DANA POINT : Harpooning Lessons at Whale Festival
The city’s annual Festival of the Whales will feature a special educational program for children today and Sunday that will feature harpoon-throwing lessons and sea chantey sing-alongs.
Held from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. both days, the program teaches children about life at sea during the 19th Century. Demonstrations of the daily duties of a sailor will be performed by volunteers who dress in whaling gear of the period.
The event will be held at the Pilgrim, a full-size replica of a 19th-Century trading ship that is docked at the Orange County Marine Institute in Dana Point Harbor. The institute is at 24200 Dana Point Harbor Drive, near the end of the harbor.
Kids will have the opportunity to learn harpoon-throwing techniques and visitors can listen to sea chanteys performed at the dock near the Pilgrim.
Other demonstrations of sea life will take place, including a simulated whale lung that shows how the huge ocean mammals expel water from their blow hole.
For further information, call (714) 496-2274.
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