A few of our past campers have returned to SoundWaters for the fall science and sailing program! This Thursday after school, they and their fellow students from Cloonan Middle School conducted a population study of the rocky shore. They found mostly Asian Shore Crabs, an invasive species introduced through ballast water on boats coming from […]
We are grateful to the team from Avison Young for volunteering with us today. The crew did a coastal cleanup at Boccuzzi Park collecting over 60 pounds of trash, including hundreds of cigarette butts, bottle caps and pieces of plastic. Then they helped us move our kayaks and paddle boards from our rental dock to […]
Students from Torrington Middle School visited SoundWaters last week to complete their study of the Long Island Sound watershed. The students had the chance to go canoeing, test the health of the water in LIS, meet some of the animals that live in the LIS and also go catch some for themselves! We often catch […]
Here’s a pic of our Sailing Academy from their first day sailing on Holly Pond! The sailors work as a team to control the sail and steer the boat.
SoundGeneration boarded the SoundWaters research boat on Wednesday and headed out to the Long Island Sound. The interns performed a plankton tow and collected water samples to determine the quality of the water. It was a great first trip of the season! The interns will be out every other week on the research boat, so […]
Students from Torrington Middle School found two snapping turtle hatchlings and a diamondback terrapin hatchling while seining this morning! It has been quite some time since we found a hatchling of any type here in Cove Island Park. We enjoyed learning about our turtle friends but have returned them to their natural environment with the […]
Today the educators received a very pleasant surprise while cleaning the aquarium. One of our baby horseshoe crabs molted. The yellow shell in the picture is the molt (old shell) that the baby horseshoe crab grew out of overnight. Horseshoe crabs must molt to grow because their exoskeleton only allows their body to expand so […]
Interested in viewing the SoundWaters campus? Getting a feel for the boats campers use? Learning how to tie some new knots? Join us at Cove Island park on April 22nd from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. We’ll have a couple sailboats rigged on the grass for campers to hop in and test out, a knot tying station, […]
After a massive overhaul of the rock structure and wall visuals, the new terrapin exhibit is almost ready for the terrapins to enter their new home! As the rescued terrapins have grown, they’ve needed more and more space. At around two years old, the terrapins are 95% fully grown and ready for their new habitat. […]
This weekend, SoundWaters presented a workshop “Water Detectives” at the Westport Minds in Motion event at Bedford Middle School. 30 students from Trumbull, Westport, and even one Floridian learned how to test the water and how we can keep it clean. In addition, we informed local families about the fun science and sailing opportunities […]
