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Announcing BLUE BARK BOAT BASH! ⛴🎉🐶

WE'RE BACK Y'ALL!!!!! The Boat Bash is a queer furry party boat on Lake Travis with music, food, booze, and SWIMMING, complete with a WATER SLIDE!!

21+ only! Limited capacity, RSVP required!
Details: tinyurl.com/BlueBarkBoat...

Missing hitting up the barkcade with @atxbluebark.bsky.social always have a blast at Austin's!

Thank you so much for the overwhelming support for our statement! What a warm welcome to Bluesky 🥰

The fear and uncertainty in the air right now only reinforces how important community is, and we're more determined than ever to keep building our community and bringing events to ATX.

Stay tuned 💙🐶

Finally, I want to share a personal note about the election, and what Blue Bark's politics are.

I hate to end our first batch of posts on a downer, but this is important to say. I want to be very clear about who we are and why we do what we do.

Love you all. 🐶💙
- @aruki.bsky.social

We're currently on a short break from hosting events, but pretty soon, we'll be back at it again!

The Boat Bash has unfortunately ended for the season... but watch for it making a comeback next summer!

The Barkade will be returning soon!

And hopefully, we'll have some cool NEW events soon too 🥰

Finally, most recently, we had our final Boat Bash of the year on 10/6/24! Then we had a special Halloween-themed Blue Barkade just a week ago, on 11/1/24, featuring our first ever costume contest!! We'll share more photos from these events sometime soon!!

📸 @maylamutt.bsky.social, Cursey

There were a LOT of great pictures from that Barkade, so have a few more! :3

📸 Smudge, @aruki.bsky.social, Luxa

The Barkade returned on 9/27/24!! 60 people turned out for this one!!

📸 @aruki.bsky.social, Latex

Our third Boat Bash happened on 9/8/24!! This one ended up being the most attended Boat Bash ever, with 42 people!! We were getting very close to packing the boat full to its max capacity of 50!

📸 Diablo, @maylamutt.bsky.social

We also had a bit of a hiccup at the Boat Bash on 8/4, which threatened to ruin the event... but it luckily only ended up lasting an hour, and let's be real, the rain didn't only NOT ruin the event, but it was a VIBE.

Blue Bark Boat Bash returned on 8/4/24! Our attendance grew to 38 this go around.

📸 @ikonowl.bsky.social, Diablo, @xxbongdawgxx.bsky.social, @aruki.bsky.social

Next, we held Blue Barkade on 7/19/24!! We ended up with a whopping 64 PEOPLE, which is an absolutely BONKERS number for us to hit on our second event ever!!!

📸 @ikonowl.bsky.social, Cursey

Photos from our very first event, Blue Bark Boat Bash on 6/23/24!!

We rented a party boat and packed it full of 36 furries and had a blast!! It was so much fun that we booked the second one IMMEDIATELY afterwards!!

📸 @ikonowl.bsky.social, @aruki.bsky.social

HELLO BLUESKY!

We're Blue Bark Events! We're a furry group based in Austin, TX run by @aruki.bsky.social !

We're all about providing a safe, inclusive queer space, and having hella fun together! In the past, we've done boat parties and arcade furmeets!

We hope to see you at an event sometime!
💙🐶