Calendar for 2011
Get a life! Get outside and see the wonderful world our Heavenly Father has made.  Creation SafarisTM, now continuing our 25th anniversary year, can take you to unusual and beautiful places where you can have fun, fellowship and worship God while enjoying the Great Outdoors.  And while you’re at it, you will learn important evidence for creation and against evolution. Creation Safaris: Escape to Reality!

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Havasu Falls
Updated: 03/31/2011

SAFARI REUNIONS   

In-n-Out Wildflowers  in Weldon Canyon
 
Saturday May 14, 2011 at 12:00 p.m.
Trip Report:  Nearly a dozen happy hikers, including 3 grade school girls, had a short & sweet time exploring the Hanging Gardens of Newhall – a stretch along the Weldon Canyon Mountainway Trail that features a profusion of local wildflowers growing right out of cliffs.  We also found a bumblebees and bugs, a small rattler resting in the shade behind some flowers, and a large snakeskin.  Each participant had a color chart of 24 wildflower species, including shrubs and trees, and had the chance to locate and sketch the flowers and leaves.  The kids seemed to enjoy this “treasure hunt” and the adults all joined in.  In less than two hours, we had lunch and an excursion into God’s creation that was the highlight of the weekend.

Waterfall Hike  in Placerita Canyon
 
Sunday April 3, 2011 at 1:00 p.m.
Trip Report:  Lovely day for this hike.  A lot of people were on the trail.  We had eleven in our group, from age 7 to teens to senior citizens.  All did fine on the slippery creek crossings and got to see at least the first falls; four of us made it to the second and third falls.  Everyone agreed it was a really nice day to get out and see God’s creation.  In addition to sightseeing, Dave taught about native plants, the place of nasty things like poison oak in God’s plan, the marvel of our bodies’ capabilities of jumping from rock to rock in the stream (what with neuron signaling from brain to foot and back), and we had opening and closing prayer.  This all took place in only 2.5 hours--a good investment of time.

Poppy Hop & Photo Op  in Antelope Valley
 
Sat, April 9, 2011 at 8:00 a.m.
Trip Report:  11 people participated, including an infant and a toddler.  Snow was sparse and poppies were not evident at the reserve, but we found good spreads to the north with scads of goldfield.  The cold breeze kept the poppies closed but the vista with the mountains was still magnificent, the puffy white clouds adding to the beauty.
    We drove west and found good color spreads of goldfield and Joshua trees, and some fields of bush lupine at the base of the Tehachapis.  After visiting the Gorman Post lake, and watching five snowy egrets and some turtles and coots, we had hot chocolate and coffee in Lebec and returned home -- just 6 and 1/2 hours.  A good time was had by all.

Havasupai 2011     
June 11-17, 2011
Write if interested in a week at the Grand Canyon paradise of Supai.  Waterfalls, swimming, camping, hiking, fellowship are all part of the mix at one of our favorite locations.  Requires 10 mile pack in and 10 mile strenuous pack out, but the swimming holes in the canyon’s magical blue-green water are worth it.  This year we will see how the landscape has changed as a result of 2009’s massive flash flood.  A new waterfall, Rock Falls, was formed, with what looks like a fun swimming hole below it.

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BIBLE-SCIENCE ASSOCIATION of the San Fernando Valley
Monthly meetings: special speakers, large creation book table.  Meets 3rd Sat of month (except summer and December), 7:00 p.m. at The Masters College, Newhall.

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