2025 Education Season: Recap

2025 Education Season: Recap

The 2025 education and summer camp season for Pigeon Key has come to a close! It’s been another fantastic year on the island, filled with tidepooling, snorkeling, and learning all about Florida Keys marine life. Over the course of our busy education season, we had 19...
Meet the Staff: Education Coordinator

Meet the Staff: Education Coordinator

Arianna (Ari) Binienda is the island’s new Education Coordinator for the Pigeon Key Foundation, filling the role after the previous Education Coordinator, Sarah Humphrey, stepped up to become the island’s Education Director. Arianna, a prior Education Intern for the...
Meet our 2025 Interns!

Meet our 2025 Interns!

With a new education season about to start up, we have six new interns – Ari, Hailee, Jon, Lauren, Megan, and Thomas – joining us! Read on to learn more about them and their passion for marine science! Ari was raised in Connecticut and studied Animal &...
2024 Education Season: Recap

2024 Education Season: Recap

The 2024 education and summer camp season for Pigeon Key has come to an end! It’s been another amazing year on the island filled with tidepooling, snorkeling, learning about Florida Keys marine life, and much more. Over the course of our busy education season,...
Creature Feature: Edgar!

Creature Feature: Edgar!

If you’ve been out to Pigeon Key before, you may have seen one of our fellow “residents” on the island… Edgar! He is a beloved Great White Heron. His left foot is misshapen (unknown why/how), but he can still walk and fly perfectly. He first...
HELLO YELLOW!

HELLO YELLOW!

If you’ve visited the island recently and follow us on social media, you may have noticed a few of our buildings are looking a bit brighter! We recently had our buildings repainted back to the iconic Flagler Yellow. Flagler Yellow takes its name from Henry Flagler, a...
Meet the Staff: 2024 Education Interns!

Meet the Staff: 2024 Education Interns!

A new year on Pigeon Key means new interns! Join us in welcoming our 2024 Marine Science education interns for the season: Dezi Smith, Savanna Wilkinson, Megan Tavenner, and Alaina Evinger! They will be helping out with running our marine science camps, summer camps,...
Meet the staff: Education Director

Meet the staff: Education Director

  Jill Hayden is our newest full-time staff member! She is filling in the role of Education Director, as our previous Education Director Callie has parted ways. She will miss relaxing on the dock to take in the sunsets the most. We appreciate all that Callie has...
Best Summer Camp!

Best Summer Camp!

Pigeon Key has once again been awarded Marathon’s Best Summer Camp THREE years in a row! Pigeon Key staff attended the Best of Marathon awards ceremony on September 16 to accept our award. It was a wonderful night for all, and we are entirely grateful to our...