Our third nature walk to the Oyster River Nature Park wasn't only fun but it brought with it the joy of a new friendship :) L met A through the random coincidence that they both happened to wear exactly the same lime green boots on the same day! They were inseparable from that moment on *grin*.
This is a really easy trail that takes you alongside the UBC farmlands where we peaked through the brush in hopes of catching a glimpse of the cows, crossed a really cool wooden bridge, and got to stop and take in the scenery at a lookout spot alongside the oyster river :)
In between all of the huckleberry picking there was an awful lot of stump climbing and they were mighty big I might add :) I think that in the above photo K had spied a huckleberry laden branch that he just had to have and of course it just happened to be on top of the stump!
"Look what I can do mom!"
Our one really interesting find for the day was the above caterpillar. It is completely hairless with a hard body, little bumps, a black stripe and those few black spots you can see along its side in the photo. I did some searching on the internet to see if I could identify it for the kids and it seems that this isn't actually a caterpillar at all.
Now I may be incorrect and please tell me if I am so I can correct this but the closest thing that I found to it was an Elm Sawfly larvae ~ Cimbex americana.
We must have been having way to much fun on this walk because that's about it for photos! I don't even have one of them filling in their nature notebooks this time around *grin*
Looks like a fun outing! And I love the idea of the matching boots leading to an instant bond. With boots that cute you can't help but appreciate someone else with such good taste! LOL!
I'm thinking that maybe we need to reserve Friday afternoons for field trips and nature walks while the weather is nice. This was a neat excursion. I just love that the kids have same hats and boots! Was is muddy? My 9 yo loves to where her rain boots weather or not it is raining!
