Volunteers (l-r) Broadkill Beach residents Cathy McCarthy and Donna Bailey and Pickering Beach resident Nancy Lawson help set up the DuPont Nature Center in preparation for its Wednesday, April 1 opening. BY MADDY LAURIA
Polytech High School students Tyler Coburn, left, and Sarah Wilkins, both 17, spent a Saturday afternoon helping prepare the DuPont Nature Center for its April opening. BY MADDY LAURIA
In just over a month, tens of thousands of horseshoe crabs will flock to Delaware Bay beaches to spawn. The DuPont Nature Center provides opportunity to view these ancient creatures, as well as the shorebirds that follow. BY MADDY LAURIA
Volunteers at the DuPont Nature Center are working on a new touch tank that will allow visitors to get close to some Delaware Bay natives, such as horseshoe crabs, diamondback terrapins and fish. BY MADDY LAURIA
The Delaware Bay is home to the largest population of Atlantic horseshoe crabs in the world, a species that is at the center of education and activities at the DuPont Nature Center. BY MADDY LAURIA
Volunteers (l-r) Broadkill Beach residents Cathy McCarthy and Donna Bailey and Pickering Beach resident Nancy Lawson help set up the DuPont Nature Center in preparation for its Wednesday, April 1 opening. BY MADDY LAURIA
Polytech High School students Tyler Coburn, left, and Sarah Wilkins, both 17, spent a Saturday afternoon helping prepare the DuPont Nature Center for its April opening. BY MADDY LAURIA
In just over a month, tens of thousands of horseshoe crabs will flock to Delaware Bay beaches to spawn. The DuPont Nature Center provides opportunity to view these ancient creatures, as well as the shorebirds that follow. BY MADDY LAURIA
Volunteers at the DuPont Nature Center are working on a new touch tank that will allow visitors to get close to some Delaware Bay natives, such as horseshoe crabs, diamondback terrapins and fish. BY MADDY LAURIA
The Delaware Bay is home to the largest population of Atlantic horseshoe crabs in the world, a species that is at the center of education and activities at the DuPont Nature Center. BY MADDY LAURIA
Volunteers at the DuPont Nature Center are gearing up for the 2015 season, which will include a new touch tank and plenty of opportunities to observe Delaware Bay creatures in their habitat.
Local volunteers with Polytech High School and the Alliance of Bay Communities visited the center March 15 to help set up equipment and get ready for the animals – including diamondback terrapins and young horseshoe crabs – to return to their tanks.
The center will reopen to the public Wednesday, April 1. Since its opening in May 2007, more than 75,000 people have visited the center, which also hosts numerous school groups, youth clubs and conservation organizations.
Upcoming events at the DuPont Nature Center include volunteer training from 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, April 8, and 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, April 25; an Earth Day celebration from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, April 18; and the sixth annual Peace, Love and Horseshoe Crab Festival from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, May 16.
The DuPont Nature Center is a Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Division of Fish & Wildlife facility at the Mispillion Harbor Reserve. Spring and summer hours will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday, April 1 through Aug. 30. Hours in September will be limited to 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays and Sundays. The center is located at 2992 Lighthouse Road, near Slaughter Beach, east of Milford.
For more information, call 302-422-1329, email center director Dawn Webb Cox at dawn.cox@state.de.us or go to www.dupontnaturecenter.org.
Volunteers (l-r) Broadkill Beach residents Cathy McCarthy and Donna Bailey and Pickering Beach resident Nancy Lawson help set up the DuPont Nature Center in preparation for its Wednesday, April 1 opening. BY MADDY LAURIA
Polytech High School students Tyler Coburn, left, and Sarah Wilkins, both 17, spent a Saturday afternoon helping prepare the DuPont Nature Center for its April opening. BY MADDY LAURIA
In just over a month, tens of thousands of horseshoe crabs will flock to Delaware Bay beaches to spawn. The DuPont Nature Center provides opportunity to view these ancient creatures, as well as the shorebirds that follow. BY MADDY LAURIA
Volunteers at the DuPont Nature Center are working on a new touch tank that will allow visitors to get close to some Delaware Bay natives, such as horseshoe crabs, diamondback terrapins and fish. BY MADDY LAURIA
The Delaware Bay is home to the largest population of Atlantic horseshoe crabs in the world, a species that is at the center of education and activities at the DuPont Nature Center. BY MADDY LAURIAEvent Details :
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