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Troop
7 made the trek to Camp Sawyer (on Little Duck Key, just North
of Big Pine Key) Friday the 14th of August, 1998. When we got
there at about 7:30pm it began to rain. Light at first, then
it got gradually harder. Lightning sporadically lit up the campgrounds
from a distance. We set up our tents just in time for it to start
to pour down on us. Tents attempted to flee the premises, but
we managed to stake them down before they got too far. By midnight
however, it had stopped and we returned to our tents to try to
get to sleep.
 When we woke up that morning we were rushed to breakfast,
but it was pretty chaotic so we just had cereal. Then we grabbed
our snorkeling/diving gear and headed to a local dive shop -
we got there about 9am. To make a long story short, we got on
a boat and went to Looe Key. We had 12 snorkelers and 5 divers.
We have a few underwater pictures from the boat below and on
the next page...
So,
when we got back to Camp Sawyer most of our stuff had dried out
in the sun, so we collected it and packed it away. Since our
SPL Tony C. was moving to Orlando, this was his last trip. We
started a small fire with a bit of Tony's help. Tony had to be
in Orlando as of that Sunday so he left camp early with Adam
S. and his mother. Roberto B. was assigned to take over as SPL
for the trip. Nick M. and JC M. were assigned to be our temporary
fire marshals. We had a short intermission to eat dinner and
play a card game "Futile War." After it started
to die out around midnight the two fire marshals extinguished
the fire.
We woke
up the next morning to eggs, sausage and some left over cereal.
We packed up our things and placed them in our vehicles then
preformed a check of the area and cleaned the showers. Then we
made the drive back to the scout house to store the campout gear.
Once we were done we all got rides home and rested. We had all
had a big weekend.
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Fred K | Roberto B | Surge Y | Robin B |
Barracuda |
Grunt (top) and a Grouper (bottom) |
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