This week we went on a tour of one of Puerto Rico’s bioluminescent bays, La Parguera. A bio bay is a ecosystem in a sheltered bay that lets thousands of Dinoflagellates thrive. When touched, they produce one tiny bit of glowing bioluminescence. When there’s a whole bunch in one place it looks really cool when […]
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My favorite animal is the capybara, so I decided to do a report on them. Unfortunately I can’t really remember when I heard of them for the first time, however I can remember the first time I was able to see one in real life. We were camping in our RV, and Cici was staying
The snorkeling in Puerto Rico, in our experience, has been great. We’ve seen so many different types of fish! Some of the fish we have seen have been shinny and blue. I’m not sure what the specific name of that certain type of fish is but there were a bunch of them and they were
Surfing is a pretty easy thing to do once you know how to do it. Usually to learn surfing you start out not standing up at all, just laying on the board and working on how to catch waves. Once you get better at that you start working on turning and maybe getting up on
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For one of Jack’s Christmas presents, we went to an escape room. The escape room’s theme was Pirates of Tortuga. We started out in a jail cell with skeletons and 60 minutes to try and escape (there was also a fake parrot who spouted gibberish whenever it could). The key to the cell was in
We’re spending about a month on South Padre Island and we’ve done some surfing. We have also done some swimming with surfboards, dolphins, and seaweed. A few days ago Daddy and I decided to go surfing. We checked an app on his phone to make sure the waves would be big. The app told us
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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