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November 16, 2005
Aquarena Springs
On Monday we went to Texas State University Aquarena Center in San Marcos for a turtle presentation. The place is actually on the site of an old amusement park, Aquarena Springs, which closed in the 1990s. Some of the old structures are still standing. It is also the home of the actual San Marcos Springs which puts out about 200 million gallons of water a day.
It was really great trip. We started off with a ride on a glass bottom boat and saw a ton of turtles swimming, as well as a variety of fish. We also saw the springs in action: it looked like the mud on the bottom of the lake was boiling.
We then went into their small aquarium and saw a handful of local endangered species, including a very cute soft shelled turtle. We also went on walk across a boardwalk over some restored wetlands and saw even more turtles.
We capped off the field trip with another set of turtle shell paper plates:
(notice my children were still dressed in summer clothes)
Posted by Julee at November 16, 2005 11:17 PM