My Favorite Trip

My favorite trip was to Canadice Lake when we went canoeing. It was my favorite because you learned how to canoe. Christine helped me in the canoe. We stopped for lunch and looked at the sedimentary rocks on the shore. They made good skipping stones. I had a lot of fun!!

Rachael

Field Trips

Water World Science Camp was so much fun! We went on so many field trips. The first field trip we went on was at Taughonnock Falls. We went on a hike and went swimming in the lake. On the hike, there were so many great sights to see. We also went into the stream to catch creatures living there. Our second field trip was at the Finger Lakes National Forest. We went their to catch frogs in the pond. We caught many other things too. Our last field trip which was my FAVORITE was canoeing. We went canoeing at Canadice lake and that was the most beautiful lake I have ever seen. It was so much fun riding back because it was really windy and the waves were going crazy! I am really glad that I went to Water World Science Camp.

-Michelle

Canoe Trip Canadice Lake

Today was a really cool day. We took a trip to Canadice Lake. There we met Bob and Jim our new teachers! We were going to be learning to canoe! When we got there we picked out a canoe and a partner. After learning some tips we set out on our journey. At first it was pretty hard but we soon got the hang of it. About two hours later we stopped for lunch. The tuna fish wraps filled our growling stomachs. Then Sam gave everyone a rock skipping lesson. We found a mystery gall and a dragonfly nymph case. When we decided it was time to leave we got back in our canoes and started to row out. But the wind had picked up and it was a lot harder. Many people got pushed to shore and one team even had to be towed by Bob and Lucas. When we finally got back to shore we were all soaked. After that we stopped for ice-cream and headed back for the institute. It was a very fun day.

Last Day July, Friday 13th 2007

Today is the last day of Water Worlds Camp. We had to say goodbye to Sam and Christine early because they had other things to do. Today we made fish prints on T-shirts, we looked at aquatic plants and other things we found at Canadice Lake under the microscope. We also helped the FLI scientists sort out their samples of mussels they collected from Seneca Lake. What fun we have had all week!!

Sheila - counselor

Today is the last day of water worlds. I have had a lot of fun going on our feild trips to 2 new places I have never been before (fingerlakes national forest and Canadice lake). At Canadice lake I went cannoeing for the second time. I thought these were great instructers and were very useful. They taught me the real way to canoe, not the way I was tought how to do before. I geass you really need to take sometime to learn how to do it right. Water worlds should stay and have the same instructers but have different things to learn about, but still involve water.



Liam Wilber

last day activities

On the last day when Sam wasn't here we had a great time. We made t-shirts with fish prints. We also sorted zebra mussles and quagga mussels. We ate lunch at the saga. We also swam in the bristol gym pool.

Lucas Reisch

Water Worlds camp is Awesome!

Hi,
My name is Madison and I am having so much fun at the Water Worlds! camp.
The First day of camp we played a bunch of neat games. First we had to classify different shells found in the lake. Then we had to pick a shell and feel it. After that we closed our eyes and passed the shells around and tried to guess which shell was ours by feeling it. That game didn't go to well because we saw who had our shell before hand. The next game we played was called "The Incredible Journey". We pretended we were water molecules and we had a pipe cleaner and we went to different stations. Each station was a place water can be found. I got stuck at the ocean a lot. The next thing we did was we went down to the boat house and collected plankton. We looked at the plankton under microscopes. We learned the names of some of them and tried to find them under the microscope. It was amazing what people don't know is in the water.
The second day of camp we took a trip to Taughannock Falls. It was really hot that day but we got cooled of in the water. We went under a bridge and found a ton of aquatic creatures. Then we walked up the stream to the falls. They used to be really big but over time they got smaller. I learned that Taughannock means full of trees.
The third day of camp was really fun. We went to a big pond in the Finger Lakes national forest. We caught a bunch of frogs and tadpoles. I caught a HUGE tadpole! As soon as we left it started to rain. Good thing we made it back in time for the huge thunder storm. I am really enjoying camp so far and I can't wait until tomorrow!