Wild Basin Preserve

Posted on | July 16, 2010 | No Comments

Well, we were really supposed to try and find the Goat Cave Preserve. We tried and were attacked by the cave’s hordes of evil mosquito guardians. We ran back to the truck to put on a coat of bug spray. The bugs hovered behind us then, but mom lost the mental will to stay and fight. Those were nasty, big bugs. All I can say is there must be some pudgy bats and chimney swifts this year.

Time for us to buy a toad house or two and build a bat box.

Since that didn’t work out, we headed over to Wild Basin Preserve. Yes it was hot but we wanted to be outdoors, so outdoors we went! Good thing we were armed with Clif bars and bottles of water.

The facility is open to anyone and all they ask is a suggested donation but I forget the amount. With the recent rains, the stream that runs through the preserve was pretty and the little water fall was flowing (note: it’s really a few feet high is all). Anyway, here’s some of what we saw.

Itty bitty meadows of tiny white flowers here and there:
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J running ahead of me, way behind his brother, trail map in his hand:
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It was my main view:
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The water falls were small, like I said. But where do you draw the line between a stream running and water falls?
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“MOM! Take our picture!”
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“We have to go there now!”
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Once, I did get ahead of him. Just once.
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I have no idea why he’s grinning. I’m not sure it matters!
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Funky.
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See? It’s that view again.
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J and I got a kick out of the rollie pollie.
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I thought it was cute.
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The sturdy hand holds to help ford the stream:
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I don’t get it.
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J saw this picture and said “that looks dangerous!”
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Hehe
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A few more photos here.

Category: Around Town, Family Stuff, Homeschool

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