Tuesday’s sunshine and warm temperatures were a welcome change to the previous run on cool, wet weather, especially for several students visiting Chop Point School to participate in Bay Day.
Approximately 200 students from Pittston, Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School in Brunswick, Williams Cone School in Topsham, Woolwich Central School and Chop Point School participated in the environmental education sessions, and organizers made sure they had at least two good muddy events.
Repetto found a ground beetle and several scuds, and during the beach seining he found some fish.
“I thought it was really pretty. I love nature and I thought it was really nice,” he said.
He enjoyed searching in the water for macroinvertebrates too, and catching fish so he could observe them.
“I learned a lot about the geography of the area,” he said. “Chop Point is kind of like a bathtub drain for Merrymeeting Bay and eventually it flows out into the ocean. I also learned that Merrymeeting
Bay is connected by six different rivers.”
Steve Eagles with FOMB has participated in Bay Day for many years and said Chop Point is a great spot to do the activities, where the kids can see the bay well.
“There’s something about the Chops,” he said.
He does watershed modeling with students using portable fold-out tables with the outline of the bay devised and constructed 15 years ago by Mark and Bill Milan of Woolwich. The students get to use mud to create land around the river, and Eagles poured water over to simulate Merrymeeting Bay and the rivers flowing into it.
One thing FOMB try to do with Bay Day is give the students a bit of pride in the recreational resource it has in Merrymeeting Bay, encouraging them to get out on it to do things like skating or fishing.
“At least now they know,” he said.
dmoore@timesrecord.com
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