Unique Experiences

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Lunch or Dinner with Jim Toomey — Creator of Sherman’s Lagoon & Ocean Activist —  in the Annapolis, Maryland / Washington, DC area

There is a lagoon called Kapupu near the island of Kapupu in the sunny North Pacific just west of the Elabaob Islands in the Palauan archipelago of Micronesia. Sherman the Shark, his wife, Megan, and a host of other lagoon occupants call it home. Occasionally the hairless beach apes with their so-called civilized human ways try to encroach on the Lagoonies tropical paradise.

For the past 18 years, Jim Toomey has been writing and drawing the daily comic strip Sherman’s Lagoon, which is syndicated in more than 250 newspapers in North America including the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Toronto Star. It also appears in more than 30 foreign countries, in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Norwegian and Swedish. Jim has completed his 17th book, Discover Your Inner Hermit Crab.

Sherman’s Lagoon combines two of his life-long passions: art and the sea. In addition to drawing his comic strip, Jim is active in marine conservation. Jim (and Sherman) enlighten and entertain, and promote shark conservation: Kapupu Lagoon and the entire ocean ecosystem depend on a healthy shark population!

The conservation messages in his comic strip earned him the Environmental Hero Award presented by NOAA on behalf of former Vice President Al Gore “for using art and humor to conserve and protect our marine heritage”. He has also contributed his comic characters and other illustrations to educational materials published by NOAA for the purpose of raising environmental awareness.

www.slagoon.com

Item Special Note

Being auctioned is dinner or lunch with one the world’s foremost shark experts or celebrities. It is a unique opportunity to “talk shark” face-to-face, one-on-one, with a real authority on sharks. 

How it works:

1. Bid on a celebrity, shark scientist or conservationist that lives or works in your area, unless you are willing to drive or fly to meet them in their area.

2. The winning bidder pays for the lunch or dinner and may bring as many guests as he or she wishes.

3. We will introduce the winning bidder to the celebrity, scientist or conservationist. The two of you then set a mutually agreeable  date, time and place to meet within one year of the close of the auction.

All winning bids are charitable contributions deductible from US Federal 2013 income taxes.  Funds raised by the auction will be used to support shark research and conservation programs.