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Shells For Shorelines

Learn more about how recycled oyster shells are restoring the bay every day!

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Field Trips

School is in and so are field trips! With two locations to choose from there’s no shortage of hands-on fun when you visit Tampa Bay Watch for a field trip!

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Homeschool Classes

Tampa Bay Watch is excited to launch a brand-new marine biology unit created especially for local homeschoolers.

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Love Letters to Tampa Bay

Join us for the opening of Love Letters to Tampa Bay, a creative celebration of our region’s estuaries as sacred spaces where land, water, and life converge. Through colorful, myth-infused papier-mâché sculptures, artist Kai Tomalin honors the spirit and ecology of Tampa Bay.

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Our Mission in Action

Discover how we achieve our mission through collective action.

Multiple concrete tetrapods arranged near a body of water, used for coastal erosion protection.

Restoration

Hands exchanging a small crab at an outdoor event.

Community Outreach

A woman and young girl stand in shallow water on a sunny day, holding a net, with a boat in the background.

Education

Let’s Get Social!

Join us for Bay Babies on Thursday, Nov. 6! 🐬

Wake up your sleepy squirts and come on in for this month's Bay Babies program, Nocturnal Nature! Who wakes up in the ocean when everyone else goes to sleep? Find out all about the awesome adaptations t

🎃Happy Halloween from the TBW crew! Our awesome volunteers and staff got festive and carved some pumpkins after our volunteer ORB build yesterday.

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🌟 We are two days away! Evening for the Bay is a night of purpose, connection and passion for the place we call home. This magical night presented by Honest1 Auto Care benefits our mission to restore the bay every day. We can't wait to see everyone

🌱 Last week, students from Canterbury School planted approximately 875 smooth cordgrass plant plugs as part of the ongoing living shoreline project in collaboration with the City of St. Petersburg at Maximo Park! Afterward, they explored the area to

20 TONS! 🦪

Over our two-day restoration project at MacDill Air Foce Base, we collectively installed 20 tons of fossilized shell contributing to this important living shoreline!

💭The goal of this ongoing project is to stabilize MacDill's eroding