Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Advanced Naturalists

We just wrapped up our final week of summer camp, and everyone had a great time!

Here are some highlights from the week:


On Tuesday we made our own shelters from ropes, ponchos, stick, and whatever else we could find.





We also found a friendly snake in the creek!



On Wednesday we spent some time with the bees.


Everyone tried their hand at de-capping part of the hive.



We even got to bottle our own bear of honey!



On Thursday we made our way up to Bena Brook to explore the geology of the area.





We made a few friends along the way...





Some of us were fortunate to receive the Bena Brook Spa Treatment!



On Friday we started our day looking at how creeks and river are formed by experimenting with the Stream
Table.


We then made it down to our very own Cedar River to explore the shallows created by the drought.






In the afternoon we visited Indian Creek, where we had spent a lot of time this week.



We saw lots of neat things!


We even got to play in our swimming hole one last time!



What a wonderful a end to the week and to our Summer Nature Camps!