**This event is offsite

Join us at the Cadboro Bay Festival — a celebration of ocean recreation and sustainability.

Mark your calendars for the 2025 Cadboro Bay Festival! This great event celebrates ocean recreation and sustainability. Cadboro Bay sees pleasure craft moorage, recreational ocean rentals and families swimming and playing on the beach. It’s an important historical village site for the Songhees Nation, an active migratory bird sanctuary, and somewhere in the depths of the Bay lurks the Cadborosaurus. Join us at Cadboro Bay for a day filled with live music, community drumming, delicious food, captivating storytelling, engaging kids' crafts, and informative interactive booths! Connect with ocean sports enthusiasts, learn about marine wildlife and discover how you can enjoy and support our oceans. Don't miss out on this exciting event celebrating our oceans and community!

When: Sunday August 10, 2025, 11:00am - 3:00pm
Where: Cadboro-Gyro Park

Cadboro Bay Festival

Create your own fish fashion!

Be sure to bring along:

1. A pillow case, cloth bag or t-shirt (or purchase a t-shirt or bag, $7.00. from the Centre)

2. $2 for fabric paint

3. Your creativity

Details:

• Fish molds provided

• Suitable for all ages

• Children must be accompanied by an adult

• No registration required

• Standard admission rates apply; memberships and annual passes accepted

Nature Sm-ART

ADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Date & time: August 14, 9:30 - 12:30
Registrant MAX: 12
COST: $62.00* 
Ages: 8-11

Campers will explore the diversity of marine life through observations and art.

Plant and animal life, both inside and outside the Centre, will be observed and recorded through different drawing and art techniques.

• *This camp includes a take-home journal (Retail: $15.00).

• This camp includes exploring time within the Centre.
  

  REGISTER HERE

Create your own fish fashion!

Be sure to bring along:

1. A pillow case, cloth bag or t-shirt (or purchase a t-shirt or bag, $7.00. from the Centre)

2. $2 for fabric paint

3. Your creativity

Details:

• Fish molds provided

• Suitable for all ages

• Children must be accompanied by an adult

• No registration required

• Standard admission rates apply; memberships and annual passes accepted

Tot Tuesdays (October through April)

*RETURNS OCTOBER 7

Tuesdays 10:30am–11:15am

Bring your preschooler to the Centre for a morning of fun! Parents and preschoolers are invited to join our educators on Tuesday mornings at 10:30am for special ocean-themed stories, crafts and activities. A new topic is explored every week, from Squishy Squids to Turtle Time and more!

• Suitable for ages 3–5

• Children must be accompanied by an adult

• No registration is required however numbers will be limited due to physical space

• Standard admission rates apply; Annual Passes and memberships accepted

• Themes listed below are subject to change

Fall 2025 Themes coming soon