FRIENDS OF SEBASTIAN INLET STATE PARK, INC.
VERO BEACH, FLORIDA

FRIENDS OF SEBASTIAN INLET STATE PARK? Basically we are a group of really nice people, just like you, who love, support and help to preserve Sebastian Inlet State Park. So what does that translate to in real life language? Well, we run the gift shops and help to support the park in various ways. If you are a volunteer, it is the Friends who pay for your uniforms, name tags, hour pins, and hats. We are also the ones who pay for the volunteer appreciation luncheons. For the park, the funds generated from gift shop sales go to whatever the current needs of the park are. We exist to help the park sustain an excellent record of visitor satisfaction, while having a few laughs along the way. Thanks for the time and effort you already give to help support this beautiful park and please come to visit us, we’d love to see you! Florida Tech University students from Melbourne, Florida came to Sebastian Inlet State Park to make a different and they sure did! Park staff cut woody plants in the dune area near the north jetty. The Florida Tech students hauled these plants, mostly sea grapes, a long distance and then loaded them into a one ton dump truck. They filled 15 dump truck loads in three hours! That is a dump truck load every 12 minutes including drive time. The students were amazing and under the wonderful leadership of Lexi Miller. Lexi did a safety talk and provided water, gloves and safety glasses. This work helped improve our dune habitat for the southeastern beach mouse and nesting shorebirds. Project A.N.T. Member Conner Wagner put this student work day all together.