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Opti Challenge: Blindfold Rigging!

Who thinks they can do it?? Last summer our sailors were tested on their skills by rigging their boat while blindfolded. With the help of their team mate, all sailors were successful! Sign up for Camp SoundWaters to learn all the nautical terms and equipment it takes to sail on Holly Pond!   Join us […]

Row, row, row your boat!

Remember how much fun you had rafting up your canoe next to all your friends? Sign up Bluefish campers for a session filled with exciting canoeing adventures! They will learn new skills in order to paddle and navigate throughout Holly Pond.  Sessions fill up quickly! Don’t forget early registration ends March 31, 2013.

Science Stars 2013!

What do you get when you combine 5 full days, 78 girls, Long Island Sound animals, Science experiments, a “crime scene” mystery, guest scientists from all over CT, and 16 large pizzas?  SoundWaters Science Stars 2013!

Ahoy Sea Stars!

To all our sea star campers out there, we are ready for new adventures this summer! Remember how much fun you had dressing up as a pirate?? Together you and your friends will navigate Cove Island Park in search of a buried treasure.     Join us again for new explorations and discoveries!     […]

Calling All Pico Sailors!

Remember how much fun you had learning to sail a Pico? Together this advanced sailing group navigated throughout the Sound to reach exciting destinations.   Join us again for another summer filled with new adventures!  Sign up soon. Spaces are limited.

One fish, two fish, we are the Bluefish!

We are ready for all you Bluefish out there. Remember those hot summer days swimming at the beach with your friends? Come back for another summer filled with new adventures and discoveries!  Sign up soon! Early registration ends March 31, 2013.

Come Sail Away!

  We’re back and it’s going to be better then ever! Camp SoundWaters 2013       It’s that time of year again! SoundWaters is getting ready for all you sailors out there.   Who remembers those hot summer days jumping off their Opti into Holly Pond? Come back and join us again for sailing […]

A Growing Aquarium!

Our SoundWaters aquarium presented us with a cool surprise this morning. After a double take we realized our male lobster (Homarus americanus) grew over the weekend! Can you identify the molt from the living lobster? If you guessed the lobster on the right, you are correct! The American Lobster has 2 different types of claws. […]

What is a Watershed?

If you ask any 8th grader of Dolan or TOR Middle School, they can tell you! This week the students began their watershed study with SoundWaters. The educators joined students in the classroom to provide hands-on lessons the students used to understand water quality and how the earth acts as a filter. Over the next […]

Sixth Graders Kick Off the New Year with SoundWaters

Sixth graders at King Low Heywood Thomas start the year with a classroom visit from SoundWaters.  Students use lab simulations to explore human and environment interactions.  In this photo, they model the horseshoe crabs’ importance in the pharmaceutical industry.