2014 Environmental Film Series

NOTICE - Road Construction 11/3 - 11/21 click to view detour map

Free film screenings on topics timely and relevant to our own Puget Sound and Salish Sea. Trail Tales will premiere a short film by young, local filmakers each night.

November 7th - FLOW

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"Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.  Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.  Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question 'CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?'  Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround."

The Pacific Biodiversity Institute leads you on a virtual expedition through some of the most amazing birding hotspots and wildlands on the planet!

Meet Trail Tale Docents and local birder, Tim Manns for a presentation about the birds who come to Fidalgo Bay for the fall and winter followed by a walk along the Tommy Thompson trail to view the birds.

Presentation: 8:30 A.M.  in the Fidalgo Bay RV Park Convention Center building

Birding Walk: 9:30 A.M.

2014 Environmental Film Series

NOTICE - Road Construction 11/3 - 11/21 click to view detour map

Free film screenings on topics timely and relevant to our Puget Sound & Salish Sea. Trail Tales will premiere a short film by young, local filmakers on Fidalgo Island subjects each night.

November 21st - The Whale - The True Story of Luna

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Synopsis: "THE WHALE tells the true story of a young, wild killer whale - an orca - nicknamed Luna, who lost contact with his family on the coast of British Columbia and turned up alone in a narrow stretch of sea between mountains, a place called Nootka Sound. Orcas are social. They live with their families all their lives. An orca who gets separated usually just fades away and dies.  Luna was alone, but he didn't fade away. There weren't any familiar orcas in Nootka Sound, but there were people, in boats and on the shore. So he started trying to make contact. And people welcomed him. Most of them.  This contact did not turn out to be simple. It was as if we humans weren't ready for him... THE WHALE celebrates the life of a smart, friendly, determined, transcendent being from the other world of the sea who appeared among us like a promise out of the blue: that the greatest secrets in life are still to be discovered."