Celebrate the Irish Sea at Port William Carnival Week. The Irish Sea separates the English, Irish, Northern Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Manx from each other but it also connects us all. A festival of nature is bringing everyone together in celebration of the Irish Sea. The first ever Irish Sea Day will have a joyous chain of events surrounding the 17,763 square miles of water to celebrate its wildlife and the communities that live and work around it.
The Scottish celebration will take place on August 5 to coincide with the Port William Carnival Week in collaboration with the Solway Firth Partnership and Scottish Wildlife Trust running from 10am to 4pm. Join us at Kings Green Campsite, Port William to discover the weird and wonderful washed up by the sea. We will be joining the Captain Paul Watson Foundation for a beach clean at 10am and will have a display of natural treasures and plastic finds that have travelled from far and wide. We will also have a display of seaweeds and a free seaweed identification guide. At 2pm we will join the BeePositive DG8 on a bioblitz to find and records as much wildlife as we can find on the shore. The Scottish Wildlife Trust Living Seas Team will be there with a stall where you can learn more about the Irish Sea and the work being done to protect it and visitors will be able to put their hopes and wishes for the protection of the Irish Sea onto decorative paper fish to create a school of “wish fish” to be used to lobby for more protection for wildlife. Can’t make it in person? You can put your wish on our virtual map.
