So as we play catch up, here's a look back at some of the fun we had at intersession camp. The weather held out for us during the week, a few clouds and sprinkles, but mostly nice weather. We had all sorts of adventures and explored a lot of neat places. We tried our hand at metal detecting, to see what kind of history you could find in the ground. In the process of metal detecting we figured out that an old small house on park property had burned down instead of just rotting. How did we figure that out you ask? As we were digging where a beep had sounded we found a piece of wood that was basically charcoal, so we dug more right where the house would have been and all the wood that we dug up was charcoal. So it seems that it had burned. Our discoveries included, old nails, old cans, metal roofing materials, large metal squares (quite heavy) and some old electrical workings. Of course we left everything that we found, but it was neat to uncover some of the past of the park.
Of course this is a nature camp so we looked for different flora and fauna as we wandered through the park. Here are some pictures of a few things we found:
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| Goldfinch |
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| Small turtle |
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| Inchworm |
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| Pinxter |
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| Bluets |
The pictures above are only some of the nature discoveries that we made. We also helped nature out a little by cutting back a lot of wisteria. Such a nice flower, but such an aggressive invasive. The kids felt really good about helping out the trees that were soon to be overtaken by the wisteria. This is just part of the fun we had during intersession camp. We are now looking forward to summer camp. More updates of past programs soon.
