Date: 9/21/2021
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On the third day of cardigan, I was actually surprised at how fast it had gone by. I got on the bus, strained of my excitement but still happy for the day to come. After reuniting with my group, we started with some compass work. It was cool, and I finally learned how to use a compass! I had the GPS, and I marked a lot of waypoints along the way. We started to do a scavenger hunt, using the compasses, and I was trying to keep up with the group while marking all the places we had been to on the GPS. We found a scotch pine, and many other trees. When we had to find a rock wall, we walked pretty far into the woods and still could not find it. We eventually gave up, and went to the pond to have a snack. My camera battery died before I could barely do anything with it, but it was okay. Mrs. Baroody was with us, and it was so much funner with her! We found a baby snake in the water, which I later identified as a (most likely) spaghetti like- macroinvertebrate. Emma and I also found a potentially overweight beetle struggling to climb up a slim plant and eventually losing the fight and therefore falling in the water. The last thing we saw at the pond before leaving were a bunch of little newts in the water, which were really cool to see so close up. We went on a nature walk as well, where we found some bright purple mushrooms, and we even did a group bonding activity where we described a drawing and the other person would draw it. We did that on a cement dam. After the nature walk, we came back to the bus in the nick of time and hopped on, where I eventually fell asleep.
Day 3: I think that lastly, the third day of the trip matches the theme movement.
This day was a bit more chill, and took less work with less hiking, but something we did focus on a lot was compassing. (and how to use it.) We started out with them and did a little scavenger hunt where we had to use them. I thought that movement relates to that because the idea of a compass, and the whole concept of finding direction with help from the Earth magnetic field, have moved from China to Cardigan. It could not have originated/invented at Cardigan, but whoever invented the compass must have let other people make it, and then be brought to Cardigan and other places to help people find their way. Additonally, movement for this day also represents the movement of water. As you can see on the map, there are a LOT of little veins. These are all little streams or bodies of water running down Cardigan mountain to the Atlantic ocean. Every blue vein in the map does mean water, and every line is also water that is moving from one place to another.
