Field Trips 2006
Our club schedules a field trip, usually to a location within the
state, on a Saturday each month. An occasional overnight trip is
scheduled also.
Email your suggestions
for field trips.
February
18th, field trip to Blanchard Springs. Robert went up to
Newton County Monday and hiked down to Glory Hole and it is bone dry,
not a drop of water at all. So the February field trip will be to
Blanchard Springs Caverns. This is NOT the photo tour where they allow
tripods. But will be hand held with flashes only. We will meet
at McDonalds in Morgan at 7:00 a.m. on Saturday Feb 18th and leave by
7:15. It takes about 2 1/2 hours or so to get to the Caverns.
There is a $10.00 admission charge with Seniors 62 or over and
Golden Aged Passport holders getting in for $5.00. For more
information go to :
http://www.fs.fed.us/oonf/ozark/recreation/caverns.html
March
4th. The AOPC February field trip will be March 4th to to the
Little Rock Zoo. There was not enough time to arrange early admission
and animals brought out so we will meet at the front gate at 9:00 a.m.
which is the time that the zoo normally opens up. This way we will go
in together and can stay in groups just what ever we want to do. The
annual zoo photo contest sponsored by our club and Bedford's will be
held on April 15th and this will be a great time for everybody to get
their photos that they want to enter in the contest.
Contest info (PDF);
Contest Entry Form (PDF)
25th, field trip to Garvan
Woodland Gardens. Meet at the commuter
parking lot at I-630 and Shackleford by 8:00 a.m. and leave shortly
after. The Gardens opens at 9:00 and we should be there by 9:15 for
those people that want to meet us there. According to their bloom
calendar the daffodils, tulips, kurume and species azaleas, dogwoods,
Japanese camellias and wildflowers will be blooming.
April
TBA - Trip to Dagmar Wildlife Management Area, located near Biscoe,
AR. About one hour from Little Rock, east on I-40.
May
13th, to Cossatot Falls. Meet at the commuter parking lot at
I-630 and Shackleford at 7am. Should be plenty of water and
kayaks and canoes and plenty of spring foliage and wildflowers.
June
10th, to the Memphis Zoo. We will meet at the McDonalds in the
Other Center Shopping Center across from McCain Mall at 7:00 a.m. Little Rock
Zoo members will be able to get in for half price with their membership
card and photo ID.
July
22nd, field trip to Bayou Bartholomew in Pine Bluff, AR. Meet
at the commuter parking lot at I-630 and Shackleford at 7am.
August
19th, field trip to Mount Nebo, Dardanelle, AR.
Meet at the McDonald's in Morgan at 7AM and carpool from there.
We will just walk one way on the trail. We will need to drop off a
car or two at the "bench overlook" on the way up the mountain. Our
hike will start at the visitor center on top of the mountain then
we'll walk downhill to the cars we dropped off, then ferry back to
the other cars. Bring a sack lunch and we can picnic on top of the
mountain. For those that want to stay a while, maybe the hang
gliders will be flying off of sunrise point during the afternoon.
And if you really want to stay up there you can shoot the sunset
from sunset point. There are coke machines and bathrooms at the
visitor center and there is even a swimming pool up there too.
Click here for a park map.
September
23rd, The Butterfly Place in Branson, MO.
Ernie Decker suggests everyone meet there at 1 pm and all go in
together. People can work out carpool arrangements among themselves.
Some may also want to stay Friday and Saturday night. The Butterfly
Place can be done in one day by meeting at 1 pm.
[Editor’s note: An internet search on “Branson” and
“butterfly” gives many hits, including information on places to
stay. The Butterfly Place web site is
http://www.butterflyplace.com/.]
October
21st, Delta Rivers Nature Center, Pine Bluff
Visit
http://www.deltarivers.com/ for more information on the Delta
Rivers Nature Center.
November
4th, Pedestal Rocks. This ia early but hopefully
fall colors will be good then. We will go to Pedestal Rocks (north
of Dover on hwy 16) for the “official” field trip. Then for those
who want, we could go up to the Ponca-Boxley area and maybe see some
elk that evening if we’re lucky. Ernie doesn't have all the details
worked out yet, but plan on meeting at McDonalds in Morgan at
7 am. (We’ll be back to regular time by then so it’ll be light a
little sooner on the clock.) It’s a pretty good ways up there and
we’ll go up scenic Hwy 7, so we may want to stop on the way to shoot
something, too.
December
14th, Dinner table at the monthly meeting
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