Casting about for something fantastic to do tomorrow? Do you love fish – the kind that swim, not the kind on your plate. Or perhaps you prefer turtles? Or have an aversion to water and prefer yoga, which can also be combined with eating.
You are in luck. Because Saturday, June 20 is the Yonkers Riverfront Summer Kickoff Festival, where you can flood your weekend with joy, at Habirshaw Park, 35 Alexander St. The festival runs from 11am to 4 pm.
Where to start? Well, there’s the fish. Around this time of year, many species return from the ocean and come upriver. Thus it makes perfect sense of hold a Fish Migration Celebration, 11 am to 12:30 pm. This includes a ceremony, a flotilla of fish boats in the river, puppets and a fish parade. You will never go to Red Lobster again.
The party has barely gotten started at that point. There will be free kayaking, standup paddle boarding, canoes, a lecture about oysters, fish seining (we hear their fish are in sein), art, games. Oh, and don’t forget. Turtles. There’s a rumor that one of them is 100 years old.
All this is a production of the Yonkers Paddling and Rowing Club, the Hudson River Riders, and the Beczak Environmental and Education Center.
Come one. Come all. Beware the white whale.
