Dolphin Quest Field Trip

This past week, the boys and I had the opportunity to attend a field trip at Dolphin Quest Oahu, which is at the Kahala Resort.  One of the homeschooling moms in the community set up field trip times and dates and all we had to do was say yes, we wanted to go and send in the money.  So I did!  The field trip sounded like fun and who would pass up an opportunity to see/meet some dolphins??

This is the view of the beach we walked along to get to the resort where the field trip was.  Beautiful!!  

The first part of the field trip centered around the kids learning about different animals, which included sea turtles, dolphins and whales.  The teachers had a cool visual set up so the kids could see how long all the different whales were in comparison to themselves and to each of the other whales.  They learned how to "train" a dolphin, using fish and other stimuli.  

Bag of balls, which represented 100 sea turtle eggs.

Max, seeing the size of a hatched baby sea turtle.

The boys learned that, because of many different things, only about 1 out of 100 baby sea turtles makes it into the ocean.

They learned how they can help to keep baby sea turtles getting back to the ocean:)

They got to see a sting ray and how the trainers are working with it, but they did not get to touch it.  

I only got a few pictures of the dolphins themselves, or the boys getting to "meet" them.  I was a chaperone with them out on the docks, so I got to see the dolphin show up close too.  The kids gave them hand signals along side the trainer, which they thought was so cool.  The dolphins showed us how fast they can swim and how they can jump up from the water, among other things.  The resort has a photographer that took photos for us while we were on the docks with the dolphins, but I have not seen them yet. 

This cool waterfall was at the resort.  Another mom offered to take a picture of me with the boys.  Obviously, Max was a tough sell on the picture.  I think I tried to bribe him, but he still didn't give me much of a picture, lol.  Gotta love that boy!!  Jackson, on the other hand, is almost always up for a photo and he poses like a perfect gentleman:)  Gotta love that boy too!!