We all have hiking boots! That fit!
Today's Mission: bird watching. I think the birds knew we were coming! Or maybe they just heard the 2yo and baby.
"Quick, get outta here!"
We had fun hiking nonetheless. IJ and S already know so much about native plants, habitat, ecosystems, etc. Now it is E's turn. I've been trying to remember how the boys got so knowledgeable about everything, and I think it's because we took them to the beach a lot.
IJ, bird watching
This tree was a great lesson on erosion. You could see that once upon a time, it had been growing upright in soil. As time and tides went by, the bank eroded, the tree fell down, and it kept growing. The roots still grow into the bank, but you can see that in another ten years or so the tree will be completely down. Whether it will be a result of human traffic on the bank or the tides is anyone's guess.
Arsty Fartsy example for my kids that humans are part of the environment too!
On we hiked to explore some forest habitat. D wasn't very quiet. He also wasn't a very good Cub Scout and didn't follow the Leave No Trace guidelines. He kept picking leaves from his perch on my back.
E learns that even that this tree is dead, it is providing habitat for living things. Maybe even owls!
S is a tree.
The trail looped back to the beach, so we took another beach walk. This time having fun with the invertebrates...
...and other sea life.
E found a cluster of mussels, seaweed, barnacles, and isopods: a cool little community!
Gorgeous!
F in her Dixy Lee Ray outfit.
And D had his first crawl on the beach and his first taste of beach rocks! He couldn't get enough of that!
