About the event

SeaFest is a celebration of the sea and the amazing variety of creatures that live there. Activities will include:

• - Sustainable seafood tasters (10:30 - 4)
• - Live rockpool creatures from Maryport Aquarium (10 - 3:30)
• - Sea shanties (1 - 3:30)
• - RNLI lifeboat launch (1:30)
• - Watersports tasters (11 - 4)
• - Creating a marine litter mosaic (all day)
• - Making sea glass necklaces (all day)
• - Marine fossils (all day)
• - A beach clean (all day).
• - A scavenger hunt (all day)
• - Sand art by the fantastic Simon Wheatley
• - Performances by the La'al Collective (12 and 2:30)
• - Guided rockpooling (10 - 12)
• - Seagrass stall (all day)
• - Marine discovery zone (all day)

We will of course be holding our annual sand sculpture competition. Tickets for this should be booked in advance at Sand Sculpture Competition Tickets, Sat, Aug 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite and a £3 donation per entry is requested. Prizes have generously been donated by Maryport Aquarium, Ravenglass and Eskdale Steam Railway, The Beacon Museum, Coniston Launch, Keswick Launch, and Florence Paintmakers.

The festival itself is a drop-in event so you can turn up any time between 10 - 4 without booking. However, if you would like to receive a reminder of this festival a few days in advance, please book tickets below.

To visit the Facebook page for the event, go to Seafest | Facebook.