Plenty of Great Outdoor Fun Scheduled for this Weekend in Southern Delaware
If you can't find anything to do during September and October in Delaware's coastal region, well then you just aren't trying. The fall festival season, which continues this weekend with five more huge events, is simply one of the best times of the year to live at or near the Delaware and Maryland beaches.
We urge you to get outside this weekend and visit one or more of the great southern Delaware festivals we're going to be featuring below. We promise, you'll have a great time!
Headlining this week is the annual Wings & Wheels Festival at the Delaware Coastal Airport near Georgetown, but other family friendly events are happening in Lewes and Rehoboth Beach. So if you live in southern Delaware, this is a fantastic weekend for you to get out and enjoy some of the best that Sussex County has to offer.
Keep reading below for everything you're going to need to know for the weekend of October 5-7 at and near the Delaware beaches.
Wings and Wheels (October 6). This fantastic local festival features, as the name suggests, a bevy of old cars and old airplanes and has become one of the highlights of the fall festival season in recent years.
Located at the Delaware Coastal Airport in Georgetown, this free Saturday event features World War II re-enactors, the United States Navy parachute team, great food, a varied selection of entertainment, craft vendors and much more.
There's no parking on the airport grounds this year, but off-site parking is available at Sussex Academy for $5 per vehicle. People movers and busses will be running beginning at 9 a.m., on a constant loop to the airport and back.
For more information on the 2018 Wings & Wheels festival, visit www.wings-wheels.com.
Boast The Coast/Coast Day (October 6-7). The 23rd annual Boast the Coast Day is scheduled for this Saturday, and is sponsored and organized by the Lewes Chamber of Commerce.
As is the custom, the event is held in association with Sunday’s Coast Day festivities, held at the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment campus in Lewes.
Boast the Coast Day will feature many great activities this year, including children's activities in 1812 Park, seafood tasting, a Cape Water Taxi tour along the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal, tours of the Lightship Overfalls, the Cannonball House and the Lewes Life-Saving Station, food vendors, and lots more.
The theme for Sunday's Coast Day festivities is "Science Serving Coastal Communities." Highlights of Sunday include an event-wide treasure hunt for answers to questions about the environment and Coast Day exhibits.
Children can also meet sea-dwelling animals, such as horseshoe crabs and dogfish sharks, at the critter touch tanks and everyone can enjoy live music, vendor displays and seafood favorites showcased by local chefs at the Crab Cake Cook-Off and the Seafood Chowder Challenge.
For more information on the 2018 Coast Day and Boast the Coast Day events, visit the Lewes Chamber of Commerce online.
Greyhounds Reach the Beach (October 6-7). Started more than 20 years ago, this unique event brings greyhounds from around the country, and their owners, together for a few days of fellowship and special events.
Many of these pooches are retired from the racing industry and were later adopted by their owners when their careers at the track were finished.
There are more than 50 vendors in the Rehoboth/Dewey area who participate in the event, so if you see a few sleek and stealth hounds at the beach this weekend, be sure to say hello.
Visit www.grtb.org for more information on this unique gathering.
