This little creek is our new favourite spot to stop and explore. We start by quietly searching the little stream that feeds into Terminal Creek for red legged frogs. We have been quite lucky, and have found several this past week. They are quite large in size (approximately 4 - 6" in length) and have beautiful red markings on the underside of their legs. We LOVE them!
We then continue down the trail to the creek itself - shoes off, pants rolled up, and in we go. We can easily spend an entire morning exploring this creek. There's logs to climb, a little waterfall to play in, a beaver dam, young salmon and fun waterbugs that glide across the surface.
Today, we headed down with our friends and off went the big kids, net in hand, and look what they came back with...
That's right, a CRAYFISH!! What an exciting discovery. This little guy is absolutely beautiful. When it's front legs are raised, you can see the beautiful irridiscent turquoise colouring on it's underside. GORGEOUS! The big kids disappeared again, and came back with ANOTHER CRAYFISH! This creek just keeps getting better and better!
Next, we strolled through the meadow and played at our favourite bridge that covers a somewhat marshy area, and creek (I'm guessing it's also Terminal Creek). Here we found teeny, tiny tree frogs, pretty snails and tadpoles.
Our kids have no idea how lucky they are - we are so incredibly blessed!
No comments:
Post a Comment