Worth Family Preserve

This weekend we visited a park that we hadn't been to before, called the Worth Family Preserve. We took the GPS with us and geocached while we were there.

The wooded area reminded the girls of walking in the woods in Maine, so they called that part the Maine Woods. We saw a lot of interesting things. Georgia saw some animal droppings and we saw some animal tracks. One was a deer, one was a dog, and we are not sure on the rest. While walking we also heard a lot of birds, and even an owl. We were walking near dusk. The birds we saw, and Mark identified, were Red-Winged Blackbirds, Red-Shouldered Hawks, a Giant Horned Owl, and a flock of Canada Geese flew overhead, too.

While walking through the woods the girls pretended they were time-travaling explorers looking for dinosaurs.

We saw this tree, but were not sure what type it was. The tree guide we have is not for winter, so we couldn't tell what it was without the leaves.

Olivia loved the smell of the pine needles. She kept having me smell them, then she would and she'd say "Aaaah."

The creek looked full, and we could tell that it had recently flooded where we were walking.

We had to pass a little stream. The girls thought it was fun to hop on the rocks to get over it.

And we found the cache at the end of one of the trails. It was a wild animal cache, so the girls traded a couple of their wild animal toys for other ones. They picked out a couple lizards.

As we were at the cache it started to rain lightly, so we headed back to the car.