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Tropical Tidings!

Get in the holly jolly spirit on our Tropical Tidings Boat Tours! Almost every Saturday and Sunday from Dec. 6 to Jan. 3 and every day from Dec. 21 to Jan. 3!

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Love Letters to Tampa Bay

On Exhibit Now! Love Letters to Tampa Bay is 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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Homeschool Classes

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

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In The Current

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Discover More

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

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Real Stories, Real Impact

Your donation does more than restore Tampa Bay. It creates opportunities and impact for families, children and individuals across our community.

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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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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

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YOU DID IT! 🎉

Because of you we hit our matching grant goal of $32,000! That means we raised a total of $64,000 to restore the bay every day!

Your generous support will fund our restoration efforts and projects, public education programs for our

🌊 WE’VE HIT $24,000!

We are so close to our matching grant goal of $32,000! Your support has helped Tampa Bay Watch place enough oyster habitat to naturally filter more than ONE BILLION gallons on sea water on average daily!

Your donation

We are HALFWAY there! 🎉

So far you’ve helped us raise $16,000 of our $32,000 goal to help restore the bay every day. THAT’S HUGE!

Let’s keep it going! Every dollar you donate today is DOUBLED up to $32,000! 💙 That means you are

Tampa Bay Watch has been restoring the bay for more than 30 years, with more than 1.5 million square feet of shoreline restored and strengthened around our Tampa Bay estuary.

But our work is only possible because of your support. This Giving Tuesda

Did you know ❓

Tampa Bay Watch offers homeschool classes at our @tbwdiscoverycenter on the St. Pete Pier! Immersive hands-on classes add to your at-home curriculum and provide fun and wonder!

🌊 Check out our available classes by visiting the link

BLACK FRIDAY SALE! 🛍️

Get 25% OFF gift certificates purchased from 11/28-12/1 with code holidays25! Gift certificates are redeemable for ANY educational public program at Tampa Bay Watch!

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