Tidbury Creek Park is tucked away in the woods in South Dover with next to no information offered online regarding the amenities there so it is understandable if you’ve never heard of it before. I probably would be unfamiliar myself had my parents not brought me here to hike as a kid.     My childhood […]

Let me start by saying that I’ve been in the woods and going on adventures my entire life and have never gotten chiggers. Unfortunately, there’s a first time for everything. So here I am, documenting it so that my itchy misery serves a purpose.   Chiggers, ticks, mosquitoes, spiders, snakes, biting flies and any other […]

Every once in awhile I like to do a post that makes people say “I never knew that was there!” I think the Woodland Trail at Delstate qualifies as one of those posts. I was saving our visit to this trail for when I had about an hour I had to kill with the kids […]

I am not a museum person. I am certainly not a history museum person, but I let the hubby plan the adventure for this one and that is where he picked so we went. Turns out the Delaware Museum of Natural History isn’t so bad after all! If you notice that my kids look a […]

Doing a nature based blog post on the Newark Reservoir is sort of oxymoronic considering the fact that it is completely manmade BUT it is actually a great example of responsible watershed management. Since it’s completion in the mid 2000’s, it has since become an asset to the community in more ways than the obvious. […]