Happy World Turtle Day! Remember to take what you bring to the beach, back with you when you leave 🐢 #WorldTurtleDay #seaturtles #ThursdayThoughts #TurtleDay Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance @MKEI_NWFSC

Across the Gulf, nonprofits are working to restore coastal ecosystems. One of our friends from Texas - Michael Niebuhr, Habitat Restoration Coordinator for the Galveston Bay Foundation - visited CBA yesterday to help with shell pickup and check out our #livingshorelines!   #florida

Setting up the exploration station at Liza Jackson Park! Students wade in the shallows to search for native, aquatic species as part of their end-of-year field trip. #nature #florida #education

Today we held our last day of Grasses in Classes field trips at Lincoln and Ross Marler Parks! We want to sincerely thank the teachers, volunteers, AmeriCorps NWF Environmental Stewards, and students for their hard work throughout the entire year #nature #livingshoreline #florida

Our rain garden pitcher plants are looking beautiful! #florida #garden #nature

Sometimes the best way to study native species is to use a cast net! Photo by Sean murphy #nature #florida

Don’t forget to BYOC! Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance

Looking for a new volunteer opportunity! Work with CBA to combat invasive plant species! #florida #volunteer #coastaldunelakes

The Choctawhatchee Bay - a bird's eye view! #nature #florida

In June, CBA gave away a door prize at the FWB Chamber First Friday Breakfast. As part of the new #Coffee Cup Challenge, all participants who brought their own re-usable coffee cups were entered to win a beach essentials bag! Over 50 brought their own cups. #sustainability

Our living shoreline grasses are thriving at Cessna Park in Walton County! #nature #florida #livingshorelines

A swallowtail  butterfly emerging from its cocoon on our South Walton Campus! #butterfly #nature #florida

Our monitoring team headed to the Okaloosa Island area of Gulf Islands National Seashore today to study aquatic #seagrass! #florida #nature

Recycled oyster shells are bagged with marine grade mesh and ready to be built into a living shoreline! #oyster #nature #florida

Up to 85% of commercially and recreationally important fish and shellfish species spend at least part of their life cycle in an estuary like Choctawhatchee Bay. #estuariesforlife #cbaforthebay #nature

Customs agent: ...and what were you doing in Canada? Me: I was on a birding trip Agent: /laughs Me: Why are you laughing? Agent: Because you’re young. We’ve still got work to do folks!

Collegiate High School at Northwest Florida State College braves the #heatindex to bag fossilized shell. These bags will become part of one of our future #livingshorelines on #ChoctawhatcheeBay! #EnvironmentalEducation #TakeFlight Northwest Florida State College Collegiate High-Northwest Florida State College

Yesterday was Monday Funday! ohana_institute students planted sea oats to restore dune habitat as part of CBA's partnership with Henderson Beach State Park. Students also learned about marine debris and pollution… instagram.com/p/B2OknNoA4dz/…