Reptile Fest Returns to Oxbow Meadows this Saturday

April 23, 2015

COLUMBUS, Ga.— Reptile Fest, one of the most popular events at Columbus State University’s Oxbow Meadows Environmental Learning Center, returns this Saturday, April 25, with a full slate of educational and entertaining activities planned.

The day’s lineup begins at 10 a.m. and will include an alligator feeding, crafts, rock climbing, face painting and hands-on encounters with tortoises, docile snakes and other reptiles.

Visitors are asked to come dressed as a reptile to compete in the Hiss America Costume Contest, which begins at 1 p.m. Following the contest, Kerstin Motsch, an environmental educator and park technician for Oxbow Meadows, will host a live reptile show from 2-3 p.m. The show for early arrivers begins at 10:30 a.m.

Reptile Fest will be held rain or shine at the learning center located on 3535 South Lumpkin Road. Admission is $5 and free for children age 3 and under. For more information, call 706-507-8550 or visit http://oxbow.columbusstate.edu/.

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