With 16,000 acres of swamps, marshes and freshwater pools, Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge serves as a resort town of sorts to thousands of migrating birds needing this essential natural resource to bridge the gap between places as far away as Canada and the Gulf of Mexico.
Former Delaware governor Russell Peterson had a dream, and after years of hard work that dream is now a reality called the DuPont Environmental Education Center. The Center is a crossroad both literal and figurative. It is at the intersection point of I95 and several other highways in Wilmington DE, and it is the meeting place between the natural environment and human artifice. "It's a great place, and people are discovering it everyday," said Catherin Coin, wife of Greg Coin, a writer for the Examiner. The DEEC proves that people don't always need to drive out of town for a half-hour to find a calm, contemplative area where they can unwind and enjoy the company of the marsh-grass and birds.
Ashland Nature Center in Wilmington, DE is a great place to learn outdoor sports like fishing. This time around the kids are getting their turn at the Fun With Fishing kid's camp, where youngsters are taught the ins and outs of fly fishing. In a quiet forest clearing along the Brandywine Creek, Derek Stoner reminds his pupils how to tie the proper knot that will secure a fly to the leader. Flies are more delicate than the lures used in most other types of fishing, being made to imitate different insects and tiny crustaceans that swim through the water.
D'you know what a Pony Jam is? Well, on Assateague Island, it turns out to be the term park rangers use to describe the phenom where a dozen or so cars and mini-vans loaded with families grind to a halt in the middle of the main road, so as to take pictures, not recognizing that the traffic is backing up behind them sometimes for up to a mile!
At 37 miles long, Assateague Island is home to roughly 300 horses, living in two distinct populations in Maryland and Virginia. Park Ranger, Carl Zimmerman took us on a tour of the driveable parts of Assateague Island on the Maryland side. Here's some of what we captured.
Video by Errol Webber.
The overcast sky shed a muted gleam through the trees of the Shad Landing State Park, causing the atmosphere along Corker's Creek to be all the more eerie. Lining the banks were many cypress trees, their gnarled black roots – the cypress knees – jutting up from among the shallows of the water. It felt as though we were engulfed in the bony fingers of wooden giants hiding in the swamp. Fresh pine-like scent filled the damp air as birdsong echoed throughout the forest canopy.
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