Field Trips and Workshops
Field Trips and Workshops will take place on SUNDAY of the conference. Please review the opportunities below and select your one FREE session, then if you want to, register for a second session. All sessions are $35 with supplies included in the fee. For Beach Arts classes, you might also want to bring special sea glass and beach treasures of your own to transform into wearable beach art.
Please note: Some field trips and workshops are limited to a specific number of participants. Registration is accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. To avoid disappointment, please register early.
Also, mid-November weather can be quite chilly in Delaware so for those going on field trips, be sure to pack warm clothing, boots or waterproof shoes, and hats just in case.
MORNING FIELD TRIPS
SHIPWRECK SHORES
Take a trip back in time to 17th, 18th and 19th century shipwrecks in the Delaware Bay, first with a visit to Zwaanendael Museum and then to Roosevelt Inlet Beach to beachcomb for pottery shards and sea glasss. Price includes museum donation.
Price:
$35 - 
Minimum
of 5 people. Maximum of 30.
SEA GLASS HEAVEN
One long generous stretch of public shoreline, once the site of a Victorian resort and ferry run, nowadays yields some of the best sea glass and pottery finds in the state of Delaware. Price includes transportation.
Price: $35. Minimum of 15 people. Maximum of 30.
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PIRATE BOOTY
Pirates roamed up and down the mid-Atlantic coast, wrecking their ships in inclement weather or burying their treasure on eroding barrier beaches. This field trip starts on Fenwick Island at the DiscoverSea Shipwreck Museum where you will see many of these treasures including gold ingot and doubloons, Chinese export pottery, jewelry, emerald-studded ballast and more. Afterwards, try your luck at Coin Beach to see if you, too, might be lucky enough to find a bottle stopper or pieces of eight. Price includes transportation.
Price is $35. Minimum of 15 people. Maximum of 25.
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Join Kathy Spaar, Pilgrimage Coordinator at National Cathedral in Washington D.C. for a soothing, spiritual Sunday morning on a Cape Henlopen beach. Learn to build a sand labyrinth then spend some quiet time walking it, followed by a shoreline stroll beachcombing for driftwood, shells and stones.
Price
is $35. Minimum of 4 people. Maximum of 20.
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BEACH PHOTOGRAPHY
Spend a morning on a Delaware Beach with professional photographer Megan Elyse Lloyd who will give you tips to enhance your photographic prowess in catching the beauty of sea glass, shells, ceramics and other beach artifacts.
Price: $35 (camera required)
Maximum of 10 people.
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AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS
BEACH TREASURE PHOTOS
Professional photographer, Meagan Elyse Lloyd, will teach you how best to stage and shoot beach treasures indoors .
Price: $35 (camera
required) Maximum of 10
people.
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BEACH JEWELS
Skilled jewelry designer, Selma Manizade, helps you create sea glass earrings or pottery pendant. Fee includes enough supplies to make one pendant and a pair of earrings. You may purchase more supplies if desired. Some sea glass and quartz will be provided, but feel free to bring your own favorites.
Price: $35. Maximum of 20 people._____________________________________________________________
BEACH SUSHI
Have some
fun with Dr. Beachcomb making delicious beach sushi and hor d'oeurves
platters to fool your friends. Sushi are made from a selection of
fossilized shark teeth and coral, stones, sea glass and shells.
Delectable enough to take home and serve at your next party.
(But watch out for chipped teeth!)
Price
$35. Plates included.
OYSTER SHELL FLOWERS
Skilled shell artists, Emeline McCue and her daughter, award-winning illustrator Lisa McCue Karsten, will show you how to use oyster shells to make copper-stemmed flowers (i.e. roses, gardenias and iris.) Price includes enough supplies to create at least two blooms of your choice.
Price: $35. Additional supplies are available for purchase.
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