Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary News

After School Nature Club

This session of After School Nature Club has been smaller than most but the next session is filling up quickly.

We've been rained on over the last few weeks and have been doing lots of indoor projects. This week we talked about eggs.

We looked at bird nests and eggs, turtle eggs and snake eggs. We read a story about birds and looked at pictures of frog and fish eggs.

The kids had asked to decorate some eggs so we blew the insides out of a dozen or so chicken eggs, rinsed and dried them and decorated them with Sharpie markers. We chose these markers because they are easy to use and unlike washable markers don't smudge off. Paints are difficult for young children to use on something as small as eggs and they often end up discouraged. Their eggs came out great and they had a blast while the rain poured down outside our windows. 

After School Nature Club Visits Shipwreck

Last Thursday morning the local paper reported that the remains of an old wooden schooner that had most likely been coverted to a barge at some point had washed up at Newcomb's Hollow in Wellfleet. It was a mild day and it seemed like it would be a fun thing to take the kids in the after school group down to the beach to see the wreck. They thought it was a great idea.

After examining all the old wooden pegs and beams they took this pose. They fit perfectly between the ribs.

Returning to the parking lot we stopped to look at the huge deposits of natural clay that have been pulled from the cliffs and stand like small mountains on the sand.

The kids were fascinated to feel the chunks of clay and see how malleable they were in their hands.

All in all, a good day for a field trip.