Check out our upcoming events at The North Carolina Estuarium!

Besides our educational pontoon River Roving tours that run from spring-fall every week, we also have many events throughout the year as well! Every year, we have an End of Summer craft party on our back deck the Friday before school goes back for our local county, where we release our resident butterflies we have raised. It is called "The Bye Bye Butterfly Party"! Below are some highlights from this year, it was held on August 23rd this year. We also have events planned for National Estuaries Week 2024, as well as our annual Halloween event, The ESTU-SCARE-IUM, which will be on Thursday, October 17th. Our monthly lecture will be October 10th, the topic is ZOMBIE CRABS. More info below.

You can keep up with our events and happenings around here also on our Facebook and Instagram pages, the links for that are below!

2024 National Estuaries Week
September 21st-September 28th.

We have several events that we have planned to celebrate

our local estuary eco-system!

Click on each event poster to learn more about each event.

Join us in October for these events:

Parasites are vital members of communities, but we still have a lot to learn about their influence on hosts and other community members.

Dr. Blakeslee and her students will talk about their research on body-snatching parasites that create zombie crabs, species invasions that may carry with or leave behind parasites, and how parasites can be important conservation indicators.

One of the missions of the Blakeslee lab is to heighten awareness of the importance of parasites to ecosystems, and to demonstrate how fascinating and interesting parasites can be!

Join us on the evening of October 10th at 6 PM

in our auditorium for this informative lecture!

The North Carolina Estuarium presents:
The ESTU-SCARE-IUM

OCTOBER 17TH

The Estu-SCARE-ium will be a Halloween themed educational trick or treating event held in our exhibit hall on the evening of October 17th.

We will have different activities at different stations staggered throughout our exhibit hall for kids to complete & earn pieces of candy!

Costumes are not required but they are encouraged!

Come join in on the fun October 17th,

the cost is $3 per child, $5 per adult.

Afterwards, our educator Maggie has a special OWL PROWL program planned.

You can attend both or just the OWL PROWL, the cost is the same.

The OWL PROWL

will meet on the back deck at 7:20 pm

and starts at 7:30 pm,

and will last until 8 PM.

Come discover different owl species calls in real time

and see what other creatures we find!

2024 "Bye Bye Butterfly" Party!

A good time was had by all! We had a cookie decorating station, a temporary tattoo booth, a flutter Butterfly ring craft, butterfly themed puzzles, as well as a sidewalk chalk drawing section.

Before the night ended with our butterfly release!

Thank you to Omar's Tacos and Kona Ice for the delicious treats served also.

Stay tuned for information about the

2025 "Bye Bye Butterfly" Craft Party!