#5 Tupper Lake: Paint Party: The Wild Center

We visited The Wild Center, in Tupper Lake, in the activity room, they have some crafty art opportunities. Over head, on 2 large screens, they demonstrate how to draw some of the wild animals found in the Adirondack forests (owls, for example).

You can sit down with water colours and sketch to your heart's delight! We visited twice, on Saturday and back on Sunday. You can hang your art on a clothesline and come back for it. We forgot the first day.


Jos and I did caterpillars! You'll note I took creative licence!
 

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We visited the Wild Center in Tupper Lake, NY.

The place to start is indoors, then out you go!
The view was amazing. We visited The Wild Center in Tupper Lake.


We visited The Wild Center in Tupper Lake.

"Erratics" take their name from the Latin word errare, and are carried by glacial ice, often over distances of hundreds of kilometres.
This is an erratic, a rock dropped by a glacier. We joked and said it was glacier poop! We had such a good time! Great forest walks. "Erratics" take their name from the Latin word errare, and are carried by glacial ice, often over distances of hundreds of kilometres.

#3 Tupper Lake Trip; the town

Such a pretty town. We were right in the shoulder season. Despite this, the motels were quite full, as was the park.

Our hotel was cheap and cheerful.



Saturday, after our park visit, I offered to do a 'beer run' while the kids went to the beach to the park. I'd forgotten liquor laws. I was looking in the liquor outlet for beer, but they didn't have it. They have beer everywhere, though: in the drug stores, grocery store...right across the street. The kids had a good time, we stocked up.

I bought myself some wine, and stuffed it in the ice bucket. I didn't even realize there was a bar fridge! I am such an awful traveler.

We met the kids at the restaurant Saturday night. It was Mexican. What fun! Apparently, the 19th century lumberjacks made up stories.

Jos was having fun with her mom's camera!

Back at the hotel. Jos came in and took some photos with my camera. The grandies watched a kid video, while the adults watched Star Trek! The men had done a coffee run. A great way to start the day.



Checking out, our trip was nearly done. Sadly the pool was closed. When we woke up on Sunday morning, it was -1 C. and there was frost on the car windows.


Down at the beach, there were Canada Geese and swans nestled into the ball diamond.


These are fun. It looks like kids were commissioned to do paintings.


They were working on sidewalks, and had some construction going on. This house just made me nervous!



The Swiss Kitchen was the only game in town for breakfast. It was packed to the gills.

#2b Tupper Lake Trip; outdoor trails

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#2a The Wild Center (indoors)

#2b The Wild Center Wild Walk (outdoors)

It was an epic weekend in the USA! 
On Saturday, after we had some lunch, we went outdoors to the outdoor adventure park.
It's called the Wild walk!

The Eagle's Nest 

Just an amazing structure!


This is the view from the Eagle's Nest!



On Sunday, we went back and did the walkabout down to the River Walk. The girls loved the rocks.
Erratics take their name from the Latin word errare, and these rocks are carried by glacial ice, often over distances of hundreds of kilometres. There are lots of information pieces along the way. I forget the type of rock.

Photo bomb! 

This lively group asked Caitlin to take their group photo. Caitlin obliged (JL had done the same thing for a couple on the spider web trampoline. ) She took their camera and took a position, while I ran in for a photo bomb! Caitlin mournfully called out, "MOM!" when she saw me there, but they all laughed and said, "No, stay!" The young man said, 'Good one!"and we high fived. The man in the hat, opposite me in the photo, shook my hand. It was really fun.
Isn't it fun when you can embarrass your kids?!

We left JL and the grandies, to go back and play on the spider web trampoline. We thought we'd revisit the center and walk about the property.

Here was our walk about the building. A lovely bridge. The pond floats right up to the window ledge in the center. The cement walkways have foliage prints in it. The fencing is made of individual branches.

Osprey nest!