Nature Day Camp Week 1: Monster! Monster! Are they real?

Are monsters real? Or just products of our overactive imagination? Or to paraphrase Pogo, "I have met the monster and he is us!"

With creepy crawly

Our Monster! Monster! Nature Day Camp had a week of fun with not so monstrous monsters. We also made many explorations along the trails and ponds looking for things we might normally be afraid of—snakes, spiders, creepy crawlers—to see if they were really all that scary.

The day-campers also found a hapless runaway werewolf named Max (temper issues), took a giant green Frankenstein named Bob on a nature walk (he only needed a friend), visited Sad Vlad, a vegetarian vampire, in his darkened crypt (he only drinks the blood of trees, poor sap) and went searching for giant millipedes because a full-of-himself Martian ruler named Vol-Ték demanded it. 

Jeez! Those Martians and their angry red planet. Lighten up!

Summer is for having fun and a little pretend. 

- Stephen Lyn Bales