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Spring Day Learning at Batiquitos Lagoon

·San Marcos, California·#spring#kids#crafts#outdoor education#lagoon
A bright orange sunset illuminates dark clouds over a hill covered in houses and a residential neighborhood.

Up early enough to catch the clouds breaking orange over the ridge behind the house, then off for a spring day learning at Batiquitos Lagoon.

The lagoon was full and blue with the power plant stack sitting off in the distance, and the aloes by the overlook were blooming red. The signs at the top of the trail cover habitats and the lagoon itself, which fit what the kids were working on.

Most of the time went to the little folded booklets — weathering, erosion, water flowing over Earth's surface. Two of the girls sat on the bench and worked through theirs page by page, heads down, barely looking up. When they finally did, we got smiles for the record before everyone scattered again.

A sunny wetland with a winding lagoon under power lines, a distant chimney, and a blooming aloe plant.Two children sit on a bench outdoors, writing in small booklets with pencils, with other children and plants in the background.Two children sit outdoors, writing in small booklets with pencils, as other children are partially visible around them.Two children sit outdoors, focused on writing in small paper booklets with pencils.Two children are writing in paper booklets outdoors, surrounded by green foliage.Two smiling children with name tags sit side by side outdoors.Two smiling children sit outdoors, with a tree, plants, and a paved area in the sunny background.Two smiling children with name tags pose outdoors against a background of trees and power lines.

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