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  • Best Of The Bay!

    We’ve been nominated for “Best Environmental Organization” for this year’s Best of The Bay and we need your vote! Vote once a day until August 20, 2025.

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  • Discover More

    Visit our Discovery Center on the St. Pete Pier to discover more!

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  • Shells For Shorelines

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

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  • Scallop Search

    Don’t miss out on the volunteer event of the season! Join us for the 30th annual Great Bay Scallop search on August 2, 2025.

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  • Evening For The Bay

    Join us for a night of connection, fun and purpose!

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  • Bay Babies

    Join us at the Discovery Center for Bay Babies August 2 at 11:00 a.m. Each session may include story time, crafts, activities, and animal interactions to keep your little one(s) engaged and excited. This program is for children 3 to 6 years of age.

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🐚 In partnership with New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in South St. Pete, the Tampa Bay Watch Education Department kicked off our second annual free pop-up camp two weeks ago! Activities throughout the weeks included seining, snork
🌱The school year is right around the corner! Which means it’s almost time for local high school and middle school students to get their hands dirty with our Bay Grasses in Classes program again! This unique program gets local students involve
🚣 Kayak the bay with us this Saturday! Enjoy a peaceful evening out on the water with our educators as they guide you through mangroves and past shorelines after launching from our Tierra Verde location. Learn all about the wildlife and enjoy sere
Did you know ❓ Tampa Bay Watch has 200+ monotubes placed around Tampa Bay. A monotube is a reciprocal where fishing line can be collected to be recycled, effectively keeping it out of our environment where it can harm marine life. 🎣 🔵 Learn more
🚨The numbers are in for our Summer Coastal Cleanup! A total of 59 volunteers collected 532 pounds of debris at two locations, Tierra Verde Bayway and Grandview Park, this past Saturday. 💙 Thank you to our volunteers and cleanup partners: City o