BOO! HOLE Wimberley
OCTOBER 2022
Mimi Cavender
The night was right for fun and fright at Boo! Hole Halloween 2022.
Hays County Master Naturalists were there!
Boo! Hole Halloween festivities brought out hundreds of costumed families on the cool breezy Saturday evening of October 29, 2022, from 4pm to 10pm at Blue Hole Regional Park in Wimberley, Texas.
The annual Hill Country fall event, sponsored by City of Wimberley Parks and Recreation Department, was fun and free! Hundreds of families enjoyed a Trick-or-Treat trail with candy, games, and a photo booth. There was marshmallow roasting at the fire pit and a Haunted Hayride.
Volunteers with Wild about Nature, a family nature education outreach of Hays County Master Naturalist, manned table exhibits of bats, creepy crawlies, animal pelts and skulls—all the really cool stuff that sometimes gets a spooky bad rap.
Hyperlink now to this new state award winning video by Master Naturalist Bob Currie about HCMN’s Wild About Nature (WAN) Program. WAN was created by Master Naturalist Christine Middleton and has thrived with the avid participation of Master Naturalists such as Deb Bradshaw and Jamie Pettit, who are featured in the video. This cadre of trained Master Naturalist volunteers are available for Central Hill Country-related nature exhibits and presentations at parks, libraries, youth groups, and other appropriate events.
Hands-on exhibits and guided activities invite children and their parents to know our region’s aquatic life, its birds, mammals, reptiles, insects—the wildlife that gives Central Texas its rich diversity, its unique beauty. Touch the coyote’s soft pelt, its fanged skull; see the delicate skeleton inside the bat’s wing. Go on a photo “bird walk” hunting our region’s must-know birds! Wild About Nature is always a popular feature at outdoor events, as it was this October at Boo! Hole Halloween 2022 in Wimberley.
Visitors rounded out their Halloween holiday evening with a costume parade and awards and a showing of the movie Hocus Pocus. It was just the right mix of family Halloween fright and fun. And a ghoulish good time was had by all.