Hello! This week, I was surprised by how full of fin-tastic energy and enthusiasm all my campers had! I am really happy that I got to spend one week of Spring Break doing all sorts of otter-ly awesome activities with the campers, such as:

• exploring galleries
• outdoors Wild Coast: dolphin, sea lions, sea otters, penguins
• Amazon: sloths, bats, caiman, parrots, rays, monkeys, snakes
• Clownfish Cove: pretend-played as marine biologists and rescuers
• Tropics: sharks, sea horses, jellies, lionfish, clownfish, sea turtle
• Frogs: bullfrogs, toads, poison dart frogs
• BC Treasures Coast: salmon, skate, anemones, hagfish, sea stars

• watching the Dolphin Show
• learned why we train animals
• learned about how Interpreters train Helen the dolphin
• saw cool tricks performed by Helen

• making crafts
• CD fish
• Jellyfish
• squid-tentacles hat

• having a tour of jellies hallway
• saw many jellies
• learned what we feed the jellies

• having a forest walk
• learned what nurse logs are
• played Sneaky Animals
• read books

• playing games
• parachute
• octopus
• sneaky seahorses
• screaming seagulls
• penguin ice hop

• doing dissections
• squid: observed and touched parts of a squid, learned how to differentiate if it's a girl or a boy and basic anatomy
• herring: observed and touched parts of a herring, learned how to differentiate if it's a girl or a boy and basic anatomy

• having an animal visit
• Amazon staff brought a snake into Narwhal Room to show campers and share facts about the snake

• watching 4D Show: Sharks
• had 3D experience with water sprays, bubbles, chair vibrations, and blowing breezes

• beach walk
  • saw sea stars, baby sea urchins, shore crabs

• touching animals in Wet Lab
  
  • Sandy Shores: sand dollar, hermit crab, clam
  • Rocky Outcrop: sea anemone, talked about the clam shells in the beer bottle
  • Eelgrass Meadows: sea cucumber, sea star

This week has truly been an a-ray-zing week full of joy as we learn about the marine animals and the ocean. I hope everyone had a whale-ly good time and maybe I'll see you next time!

Your Camp Educator,

Cary Choo