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Family Fun: Magical Marine Park

26th July 2022 @ 10:30 am 3rd September 2022 @ 3:30 pm

Plymouth Sound from Mt Edgcumbe

26 July 2022 to 3 September 2022, 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 3.30pm

Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays throughout the summer holidays

Plymouth is home to the UK’s first National Marine Park – a unique project designed to celebrate and promote the history, habitats and industries of the important and visually stunning Plymouth Sound. Come to The Box each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday throughout the summer holidays to discover more about it and how special it is.

Find out about the amazing environment in and around Plymouth Sound, meet some of its most inspiring organisations – and have lots of creative fun.

Throughout the summer we’ll be joined by the University of Plymouth, the Ocean Conversation Trust, South Devon AONB, Life on the Edge and Green Minds.

Drop in for as little or as long as you like. Please be aware you may have to wait a short while if the session is busy – thanks for your patience.

Activities are most suitable for children aged 4-11 and their adults. These activities will take place in our Learning Room and on Tavistock Place (subject to weather).

Free admission. No need to book.

Week 1: Ocean Animals

Tuesday 26, Thursday 28 and Saturday 30 July, 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 3.30pm

Join us and experts from the University of Plymouth to make our very own National Marine Park. Create your own ocean animals with craft materials and celebrate everything that’s great about the beautiful Plymouth Sound by making chalk drawings. Remember to look for some of the animals in our Mammoth gallery before you go home too!

Activities are most suitable for children aged 4-11 and their adults. They will take place in our Learning Room and on Tavistock Place (subject to weather).

Week 2: Perfect Pollinators

Tuesday 2, Thursday 4 and Saturday 6 August, 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 3.30pm

Did you know Plymouth’s National Marine Park is home to seagrass, the only flowering plant in the Ocean? Come and meet Green Minds, who are celebrating Love Parks Week, and make some crafty items that you can take home to inspire you to nurture wildflowers and our local pollinators.

Free. No need to book.

Week 3: Life on the Edge 

Tuesday 9, Thursday 13 and Saturday 13 August, 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 3.30pm

The creatures and plants in the sea need our help to survive but so do many of the insects that live along our coastline. Join the Life on the Edge team from South Devon AONB and Buglife, to discover the 26 endangered bugs and insects that live around the National Marine Park. Create your own Long Horned Bee or Moon Spider, make watercolours, listen to stories and help create a new planter for Tavistock Place.

Week 4 and 5: Super Seagrass

Tuesday 16, Thursday 18, Saturday 20, Tuesday 23, Thursday 25 and Saturday 27 August, 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 3.30pm

Below the waves of the National Marine Park, thousands of creatures have made their home in seagrass. Join the Ocean Conservation Trust for a printing workshop inspired by them. Put on a virtual reality headset to dive under the waves and admire seagrass up close. Learn how seagrass meadows are being revitalised and make wildflower seed balls in the shape of sea creatures.

Week 6: How Can We Help?

Tuesday 30 August, Thursday 1 and Saturday 3 September, 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 3.30pm

How can we help protect our amazing marine habitats? Come and meet Plymouth’s Preventing Plastic Pollution project team, make a jellyfish to take home and learn about reducing, reusing and recycling plastic with the help of ocean sandpit.

Find out more on The Box Plymouth website.

Tavistock Pl
Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AX United Kingdom
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Hurricane Nigel, low pressure systems in the Atlantic incoming, very high winds Sunday and on Wednesday this week (gusts predicted up to 66mph on Wednesday afternoon).

We are afraid that we will be grabbing the pontoons as and when we have a weather window.

Cattewater Harbour Commissioners will take them out one at a time, hopefully easing you into their winter storage time, but this is for the safety of the pontoons, but more importantly yourselves.

As soon as we know when they will be coming out, we will let you know, but just to give you a heads up, as much as we wanted to keep them in for as long as possible. Unfortunately the winds and swell have appeared as suddenly as autumn seems to have.

The water temperature is a balmy 16.5oC, not into cold water shock territory yet, but in the latest Plymouth Sound National Marine Park newsletter, out soon, we've written loads on staying safe whilst bobbing this autumn/winter, taking pressure off Plymouth Lifeboat Station.

We'll let you know as soon as the pontoons are coming out. But please remember if in doubt, don't go out.

Thank you

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Such beauty lies beneath the waves as captured here at Wembury by @our.worldaroundus1

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Let's face it, you don't get many better views on an evening walk than this.

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High tide at the Mayflower Steps

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Sunny skies + Plymouth Sound = Perfection 🤩

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Evening walks by the sea in Plymouth are unrivalled!

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Your contributions continue to amaze us! 🤩

Check out this sensational snapshot of the moon over Drake's Island in Plymouth Sound National Marine Park, taken by @lyzabefff

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🎉We’re excited to announce this is the week we submit the #PSNMP BID to the @heritagefunduk

THANK YOU to the people of Plymouth for your feedback and ideas, which have helped shape the delivery of this innovative project!

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A hazy but nonetheless beautiful evening beside Firestone Bay and The Sound. 🥰

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We are 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚 the gorgeous sunsets lately! ❤️

Can you see the paddleboarder in this picture taken from Devil's Point?

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