Wednesday, August 17th

    Today was day three and we went and saw a tree -- really!  Volunteer John Dove told us all about the birds of Texada and then led us on an excursion to the Nature Trail at Shelter Point Park where we saw how animals impact plants and vice versa. We saw some really cool stuff!

    And at the Community Hall we had some great rhythms going along with our dancing animals. Nature really gets the beat!

Texada plant and animal expert John Dove showed off all kinds of creatures, including holes made in a tree by a bird called a sapsucker (right) and parasitic wasp eggs encapsulated by a wild rose (below).

After volunteer Faren Wolfe demonstrated the dancing rhythms of the animal world, everyone got in the groove, imitating the ways animals move. Some like the sandollar demonstrated above left don't move much, while you could hear the skittering of rock crabs and feel the smooth waving of sea anemones shown by other kids.

right:  A little drumming helped everyone find their rhythm

left and below:  We started a craft project that will turn our human outlines into animals by the end of the week.