A walking tour of Rome Point in North Kingstown’s Chafee Nature Preserve will be held Saturday.

The Providence Journal / WILLIAM K. DABY

Governor’s Bay Day: Sunday is “Governor’s Bay Day,” when parking will be free at all state beaches, and several venues will host family activities.

Westerly’s Bay Day will kick off Saturday with a music festival featuring Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Terry Sylvester (formerly of the Hollies), the Beach Bums, Black and White, and other performers on Misquamicut State Beach. Entertainment will run from 5 to 10 p.m., and will conclude with a fireworks display

Sunday’s Bay Day events include music and a rock-climbing wall at Scarborough State Beach, and sea chanteys and an 11 a.m. sand sculpture contest at Roger Wheeler State Beach, both in Narragansett. Free RIPTA bus service will be provided from various locations around the state to each beach, as well as Salty Brine State Beach in Galilee.

Rome Point hike: Local historian Tim Cranston will lead a walking tour of Rome Point, in North Kingstown’s John H. Chafee Nature Preserve, Saturday morning at 10.

Participants should be dressed and prepared for a strenuous walk. To register, call the North Kingstown Free Library at 294-3306.

South Ferry tours: Wayne and Bernice Durfee of Narragansett will lead two walking tours, today and Aug. 6, of historic South Ferry. Each 90-minute interpretive walk will begin at 10:30 a.m. from the Coastal Institute Visitor Center, on the URI Narragansett Bay Campus, South Ferry Road, Narragansett.

Included will be the old ferry landing, the World War I military bunkers, and the campus of the URI Graduate School of Oceanography, with the option of viewing South Ferry Church.

For information, call the URI Office of Marine Programs at 874-6211.

Pond cruise: Local naturalist Prentice Stout will narrate a cruise of Narragansett’s Point Judith Pond July 30, leaving at 6 p.m. from Galilee aboard the Southland. Reservations are $40, which includes a light supper, and may be made by calling South County Museum at 783-5400.

Napatree nature walks: The Watch Hill Conservancy is sponsoring Saturday morning walks to explore the flora and fauna of Napatree Point Conservation Area, at the end of Fort Road in Westerly, through Aug. 16. Each begins at 9:30; for information, call 439-9891.