The Everglades expedition By Mitchell Wilkinson-Harrison

This expedition The Tickle Sticks went to paddle the everglades in Florida. We paddled 80 miles of the everglades and we stayed at different campsites. We saw many different kinds of animals in the everglades. We planned a nature walk to find some cool things. When we were finishing our nature walk it started raining so hard that some of my team members ran in the rain to get to our campsite. When the tickle sticks arrived at our first campsite, I got out of the canoe and the water was so deep that I fell in and the water damaged my watch. When the tickle sticks got up the next morning the tide was out about half of a mile. We had to walk our canoe to the water line.
On the last day of our expedition we got up at 2 am to paddle 20 miles to the ranger station where our van was waiting for us. When we were at New Turkey campsite when we were sitting on the beach trying to our night meeting when a raccoon walks to our campsite. Then we get to our campsites we will did some homework than we will go to do an active. On Valentines Day we stop at a sand bar to eat lunch and have some valentines candy and I share all of my candy with the group and the staff. I think the group had fun paddle the everglades and I saw a lot of wild life in the everglades. My group and I catch different kinds of fish and we stayed at different places to. On the first day of our paddle trip we paddle 6 miles to tiger key that was our first campsite. On the way down to the everglades we stayed that Logan’s beach house in Florida and we meet Logan’s parents again. Then the next day after Logan’s house we were goings goes to the everglades for 2 weeks. On some of the days when we padding the sun was out most of the time when we were canoe and we would get sunshine. Every night at our campsites all of the bugs and other things were biting us a lot. It was hard work to paddle in the wind was trying to push us away from the group. It was awesome to paddle in the morning before the sunrise was coming up and the tickle sticks saw some dolphins when we were padding in the moroning.