Heated year-round gathering spaces for classes, events, and community building. Comfortable, safe, and inclusive ADA compliant restrooms, showers, and changing stalls. Adaptive watercraft and equipment to ensure water access for all. Improved sustainability for the health of Bellingham Bay and the Salish Sea. The CBC is serving as the lead agency for a three-year Snow to Sea program for underserved studentsl, coordinating community partnerships to allow students to follow water molecules from Mount Baker through the watershed to Bellingham Bay, nurturing greater ecological understanding, and sense of place.
We hosted and counting Wild Women on the Water participants in collaboration with Shifting Gears for the purpose of empowering women and developing an inclusive community for all skill levels. The CBC was able to serve 81 Whatcom County young people, including one who joined our youth internship program the following year. We hosted over Shuksan Middle School students, many of whom were on Bellingham Bay for the first time! We paddle on the bay, explore tidepools, conduct marine experiments, and learn about invasive species, bioaccumulation, and water quality.
In , we provided programming hours to individuals, and yet there was more demand than we could fulfill. A recent intern is presenting her findings at an Algea Symposium in Rhode Island. Phase one will conclude with the completion of the Wheelhouse Building and the utility work.
The Wheelhouse building is set to be ready when we open for the season! See our progress below! We will deliver new tools of impact, including adaptive equipment to better serve community members with physical disabilities and upgrade to electric safety boats to eliminate fossil fuels from our operations.
By that time we expect to fulfill our dream to have a fully accessible campus, dock, and fleet! Expanding Horizons. Comfortable, safe, and inclusive ADA compliant restrooms, showers, and changing stalls Adaptive watercraft and equipment to ensure water access for all Improved sustainability for the health of Bellingham Bay and the Salish Sea.
