Bodega Bay, CA

01/21/2026

Fish Fest Art contest happening NOW! Entries due by Friday, February 1st!!
Email Melissa for more info! [email protected]

12/27/2025

Wow!! 🌊🌊🌊

12/19/2025

Come to Bodega Bay, CA soon to view the lights at all the local businesses! Our 2nd annual "Holiday Cheer on The Coast" is happening throughout town! Come this holiday season!!
Www.visitbodegabayca.com

12/18/2025

🎨 CALLING ALL ARTISTS! 🎨
We’re getting a head start on 2026 because it’s going to be an incredible year!

The 53rd Annual Fisherman’s Festival in Bodega Bay is coming MAY 2-3, 2026 (Saturday & Sunday), and we’re thrilled to announce the theme: FISH TO DISH 🐟➡️🍽️

We’re celebrating everything from ocean to plate—enticing appetites, educating our community, and throwing a good old-fashioned festival hoedown with music, art, parades, delicious food from the sea, wine and beer booths, and fun for the whole family! Don’t miss everyone’s favorite wooden boat challenge race, Coast Guard rescue demo, and horse rides!

ART CONTEST OPEN NOW!

Your artwork will help kick off this amazing event. We want to see your creative vision of the Fisherman’s Marketing Association’s “Fish to Dish” theme!

ARTWORK SPECIFICATIONS:

📐 Original artwork should be 11 x 17 inches (in a colorful manner)

✍️ Should be signed, but masked tape or other masking method

DROP OFF LOCATION:

📍 Sonoma Coast Visitor Center, 913 Hwy. 1, Bodega Bay

🗓️ Drop off between January 2 and February 1, 2026

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 1, 2026

GRAND PRIZE INCLUDES:

💵 $500 CASH

🎟️ Two tickets to the festival (May 2-3)

👕 Honorary festival T-shirt

🌟 Your artwork featured on ALL marketing and advertising materials for the festival!

This is your chance to be part of Bodega Bay history and showcase your talent to our entire community and beyond.

Let’s make the 53rd Fisherman’s Festival one for the books! 🎣✨

12/18/2025

🌊🌞 Ginochio's Kitchen

We keep hearing its been foggy inland....come to Bodega Bay & visit us for some chowder!! Its been beautiful weather, come join us soon!

12/18/2025

The 23rd annual Bodega Bay CHOWDER DAY tickets are on SALE NOW! Get your tickets before they sell out! Click the link below to purchase tickets!!
📍Bodega Bay, Ca
🗓 Saturday, January 31st
💻 www.VisitBodegaBayca.com
Must purchase tickets online to participate!!

11/29/2025

We ❤️ Valley Ford, Ca!! Be sure to stop, shop, dine & explore in all the small towns across the Bodega Bay Area!

A Google Maps routing tweak may be responsible for more visitors.

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11/17/2025

Be sure to add the coastal town of Bodega Bay, CA to your bucketlist of places to visit in California!!! Visit California

11/10/2025

Whales!!

11/07/2025

Come out to Bodega Bay soon!

Low tide fans! Here are the best times to check low tides that are 0.0 or less if you are wandering on the Sonoma Coast, and want to check out tidepools before it gets too dark. This list is for the rest of November, December and January. King Tides at the bottom of the list. Photo by on Instagram.

November
18th at 4:09pm -0.1
19th at 4:41pm -0.2

December
2nd at 2:59pm -0.7
3rd at 3:46pm -1.3
4th at 4:34pm -1.6
16th at 3:16 0.0
17th at 3:51 -0.2
18th at 4:25pm -0.4
30th at 1:56pm -0.3
31st at 2:48pn -0.9

January
1st at 3:38pm -1.3
2nd at 4:26pm -1.6
15th at 3:31pm -0.2
16th at 4:06pm -0.4
17th at 4:9pm -0.6
28th at 1:43pm -0.4
29th at 2:39pm -0.8
30th at 3:29pm -1.1
31st at 4:15pm -1.2

Best High Tides 7.0 and higher:
December 4th at 9:10am 7.0; December 5th at 9:57am 7.0; January 2nd at 8:56am 7.0
Remaining King Tide: 2025 December 3-7th and 2026 January 1-4th.

10/24/2025

Salmon Creek Art Walk happening Nov 1st & 2nd 10am - 4:00pm!!

Come visit Salmon Creek artists in their studios and start getting ready for holiday shopping. We look forward to seeing you in our community.

10/19/2025

The 11th annual Hitchcock film festival was a success!! Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate all things Hitchcock & raise money for the Bodega Bay Grange Hall commerical kitchen remodel & local schools - Tomales High & Bodega Bay Elementary!!