Last Saturday, the 11th of April, was Earth Day for Biosphere 2. Despite the poor whether conditions (which you'll get to see a bit of, and which me and other suffered through :p), there was an amazing turnout. If my memory serves correctly, we had a headcount of nearly 1300 people in that day, exceeding our greatest expectations. There was even bets going around in the management about the headcount we'd get, and the highest expected was 450 people. Almost tripled that number.
Needless to say, it was one heck of a busy day. We had our open-style tours again, like the music of the sphere day. This probably eased a great deal of load that might've occurred had we done our regular tour style, even though the open-style requires much more labor, it allows a greater number of people to go through.
Regardless, we had a wonderful set up outside, with tents and everything.
A snack shop was set up on the lawn with plenty of tables for people to eat.
The tent wasn't complete without music.
And we had numerous "vendors" who came to talk on Earth day and present some of the things they were working on. We had people from all different professions, ranging from park rangers, to art students, to solar panel systems, to professors, and even to car producers (hybrids and electric cars)! As a side note, I was rather impressed when the guy who had the electric car came through. Except for the wheels on the ground, the car was completely silent.
Unfortunately for me, I got stuck with the job of guiding the "vendors" to where they needed to go, in the freezing weather. Thank goodness Val came along halfway through and offered me a jacket which helped immensely. But while I was sitting there along the road, I got some nice visuals of the weather.
A couple of "vendors" that regulars at Biosphere 2 might recognize were also there. The physics factory was present.
The herpetology club was also there, but unfortunately, due to the extremely cold weather, the snakes were in no mood to be outside, or even moving. They were rather lethargic.
We even had a person with some really neat birds come along. She probably had more, but I got to see a falcon and an owl.
Speaking of birds... I got the rare privilege of seeing a roadrunner running around near the stairway to the Biosphere.
Now what was this bad weather I mentioned? Well, besides the freezing cold, we got hailed on. Yep. Hail the size of BB's.
Needless to say, it was an exciting day (except for the cold), and hopefully we'll get to have more fun like this soon!
Slideshow of the photos:
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