Bouncy mud

Bouncy mud a video by Nature Play Corps on Flickr.

This is probably the team's favorite spot on the whole site - variously known as the bog, the moving earth, the swamp, the mud kingdom... you get the idea.

It's a dense mat of damp, dark organic material (future peat) that creates the springy, muddy surface.

Day 2 - Tuesday June 7th

When was the last time you got down and dirty and down right played? Not go out and do yard work or go play with the kids, go outside and play again like when you were seven years old building forts out in the back yard and having a "parent-free" zone. At this internship I got the amazing opportunity to reconnect with my inner child Tuesday and play games and build a fort out in the woods, things I haven't done in years and it was great! It really opened us up with each other and it made it seem like these people we've know for two days now have been our lifelong friends. Looking back on the day we did so much more than just playing games, we learned about the USFWS NC Coastal Refuges, and how to select our sites for our play pockets, as well as learn about some key design principles. But in all of this, I was having so much fun! Learning all of this and finding out what this whole three weeks internship was going to be about was just so amazing! The whole time I kept thinking to myself how crazy this all was. I am being paid to be here to have all of this fun and prototype children's programs! How can this be work? Work is notorious for be just that, work. Not tons of fun like all of this is. But maybe this is what work is really suppose to be like, having fun because you are doing what you love. Maybe everyone else has it wrong...