Bay Area Older Adults (BAOA) is offering a variety of hikes, tours and seminars in May.
BAOA leading a moderate-to-strenuous 4-mile hike May 10 to look for spring wildflowers and butterflies on the trails of Cupertino’s Fremont Older Preserve, and learn about butterflies seen along the Stevens Creek Reservoir. Register for Hike 7 at https://www.bayareaolderadults.org/bao-hikes
Older adults can take an expert-led walking tour of the Silicon Valley water purification center on May 12 to see firsthand via interactive exhibits how waste water can cost-effectively be transformed into drinking water Santa Clara County residents. For more information and to register for Event 4, visit https://www.bayareaolderadults.org/bao-culture.
Dr. Merav Vonshak will lead a virtual seminar on ant ecology and social behavior on May 18, when she’ll explain the insects’ complex social interactions and how they developed agriculture and slavery millions of years before humans. Vonshak studied ants during her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. For more information and to register for Lecture 4, visit https://www.bayareaolderadults.org/bao-lectures.
On a 3-mile easy-to-moderate walk at Henry Coe State Park, hikers will climb a gradual hill for views of Braen Canyon, and then down through blue oak woodlands and grassy hillside meadows speckled with purple, pink, yellow, orange and white wildflowers.
For more information and to register for Hike 8, visit https://www.bayareaolderadults.org/bao-hikes.
Source: www.mercurynews.com