SEQUIM — The three-day Dungeness River Festival wraps up today with an exhibit of art made from nature.
Admission is free to the festival, which is at the Dungeness River Audubon Center in Railroad Bridge Park at 2151 W. Hendrickson Road from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Although most events were Friday and Saturday, today is the final day of a display of driftwood sculptures.
The Olympic Driftwood Sculptors are celebrating the group’s third anniversary with the exhibit of pieces of wood found in the forests and on beaches that have been honed to a polish and mounted as display pieces.
“Spirit of the Olympics,” a collaborative piece by group members, will be raffled today.
The annual river celebration was marked this year by an unusual number of salmon negotiating the river, river center educator Powell Jones has said, adding that park personnel have seen “thousands.”
Visitors can spot the salmon from the bridge at the park.
The river, which descends 7,300 feet from the Olympic Mountains, nurtures four species of salmon.
During the earlier two days, the festival offered river walks, storytelling by Elaine Grinnell of the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe, music and activities such as fish printing and Animal Olympics.
To find out more about the Dungeness River Festival and other river center activities throughout the year, visit www.DungenessRiverCenter.org or phone 360-681-4076.
