While I was at Rockridge Canyon, me and my friend Leni (Pronounced: Lay-nee) caught snakes during our free time.
We
caught snakes by the lake near and near the bridge because the snakes
liked to hang out there. Here are some places we found snakes:
- On the
other side of the bridge in the slime,
- under rocks, in the water,
- swimming around, and
- weaving through the rocks.
This is the way I and Leni tried to catch snakes before we came to Rockridge :
- Look
for a snake.
- Try to catch the snake by putting a bucket over it (That didn't work).
- If you
manage to catch the snake, try to scoop it up to get the snake in the
bucket.
- If you are very brave, pick up the snake.
Now that we met an expert, we catch a snake like this:
- Find
a snake in the rocks, in the water, on the rock line, etc. ...
- Follow
the snake (If need).
- Catch the snake with your hands. make hand
adjustments if needed (One hand on the body, one hand gust before the
head. Tight, but not squeezing, lose, but not enough to get out.)
- Put the
snake in the "habitat bucket" (One habitat bucket has water, rocks and
seaweed, the other, grass and rocks.)
- Look for more snakes.
When
we caught two snakes, one of them would go in the water bucket, the
other in the land bucket. Every few minutes, we would put the snake in
the other bucket (water, to no water, land to no land.).
Caution do not put the snakes together! They might fight!!!
-Creative Dana Cat
Saturday, August 1 (2015), me, my mom, my dad, and my brother went to a place in B.C. called Rockridge Canyon. Rockridge is closer to Princeton then Penticton. From Vancouver B.C, it takes about four hours to drive to Rockridge. Whall we were at Rockridge,
we did some fun activities like going on the zip ling, and the blob.
The zip line is the biggest zip line in B.C, and maybe even the biggest
zip ling in Canada!
The blob is a big cushion that you
jump onto and then the next person jumps on the blob and the person
siting on the blob either falls of the edge or goes flying in the air.
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| The blob |
At Rockridge,
we went water skiing and wake surfing. Water skiing is (as you can
guess) skiing on water and wake surfing is surfing on the wakes made
from the boat.
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| Wake sufing |
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| Water skiing |
What
I did with my friends, was we caught snakes. The snakes where water
snakes and garter snakes (you can read more about the snakes in my next
blog.)
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| Water snake |
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| Garter snake |
I had a great time at Rockridge Canyon this year.
