Tristan Carroll - S.O.A.R. Spring 2011 - Blog entry #2 - The Everglades!!!!!

Tristan Carroll                                                                                                           1/31/11

A storm in the Everglades!!!!!

I wake up to the sound of the waves. I say to myself “Today is going to be a good day.” My thoughts were wrong. Today my paddling partner is Ray Ray (Evan A). Before we departed we ate breakfast, then we loaded up the canoes. After that we did about two to three hours of school what joy. When we all were done with school we would depart to our next campsite.

            Ray Ray and I were very good paddling partners. We pirated other canoes and then we would force them to join forces with the S.S. Rumington. In total our booty was three wash bins and a small tackle box. After our pirating antics we decided to get serous. We paddled a long distance. I saw a nice grayish blackish cloud.  I look back at Ray Ray. He is so happy. The waves roll in. Rain is coming in all directions. Ray Ray and I paddle up to Nat. Nat tells us to paddle to an island. The cold rain turns to a numbing hail. Ray Ray is ecstatic. Hail is coming in all directions. After twenty minutes in to the storm my feelings towards the storm had changed. My feeling went from scared to excited. I knew that I would be OK because Ray Ray was in the back steering the canoe. He has been sailing his whole life; he knew what he was doing. Dense fog rolled in from our left. Lucky for us we were near Nat so we had some sense of where we were going. We are now roughly a mile or two away from a small-unmarked island. Ray Ray said that this would be the toughest part of the paddle. His instructions were to lean back and paddle. I did as he told. We surfed the waves on to a small-unmarked island. We beached at the island. We waited out the storm at the island. Luckily nobody perished. That was a good thing…. Sometimes! After the storm we paddled off in to the calm waters of the Gulf Of Mexico. We made it to our campsite at dusk!!!

THE END!!!!!

Thank you Mom for all you have done for me!!!!!!