Boston Day 2-Wellfleet Audubon

This morning we went on a beach and relaxed there for a while, enjoyed the sun and the vast miles of beach. Continuing our experience, we headed on our way to the Wellfleet Audubon. The first part of the activities there were completing community service for one of their most popular trails. This involved shoveling wood chips onto the trails. It was a lot of work! The importance of this is , since naturally the trails are completely made of sand the visitors walking on the trails would cause erosion which would ruin the trails. Wood chips almost completely diminish this problem. The second part of our activities was dissecting and learning about squids and Mullusks. We participated in a squid dissection, which was somewhat gross, but pretty cool! Then we got to take a tour of the salt marsh. We waded through the water to get to the beach where we got to see a few people tagging horseshoe crabs; some of even got to catch the crabs with our bare hands ;-) we then got back on the bus to come to our hotel (2 hrs) but it was definitely worth it. We had a great time and we're looking forward to three more days of fun! 

Submitted by Sophie Claire Jora and Vama