Happy New Year

Ramblings

• Sea Turtle Nest Hatching
• Sea Turtle Laying 209 Eggs
• Bald Head Island Turtle Conservancy

  Bald Head Island Conservancy manages the care of turtle nests and efforts on helping newly hatched turtles on their return to the Atlantic Ocean. Learn more about hatching turtles and their return to the Atlantic Ocean!
• The Relatives Have Come by By Genia Connell

  The Relatives Have Come by Genia Connell is a delightful story to read to young children. Find a place on the bookselves for this treasure of a story. Children and adults both enjoy Stephen Gammell's signature pencil artwork. He beautifully captures the light-hearted joy of the two families and the simple pleasures that they share together. The relatives come from Virgina and have driven a long way to reach their family and stayed when "their grapes were nearly purple enough to pick."

• Over the Rim and Beyond: The IMAX® Movie, Grand Canyon: Discovery & Adventure

  As stated from explorethecanyon.com

  In only 34 minutes, viewers will discover a Grand Canyon that would take a lifetime to experience. This IMAX movie opens with the beginning of man's fragile kinship with the twisting 277 mile Grand Canyon in Arizona, then moves the audience through time with brief glimpses at the stone pages of human history. From the mysterious Anasazi who inhabited the Canyon 4,000 years ago, viewers at The National Geographic Visitor Center will travel through Grand Canyon history to join Major John Wesley Powell as he challenges the unexplored Canyon and raging Colorado River in 1869.