This weekend we headed to the Foss Waterway for an evening of fun peering over the pier. We spent the evening look at marine animals that live in the Puget Sound waterway.
Isabel and I before the class started.
Before heading down to the pier, we watched a live feed from off the pier with a scuba diver. That was awesome!
Out on the pier, we took scoops over the edge to collect and observe anything that we could catch.
Isabel loved this! We all tried it but the only one with any luck was Isabel. She caught some type of marine worm (can’t remember the name).
Isabel and this little girl started to work together to catch things off the pier.
This little girl was great at catching things!
The Foss Waterway building was built in 1900 and was part of a much larger building than what it is today. It was built as a wheat warehouse to transfer wheat from train (tracks on other side) to boats. Now the building is used to educate families and students about maritime heritage and other community events.
We had so much fun, wish the learning didn’t have to end.
Now it’s time to head back to the classroom for observation, study, cookies and cocoa.
Looking under the microscope…
at baby shrimp.
We also looked at plankton under the microscope as well.
In the classroom they had tanks filled with marine animals from Puget Sound. However these animals have been in the tanks for years and are healthy and thriving. Unlike the starfish, that are struggling to survive in the water along our coast all the way down to California. There is a strange disease that is affecting them and killing starfish off.
Observing some of the starfish in the tanks.
Another tank filled with mussels, sea anemone, sponges and other marine life.
These lucky starfish have been living in the tank for a few years.
Can you spot the crabs?
I missed most of them in the tank until the teacher pointed them out!