Great weather brought out scores of people to enjoy the City of Seattle’s Summer Parkways event at Alki Beach on Sunday. Seal Sitters staffed a booth which featured educational materials, including seal pelts and skull. People who stopped by to talk with volunteers were fascinated to examine baleen from both a gray and fin whale. They learned that harbor seal pupping season is in full swing in South and Central Puget Sound.

Volunteers Lynn and Diana sketched marine mammal drawings in chalk on the street. The life-size outline of a 39-foot humpback whale (the size of the juvenile that stranded recently in West Seattle) drew lots attention and questions. At an art table beside the booth, children doodled bright crayons on coloring sheets with marine mammal themes.

Throughout the course of the day, Seal Sitters talked to 305 adults and children - a job well done to spread education about marine mammals, the health of our marine ecosystem and the work of the West Coast Marine Mammal Stranding Network, of which Seal Sitters MMSN is a partner. Thanks to the many volunteers who spent the day making our outreach possible.