After a two and one half hour drive, we arrived in Burlington. We have been to the town before on an RV trip but this time was dedicated to ECHO, an environmental museum for children.
The museum has excellent hands-on exhibits as well as displays of local fauna, both native and invasive.
Bennett became a weather reporter, following the script of an actual report.
He enjoyed climbing on a sunken ship
and made a new friend.
He learned about “diversion,” creating new routes for the flow of water.
This spiny soft-shelled turtle is native to the area. Only a few hundred remain in the Lake Champlain watershed.
The museum breeds and raises the young for return to the wild.
The sand pile was used to demonstrate the effect of tide on sandbars.
The day ended with a serendipitous experience. We had looked up the ferry schedule and there were no ferries at this season, at least so we thought. Apparently, we didn’t look at all the schedules. Our GPS took us on a different route going back to NY, right to the ferry. We were the last car to board. Not only did the boat shorten our two and one half hour drive back, it was also lovely.
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