Photos – Kids experience nature’s best at annual EcoFest
Staff Writer
Amanda Kross with her daughter, Eva Kross
Sunday was a perfect day to commune with nature and thousands of people decided to do just that, descending upon the Environmental Learning Center for its 22nd annual EcoFest, enjoying a brisk but sunny afternoon wandering the diverse 64-acre campus.
As part of its Nature Rocks! theme, little ones were challenged to take part in a scavenger hunt among the winding trails to search for painted rocks and to also create some of their own.
Visitors enjoyed live music by the River Rats, numerous educational exhibits and interactive games, arts and crafts with an ecological twist, canoe trips through mangrove tunnels, the always popular Discovery Station Interactive Museum & Touch Tank, and the newly opened Mack Whiting Nature Playscape.
Photos by: Denise Ritchie
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Molly Steinwald with Carol and Tim Buhl
ELC Ecofest
Dan and Amanda Kross with their children Preston, Logan, and Eva.
Luke Higgins with his father, Steve Higgins.
Julia Fonvielle
Mary Helen Moore shows a starfish to Hayes, Harper, and Megan Sutton
Genevieve Presti
Cheyenne Dong, Mary Helen Moore, Harper Sutton and Megan Sutton
Mary Helen Moore with Hayes Sutton, Harper Sutton, and Ewan MacPhee
ELC Ecofest
Arabella Hepler and Emma Hite
Amanda Kross with her daughter, Eva Kross
ELC Ecofest
Joey Schaffer, Arabella Hepler and Emma Hite
The River Rats
Eli and Remi Wunderlich
Torin Howle and George Henkel
Caitlin and Patrick Hoy with their son, Silas Hoy.
Kaitlynn, Makayla, and Darlene Rapp with Anne Sleeman
Kaitlynn Rapp
Luke Sammartino with a blue crab
Katie Nelson, Marty Nelson, Randy Nelson, and Jenny Nelson
Patrice Betz and Todd Giager from US Fish and Wildlife demonstrate radio telemetry equipment
Sam Girard
Aiden Burdick and Joseph Tomberg
Ian Moore with Nolan and Tyler Young
ELC Ecofest
ELC Ecofest
Callie and Bailey Headdy
Callie and Bailey Headdy
Callie and Bailey Headdy
Callie and Bailey Headdy
Callie and Bailey Headdy
