It’s been cute and spooky around here!🎃👻🕸️
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Wishing everyone a safe and happy Halloween!

This beautiful fall weather has us yearning to explore all of the island’s beautiful properties! Luckily, we have access to Nantucket’s most knowledgeable people from a variety of different organizations.
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On Tuesday morning, Seth Engelbourg, Naturalist Educator and Program Manager at the Linda Loring Nature Foundation, took NCS staff on a guided tour of their property at 110 Eel Point Road. An abundance of wildlife calls the organization’s 275-acre parcel home, and it includes coastal heathlands, sand plain grasslands, and vegetated wetlands.
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In addition to walking the property, we also got to see and touch some artifacts along the way!
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Did you know? We partner with LLNF to offer Story Walk, a free, family-friendly activity that provides a chance to explore the trail and read a book as you walk! Spanish translation is available. Check it out from sun-up to sun-down.

Wednesday marked the beginning of the recreational scalloping season here on Nantucket, and it was only appropriate for our Little Nature Explorers group to meet this week at Little Neck beach in Madaket to learn all about scallops.
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Neil Foley, Interpretive Education Coordinator/Ecologist at the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, showed off the shellfish on part of the foundation’s 23-acre property, teaching about feeding habits, their anatomy, and how they move in the water.
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Join us and NCF this fall at various locations across the island on Tuesday mornings from 10:30-11:30am. For families with children ages birth through five years, Little Nature Explorers is just as fun for caregivers as it is for kids!
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To register for this free program, click the link in our bio, press the “All Classes” button, and scroll to Little Nature Explorers.

The Nantucket Community School team took to the water at Folger’s Marsh this past Tuesday for a kayak tour through the extensive salt marsh between Polpis Road and Nantucket Harbor.

Under the guidance of Neil Foley, Interpretive Education Coordinator/Ecologist at the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, we learned that this is a habitat for a variety of shorebird species and colonial water birds that migrate through the area to feed in the spongy peat and mud flats. Keep an eye out for egrets and herons and an active osprey nest on the property.

We are incredibly thankful to Neil and to the staff at the Egan Maritime Institute who let us utilize their property and launch our kayaks from their Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum located at the edge of the marsh. This was a fun and interactive way to learn about this valuable ecosystem, and none of this would have been possible without our island partners!

It was a perfect morning for the Swim Across America-Nantucket Island Open Water Swim!
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The annual event brings swimmers of all ages and skill levels to Jetties Beach to help support cancer treatment, cancer research, and patient care on Nantucket.
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Team Nantucket Community Pool showed up in a big way again this year, raising over $20,000 to-date! As of this morning, the Nantucket chapter has raised a record $825,000👏
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There is still time to donate! Visit the link in our bio for additional information!