HallowMarine celebration

Trick or treat! Loggerhead Marinelife Center (LMC) is hosting its second annual, campuswide HallowMarine celebration on Saturday, October 28 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. HallowMarine will feature a range of family-friendly activities like sustainable trick-or-treating, animal enrichment and feeding talks, discovery shows, junior veterinary labs, and visits with the sea turtle patients!

Come dressed in your favorite Halloween costume and score bonus points for ocean-inspired outfits! The Center will decorate the sea turtle tanks with floating pumpkins and offer an enrichment feeding activity for its different ecosystem exhibits. At 11 a.m., join the LMC team to watch the animals enjoy a Halloween-themed pumpkin treat!

The Center will have multiple trick-or-treat locations at doors that are decorated with 100% recycled materials. LMC representatives will be passing out sustainably sourced candy to tricker-or-treaters. For snacks or beverages, the Tortuga Café will be open until 3 p.m.

Locals can get into the spirit of conservation all monthlong with LMC’s Unwrap the Waves. Unwrap the Waves is a conservation program for Title I schools in Palm Beach and Martin counties to collect and recycle candy wrappers. The initiative not only ensures students and community members have access to recycling, but also raises awareness around the large-scale, single-use waste produced on Halloween. Last year, 755,023 candy wrappers were recycled.

To encourage students to think sustainably this season, LMC has created an Unwrap the Waves competition between 35 participating schools. The winning school will be selected based on the number of students involved, leadership and parental involvement, community efforts, creative content, and the number of wrappers collected. The winning school will also get the unique honor of naming one of LMC’s sea turtle patients!