Discover Birch Bay Days returns for 42nd year

If you’re looking for a lively weekend in Birch Bay, you’re in luck because Discover Birch Bay Days is back this weekend.

The event-filled weekend kicks off Friday, September 3 with a “Dive-in Movies” showing of the 1989 classic film, “Uncle Buck,” at the Birch Bay Waterslides. Attendees can start parking their cars at the waterpark at 7 p.m. and the movie will start around 8:15 p.m. It costs $20 for each car and popcorn is included.

On Saturday, September 4, Friends of Birch Bay Library is hosting a 10 a.m. pancake breakfast at the future Birch Bay Vogt Community Library. The chamber and Blaine-Birch Bay Park and Recreation District 2 (BBBPRD2) will host outdoor kid games and music trivia from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the future library. Wrapping up the day 1-3 p.m., the Birch Bay Chamber of Commerce will host a golf cart and bicycle poker run along Birch Bay Drive, with Loomis Trail Golf and Pete’s Poutine gift certificates awarded to winners. To register, visit bit.ly/3kGz1sT.

The last day of Discover Birch Bay Days will end on a high note with a rubber duck derby at 9 a.m. Sunday, September 5. Participants will drop ducks across from Bay Rim condominiums at 9 a.m. and watch the ducks float to the finish line at the mouth of Terrell Creek. Ten prizes will be awarded to people with winning ducks: The first three winners will receive up to $200 in “chamber bucks,” which can go toward any chamber member’s business, and an overnight vacation at Silver Reef Casino Resort; chamber bucks or a 2022 Birch Bay Waterslides family day pass. The 42nd duck will also receive $25 chamber bucks for the 42nd year of Discover Birch Bay Days and the last duck will win a Sirenz Dezignz custom cup. To purchase ducks, visit birchbaychamber.com/ducky-derby.

BBBPRD2 will host more “Dog Days of Summer” kid games from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the future Birch Bay library. The last event of the weekend will be a crab derby 12-3 p.m. at The Beach at Birch Bay bar, 7876 Birch Bay Drive. Windermere realtor Billy Brown will judge live crabs for divisions such as the heaviest individual crab and heaviest catch limit. Crabs must be caught legally to win prizes, which include Beach Cat Brewing, Loomis Trail Golf, Pacific Building Center and LFS Marine and Outdoor gift certificates, and prizes from Billy Brown.

Because of Covid-19, the chamber of commerce has canceled the parade this year and is asking people who are not fully vaccinated to wear masks, chamber executive director Danielle Gaughen said.