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The Bodega Bay community will host its 45th Annual Fisherman’s Festival. The Festival is packed with events for people of all ages – craft booths, live music, good food, entertainment and more. A favorite attraction is the wine tasting booth featuring more than 25 Sonoma County wines and a beer booth with several local ales.…

Mar 31, 2018 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM A great opportunity to join naturalist Laura Morgan for a Wildflower Hike on Sonoma Coast. Park in the lot just south of Shell Beach, off Carlevaro Way, at 10 AM. The hike will go up to 3 miles north, to Blind Beach. Participants can hike as far…

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Spud Point was again the "People's Choice" winner in the 2018 Chowder Day event in Bodega Bay. The "Critic's Choice" this year was Bluewater Bistro. Chowder Day Bodega Bay Area Chamber of Commerce Event. Photos Copyright John Hershey. The COMPLETE results and winners of this year's Chowder Day event can be found ---> HERE.

AN AVIAN HOSPITAL WAS BUILT ON THE SET. Through a meticulous positive reinforcement process, animal handler Ray Berwick trained hundreds of live birds for use in Hitchcock’s movie. Most of these were wild-caught crows, ravens, seagulls, and sparrows. Berwick oversaw an entire bird-wrangling team whose members spent a huge amount of time corralling their feathered…

Sport abalone diving in Northern California, a tradition going back generations, will not be allowed next year in the region because biologists say the state’s population is on the brink of collapse. Thursday’s decision came at a meeting of the California Fish and Game Commission in San Diego after a warning from scientists at the…

The start of the recreational Dungeness crab season in California marks one of the busiest sport fishing days of the year in Bodega Bay, where campgrounds are full and people from all over California jostle for position at boat launches. “People get crab fever,” said Rick Powers, owner of Bodega Bay Sport Fishing Center who…

Paddling from Ocean Cove on the Sonoma Coast north of Jenner, the kayak pulled a lure through the murky green water in hopes a Chinook salmon running to its natal stream would first latch onto the steel morsel. Out of the cove, about a mile to the northwest, the treeless and windswept Salt Point State…

As acrid smoke billowed toward her Sonoma home this week, Annabelle Davis scooped up her beloved Labrador, “Shy,” and a few other belongings. But instead of fleeing to an emergency shelter, she sought refuge at a sparkling, quiet beach tucked away in a county park about an hour west. “The air was so thick everywhere else,”…

Online Bidding Closes Oct 11, 2017 12:00 PM PDT Make your bid HERE, Do you want the good news or the bad news first? How about both at once: There are now more endangered white abalone in tanks at the University of California at Davis Bodega Marine Lab than remain in the wild. While this…

"Here, let me draw you a map," said Sonoma Coast vintner Nick Peay. I had mentioned the maps I had for Fort Ross-Seaview AVA did not provide the detail I had hoped for in a region made up of some paved, and some unpaved roads. Wine people love maps. Of all the -ographys and -ologies…

Top Democratic Party leaders, environmentalists and fishermen Wednesday gathered in a show of united opposition to President Donald Trump’s order to review and potentially open up federal marine sanctuaries off the California coast to new oil and gas drilling. Legislators, including House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, Rep. Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, and…

Bodega Bay Community Center 2255 Highway 1 Bodega Bay, CA Sep 16, 2017 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM $20 to show your car, $5.00 Admission to the public Cruisin’ the Coast…a Beachy Car Show, is coming back to Bodega Bay! This fun fundraiser will feature groovy cars of all types. There will be live music,…

If you want to go fishing in California, you must buy a fishing license, except if you go fishing next Saturday, Sept. 2, which has been declared a “free fishing day” by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. All other fishing regulations, such as bag and size limits, gear restrictions, report card requirements, fishing…