[From my July 22 article in the Colchester Bulletin]
As proud as I am of our department’s people, parks and programs, one of the things I love about Parks & Recreation is its near universality. Just about anywhere you go you can tap into the local system for some affordable family fun.
This week my extended family and I are vacationing in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. While twenty of us (including ten children) in one house can be a bit crazy, it’s also a great opportunity to reconnect. So far, some of the best times we’ve had have been taking advantage of what the local area has to offer.
Of course, one of the key reasons people come to areas like this is the beach. People do not often give it much thought, but the care and maintenance of a beach can be one of the most demanding tasks of a shoreline community. A close second is surely the multitude of sports fields that are scattered throughout a community, such as the fourteen that now constitute Colchester’s athletic facilities.
Yesterday, we took the whole gaggle of kids to the nearby state park, where they had a free program run by friendly and knowledgeable park rangers teaching the kids about animals indigenous to the sand dunes. They learned how to identify the animals by their tracks and even did castings of the footprints that they could take home as souvenirs. We plan to return tomorrow for one of their shoreline programs to find out about the local aquatic life on the Roanoke Sound side of the area.
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