3rd Annual Big Bend Nature Festival

[MarkB]

For those who like to plan ahead, here are the details: http://www.visitbigbend.com/bbnf/index.html

[chisos muse]

Has anyone ever been to the festival? I'd love to go this year. It falls a few days before my birthday too, so it'll be the "Big Bend Nature Festival/Muse Birthday Celebration"

[Jim]

Has anyone ever been to the festival? I'd love to go this year. It falls a few days before my birthday too, so it'll be the "Big Bend Nature Festival/Muse Birthday Celebration"

Greetings from BB!


Yes, I was at last year's nature festival as BBNHA's volunteer photographer.  It was a lot of fun.  I went on the "Geology Jeep Tour" that ended up in Pine Canyon.  Don Corrick from NPS gave the running commentary and discussion.  The other outing was a "Butterfly Walk" by Ro Wauer of Victoria.  He has several BB books published.  I never knew there were so many butterflies in the park.  I also did not know most of them are 1/2" in size... tiny little buggers.

The were other tours - birding, survival, emergency medical, lizards, etc... if you're more inclined to experience things first hand, the tours were great.  If you're more academically inclined, the talks and presentations given in the afternoon were interesting, too.

[01ACRViper]

those tours sound like they would be quite interesting. i might jsut have to mark this down on the calender, though i'd be the youngest person there by far

[Joe]

Here's a preliminary list of 2006 Big Bend Nature Festival scheduled tours:

Butterflies of Big Bend, lead by Ro Wauer

Birds of the Chisos Mountains

Plants of the Terlingua Area

Tour of the Villa de la Mina mine, lead by Blair Pittman

Herpetology, lead by BIBE Chief of Interpretation David Elkowitz

Geology Jeep Tour

Archeology of Big Bend, lead by Andy Cloud, Center for Big Bend Studies

Driving Tours of Big Bend National Park

Dark Skies Astronomy

Dinosaurs of the Cretaceous, lead by Ken Barnes

Some tours will be offered on both Friday and Saturday.

[chisos muse]

those tours sound like they would be quite interesting. i might jsut have to mark this down on the calender, though i'd be the youngest person there by far

You know, that's so funny, because when I was looking over last years' schedule of events, and the people hosting and attending, I thought the same damn thing....and I was 40 then! :lol:

I've come to realize, though, that after reading some of those peeps work, and even meeting some of them since last year....what an honor!
So much to be learned from those of passion who have experienced much. And they're really not old, maybe in years, is all.

"Terlingua Time" is ageless....and priceless!

[SHANEA]

i'd be the youngest person there by far

Now why would you think that?