2020 Polar Bear Plunge

Rocky Point Recreation Area, Oak Harbor  -- Come out and celebrate the new year with us! FREE! FREE S'mores & Drinks! PRIZES! FREE blankets for the first 125 at the event! GROUP PLUNGE at Rocky Point Recreation Area: 10:15 am Registration deadline is Friday, Dec. 27 at the NASWI Fitness Center or with myFFR #610226 […]

Polar Bear Plunge

Double Bluff Beach, Freeland   --- $15  ---- Some things are just done without reason, and well, here’s exhibit “A” – the Polar Bear Plunge. This “charge” into the new year takes place mid-day at Freeland’s Double Bluff Beach. Well-wishers, family, friends, and total strangers will have a great time marveling at the display of […]

Hike: Interpreting Fort Casey

Fort Casey State Park  -- Start the New Year with a healthy hike.  Many of our state parks have organized hikes to give people a smart, fun, and healthy way to start 2020. It’s also a “free day,” when a Discover Pass is not required to visit a state park. Name of trail:  Battery Loop […]

Hike: Exploring Fort Casey

Fort Casey State Park  -- Start the New Year with a healthy hike.  Many of our state parks have organized hikes to give people a smart, fun, and healthy way to start 2020. It’s also a “free day,” when a Discover Pass is not required to visit a state park. Name of trail:  Battery Loop […]

Snowing Ice Cream with The Harmonica Pocket

Freeland Library  -- Put on a cozy hat and celebrate the magic of winter with books, ukuleles and silly-sweet seasonal songs about snowmen, warm woolen mittens, and ice cream falling from the sky. Families with kids are invited to learn finger plays, sing-alongs, and to wiggle and giggle with catchy tunes about snowmen, warm woolen mittens, and ice cream falling from […]

Get-Well Cards for Hospitalized Kids

Coupeville Library  -- Drop in and make a card for kids who are in a hospital. Library staff will mail them after the program. The program starts with a short video with guidelines and suggestions to spur creativity. Materials will be provided. No registration is necessary. For ages 6 and up.

Sea Float Scramble

Langley  -- It’s a treasure hunt and to the quickest go the prize! It’s a Langley tradition as the you and the young-at-heart dash for hand blown glass balls at Langley’s Seawall Park. You hear the words, “On your mark, get set, Go!” and you’re off to find your treasure a beautiful glass orb courtesy […]

Tingstad & Rumbel Twelfth Night Concert

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, Langley  -- Northwest favorites Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel perform their annual Twelfth Night concert at WICA. Tickets and information: www.wicaonline.org

Meet the Artist: David Sharpe

Penn Cove Gallery, Coupeville  -- Photographer David Sharpe will be at Penn Cove Gallery with some of his photographic equipment. David is known primarily for his landscape and scenic work, but is constantly exploring new goals and new styles including surrealism and whimsical scenes by blending elements of images into a new reality.

Vision Collage for 2020

Second Hand Booty, Clinton  -- Join us for this creative yet meditative adventure into the art of collage-specifically focused on seeding the hopes and dreams you want to manifest in 2020. All materials provided or bring your own. Create your own cards that serve as visual representations of the themes you wish to bring into the New Year.