Meet our Blog Writer – Intern Emma Harte!

Emma is a junior at Cornell who is interested in science communication and the effects of climate change on ecosystems. She studies Biological Sciences with a concentration in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. In addition to writing blog posts for us, Emma teaches...
Have you reached your Tripping Point?!

Have you reached your Tripping Point?!

DCL Director Bill, teaching virtually in our office building at the Tompkins Center for History & Culture After more than a year of the COVID-19 pandemic and a cold winter, most of us are a bit stir crazy and feeling ready for a vacation! Many of us have been...
Signs of Spring: The Ospreys Return!

Signs of Spring: The Ospreys Return!

While snow still covers the ground in some places, the first signs of spring have already arrived in Ithaca. As temperatures rise, the robins begin to welcome the morning with song: Cheerily, cheer up, cheer up, cheerily, cheer up! Brightly-colored buds burst out from...
Nature as medicine

Nature as medicine

Are you itching to get outside? Between the cold weather and the global pandemic, many of us have found ourselves craving time in nature. While some have found respite in skiing or snowshoeing during the long winter, others long for green foliage and warm...
Teacher’s Recess is coming up in Ithaca!

Teacher’s Recess is coming up in Ithaca!

At Discover Cayuga Lake, we are all about education. We work with teachers year round in partnership with our Trout in the Classroom and Floating Classroom programs. As nature-lovers, many of us spent our childhood digging in the dirt and splashing in streams. Now,...

Rainbow Reward on Cayuga Lake

Once last year, we were about to start our cruise when the sky got suspiciously dark. We asked our guests if they wanted to stay on board given that it looked like there might be unexpected rain coming. We always check our radar before confirming a cruise so we were...