The Tickle Sticks second expedition was to the Florida everglades; it was a blast. There were some cold days, but most of the days were warm and sunny. In my opinion, it was cool to go to the everglades because of the wildlife. There many different types of fish to see. We paddled about 90 miles total, so we averaged about 10 miles a day! We had many funny moments, for example on Valentines Day Mitchell shared his sweethearts with us. We all had a valentine, which made the day even better. Our schedule was hectic because we had a lot of paddling each day and we also had homework. We woke up at about 7 each morning and packed up our sleeping bags and tents. After we packed up we would breakfast! Once we had finished breakfast we would pack the canoes and then finally we would be off. There would always be incentives through out the day. For example we would have the opportunity to fish once our daily homework session was done. These incentives made me try a lot harder through out the day. Unfortunately we only caught about 10 fish because of the fish kill. ☹
The final night we were out we decided it would be great if we did one night paddle so we ended up waking up at 2 am to began our longest paddle day to our take out spot. That final day we paddled 20 miles. ☺ It was a long hard night but once we stepped back onto land we felt amazing. We also had decided to drive all the way back to Logan’s house in North Carolina with out stopping. We didn’t arrive until 2 in the morning. Luckily we were able to sleep in till 10. The next couple days were really fun and we were able to go to the rec center for our morning exercise. Our last night before heading back to base we all went out to the Chinese buffet where we gorged ourselves ☺. It was an amazing trip and I really look forward to Belize which is hiding right around the corner.
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