Bodega Marine Laboratory

Since 1976 Bodega Marine Laboratory volunteer docents have led interpretive tours for all ages.

Public Education features at BML include numerous marine aquarium displays. Upon entering BML’s West Wing, visitors experience a 24-foot-long display containing many colorful local fishes and invertebrates and a small kelp forest. Past that is a harbor aquarium, holding residents of our local estuary, Bodega Harbor. Next to that is a round aquarium that displays anemones and other organisms from our nearshore subtidal habitat. Elsewhere around the facility are smaller display aquaria featuring local and, occasionally, unique marine creatures. A tidepool mesocosm display allows visitors to experience the biodiversity and dynamic energy of the northern California coast.

Public tours are available by reservation on most Fridays from 2:00-4:00 PM for groups of less than 10 people. These tours are geared toward adults and children over the age of 12 years, though all ages are welcome. Dogs and other pets are not allowed, with the exception of service animals.