We're Thankful for YOU.

We hope you’re spending today beached somewhere cozy, hooting and hollering with friends and family, gobbling your free-range turkey, Tofurkey and/or sustainably harvested kelp compote—not reading this blog. However, if you do find yourself in this charming little corner of cyberspace at this very moment, we have a very special message, just for you:

Thanks for letting your lawn languish in the drought. Thanks for letting your car accumulate an impressive grit-and-grime layer. Thanks for saying hi to the seahorses at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium. Thanks for liking even the most boring, nerdy Facebook posts and retweeting the corniest memes that ever graced the internet. Thanks for donating $10, $20, $1,000—or just your Saturday morning. Thanks for caring about climate change, even though it’s scary.

Thank you for inspiring us to work harder for the ocean, coast and watersheds, every single day.

As a token of our gratitude, we’d like to let you turkeys in on a fishy little secret…

You’ll receive FREE admission to our Santa Monica Pier Aquarium next week if you mention the top-secret password below! This offer is good from Tuesday, December 2, through Sunday, December 7. We’re open Tuesdays through Fridays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Please note that the SMPA is closed on Mondays.

Thanks, readers, for being part of the Heal the Bay family. We hope you enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday, and we look forward to seeing you at the Aquarium next week—even though we don’t have any turkeyfish currently on exhibit.

Warmest regards,

Heal the Bay

P.S. — If you see a wild turkeyfish, do not eat. 

Elephant seal photo by Ian Parker