Tag: Amelia Island Events
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Right Whale Week 2025: Where to Go!
Right Whale Week 2025! October 24 – November 2, 2025 Organized by the Amelia Island Whale Ambassadors Celebrate the return of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whales to their winter calving grounds, right here off Amelia Island! Local businesses are participating in Right Whale Week 2025 to help promote awareness of the return of Read more
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Scientist on Vacation- AIS and Lighthouses
Scott and Phyllis Rowley traveled to New England this summer to investigate the history of whale oil used in our Amelia Island lighthouse. During a visit to the Woods Island Lighthouse in Maine and Sapelo Island Lighthouse in Georgia, Scott discovered AIS StationKeepers installed in their lighthouse towers. He was able to share some of Read more
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Participate in Right Whale Week 2025!
Right Whale Week 2025 October 24, 2025 – November 2, 2025 Organized by the Amelia Island Whale Ambassadors Celebrate the return of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whales to their winter calving grounds, right here off Amelia Island! We are asking local businesses for their participation in Right Whale Week to help promote awareness Read more
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Amelia Island Whale Ambassadors Wins Most Unique Float in 2025 Shrimp Festival Parade!
2025 Shrimp Festival Kick-off The annual Shrimp Festival in Fernandina Beach celebrated their 60th year with the theme, “Diamonds are a Shrimp’s Best Friend!” On May 1st, the Amelia Island Whale Ambassadors and their 30 foot whale arrived all dolled up in diamonds, ready to walk the parade route! A 30 foot whale swimming down Read more
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Right Whale Baby Shower and Celebration 2025!
Who doesn’t love a baby shower? Especially for one of the world’s BIGGEST babies!?! The Amelia Island Whale Ambassadors celebrated the season’s North Atlantic right whale babies at our Right Whale Baby Shower and Celebration on April 10, 2025 at the Florida House Inn. Each year, North Atlantic right whales migrate south to the warmer Read more
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Right Whale Mosaic on the Beach on Amelia Island
When you think about ways to engage the community in a cause that is near and dear to your heart, what better way than to use art? And even better, using art that the public can be involved in creating! On January 25, 2025, Laurie Holton led a group of whale enthusiasts in an art Read more
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Celebrating Fernandina’s Bicentennial: AIWA presents Fernandina’s Right Whales- A Historical Perspective
Amelia Island Whale Ambassadors gathered at Story and Song Bookstore and Bistro on September 7, 2024 to celebrate Fernandina’s upcoming Bicentennial. A historical presentation about right whales in our area dating back 200 years was a reason to gather together to celebrate our city’s history and the history of the North Atlantic right whale. When Read more
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Get Involved in Right Whale Week!
Right Whale Week is coming up from October 25, 2024 to November 3, 2024 in Nassau County, Florida. The Right Whale Festival will be the big event to finish up the week at Main Beach Park on Amelia Island on November 2-3. Right Whale Week is happening to celebrate the return of the critically endangered Read more
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Amelia Island Whale Ambassadors “Talking Whale” at the Wild Amelia Nature Festival
Let’s talk whale! Eco-Expo The Wild Amelia Nature Festival’s Eco-Expo was held on Amelia Island’s Main Beach Park on Saturday, May 18, 2024. The Amelia Island Whale Ambassadors were excited to participate in the event with an exhibit. Many other environmental groups were present at the event. We were honored to have the opportunity to Read more