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Kids Resources - Websites, Books, and Places to Visit

The Creature Feature will help you learn more about estuary plants and animals. Please be patient, this is a large file and may take a long time to download.

Here's a link to our local North Cascades National Park where you can journey into the North Cascades Ecosystem. Through scientific exploration you will see how water and animals connect the watershed to Padilla Bay and the Salish Sea.

Try these great estuary songs recorded by Glen Alexander and Luke Hansen:

Three Little Salmon, adapted from the song by Saxie Dowell

Bivalve Bash, adapted from the traditional Barnyard Dance

Something I Don't Know, adapted from Eisler on the Go, lyrics by Woody Guthrie andmusic by Billy Bragg

Mud O-D Bay, adapted from Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding and Steve Cropper

Padilla Bay Food Chain Song, adapted from the traditional Green Grass Grows all Around

The Geoduck Song, written by Ron Konzak and Jerry and Judy Elfendahl

Tide Zone, adapted from All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir by Bill Staines

Salish Sea, by Holly Arntzen

Treat Me Good, adapted from Steppin Razor by Peter Tosh

Octopus' Garden, by the Beattles