A week at Coastal Camp

This week, I went to a camp called “Coastal Camp” and had a lot of fun. We ate cookies, went on hikes, went to Battery Mendell, went sailing, played games, saw a sea lion get freed*, went into a lab, and we learned so much stuff! My group was the Bobcats, and my counselors were Meg (pronouns: she/they) and Spore (pronouns: they/them). We had so much fun. There is also a lab called the fish bowl, because it was covered in glass. There were a bunch of smaller labs inside but I only went in 1. I went in the skins and skulls lab and my favorite skin was the seal skin because it was very soft.

The picture above is me holding a hawk wing, and over here is me doing the three peaks challenge where we’re on a boat and we’re running out of supplies but, we see two other vessels that are full of supplies so we are supposed to use wood planks to get from ship to ship. I also learned that ferns have been around since the Cretaceous period. But do you know why they’ve been around for so long? A: because it has hundreds of little spores on the bottom that fall off, so even if a few die, the others will survive!

*The reason it got freed is because a group of people from an animal rescue team found it sick when it washed up, so they had it in captivity for a little while until it wasn’t sick anymore.