More Nature Days

This Nature Day we explored Ft Ward on the south end of the Island. This was once a strategic military post, with gun emplacements to guard the entrance to Rich Passage and the Bremerton Naval Ship Yard. The fort was built in the early years of the last century.

We had to figure out how to climb onto the large logs on the beach, and felt so proud when we made it!

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The gun emplacements were fascinating.

Even though it drizzled on us, we had a fun time eploring with our friends.

Go Orcas!

For our last Nature Day this year, we went to Faye Bainbridge Park. This is a park that is on the beach, but it is a very different beach from the one we visited on our beach day. It was a very warm day, so we took our shoes off to walk on the sandy beach.

This beach has lots of drift wood. This gives us lots of ideas for our imaginative play.

Is it a ship? A space ship?

It takes team work to build a house from drift wood.

Look what we made! We also had an important lesson: that a driftwood house does not have indoor plumbing, so if you pee in it, you have to move to a new house. Life lessons...

The tide was way out, and there was a lot of eel grass. We found many, many brown striped nudibranchs on this beach, but not very many other creatures. How lucky we are to live where we do and to be surrounded by such natural beauty!