(WSB photo, October 2023)
All ages are welcome next Sunday afternoon to join in drumming – and a little dancing – to call the coho home to Fauntleroy Creek. It’s an annual tradition in a courtyard just yards from the banks of the creek, and it comes as volunteers launch the Fauntleroy Watershed Council‘s count of spawners arriving in the creek. No RSVP needed, just show up at SW Director and upper Fauntleroy Way (across and upslope from the ferry dock), 4 pm Sunday, October 13.
Hope it’s a good year for the creek. There are soooo many out in the water right now.
Have they ever done an experimental year where they didn’t drum to see if the salmon would still come home? I bet they would.
Well, this is really more ceremonial and celebratory than superstitious. But since you asked, I checked our archives. In 2010, the drumming event was canceled for bad weather … and that year, no salmon showed up. (They were also a no-show in 2015, despite the fact there WAS a drumming event.) – TR
Condescending anti-Native sentiments masquerading as a rhetorical question from an anonymous person hiding behind a keyboard…probably not what this community resource is intended for.
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