For many of us, the past few weeks have brought sweeping changes into our lives that have radically reduced our interactions with nature. Staying at home is incredibly important right now and we also recognize that it is very challenging! Especially as Spring blooms outside our front doors and beckons us outside.
However, our Assistant Director Jill has compiled a list of media resources to help your camper and family engage with the outdoors while sheltering-at-home. There are certainly many more great options out there, but we offer these recommendations as good places to start. Let us know if you have other suggestions!
Aurora Borealis Live Cam (recommend viewing at night)
The Best Outdoor Documentaries Ever – Outside Magazine
The Burke Museum (Seattle): Northwest Native Art
The Burke Museum (Seattle): Burke from Home
Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics
The Whale Museum (Friday Harbor)
Limekiln Point State Park (San Juan Island)
Camp Nor’wester YouTube Channel
While you’re virtually “going outdoors,” and later when you actually get to visit amazing outdoor spaces in-person, please research the history of these places and find out who inhabited them prior to the last few hundred years. Nor’wester acknowledges that the camp property on Johns Island, and the other places around the San Juan Islands we visit in our program, are ancestral lands of Coast Salish peoples. Johns Island was referred to by local groups as WȾÁEMEṈ before it was named by European settlers.