Saturday We Visited A New Place.

We visited a refuge I remember a little bit from a school field trip in my childhood.  I only remembered the name and not much about it so we went and were totally surprised by the experience.  You drive and drive and drive through the forest and then come up to a toll booth and pay 4 dollars to get in and then you drive and drive and drive through the forest.  We finally came up on a trail and hiked through the woods for quite a ways and finally came upon the marsh - it was really beautiful.  The kids saw an otter and were so excited.  There was a playground to run around as well.  Then they got to hike along the beach and picked up various snail shells, sponges, sticks.  After that we visited the nature center where they have a few live exhibits and visited the frog/turtle pond behind it.  Trevor and Heather tried their hardest to catch the 5 lined skinks there but missed every time.

I tried so hard to get a nice photo of the two of them - Trevor was NOT having it.  He did not like his sister constantly touching him.  I finally had to bribe him to get the photo below.