While staying in Baja we took an opportunity to explore La Valle de Los Gigantes. This area outside our town of San Felipe is known as being the only area where the Cardón cacti grow. The Cardón cacti are related to Saguaros, but grow much larger. We had a great time wandering through the giants […]
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Today we had a beach day on the sands of Useless Bay. Useless bay is called Useless bay because when it was discovered it was found that it was too shallow for big ships to anchor. We found several sand dollars while there and learned they are rather common, especially at low tide. Sand dollars
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This week we went to an astronomy program at an observatory, it was based on the sun. The telescope there was big, but we were told that it was only a twenty four inch mirror versus the European Extremely Large telescope that has a thirty METERS long mirror. The two types of telescopes that we
For the most part the national and state parks, monuments, and historic sights we’ve been to have junior ranger programs or at least something similar. Here are some things about the junior ranger programs: One of the more recent badges I earned was from Farragut State Park in Idaho. Farragut’s Junior Ranger program was quite
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It is September, so that means that kids are back in school all over. This is the time homeschoolers enjoy field trips! We headed to the WA side of the Bonneville Lock & Dam to learn how the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) is using the Columbia River to generate power for the area. The
We are in Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada for the next few days and the top item on our activity list was to hike to at least one of the local tea houses. We chose to head to the Plain of Six Glaciers tea house today. It is the less visited one because it is 7.3km
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For our first full day in Glacier National Park I signed us up for a guided tour in one of the historic 1937 red busses. We met our guide at 8:30 (too early in the minds of the kids) and even though it was 47 degrees outside, he immediately asked for help converting our bus
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If you have read Jacks post: He lies, I crush him at Bad Tommy and when he wins, he barely wins. This week when we were leaving Yellowstone we decided to stop in the national forest 🌳 to see a visitor center because Daddy wanted to know why there were dead trees standing in the
In June, Yellowstone experienced unexpected water levels that caused immense damage to the northern end of the park. This resulted in the two northern entrances to the park being closed and many of the parts and roads in the north being closed to visitors. Initially the entire park was closed to all people, though this
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Friday we went on a drive with Ms Kristie’s dad, Mr Bruce. He used to be a tour guide for Yellowstone, so he knew a lot about the park. He mostly talked about the hydrothermal features of the park. These features are the result of a millions of years old volcano that covered pretty much
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