The SEC team did 30 mile paddle in one day on the Suwanee trip. This challenged the group physically and mentally. Most of the group members were in foul moods due to exhaustion and hunger. The paddle took eight long hours to complete. When we got to our destination we set up camp and began cooking dinner. We then had to take down camp to go to the campsite because we stopped at a boat ramp and we couldn't sleep there, which blew big pink bubbles, because we had to take down camp repack the canoes and paddle upstream though an eddy to reach our campsite. The path was flooded so it was sketchy paddling around the trees in the darkness of the night with only headlamps to guide us. Some of the students took the tents and set them up at the campsite while dinner was being cooked.
When dinner was over we got all our stuff packed in the canoes and began paddling to the campsite, which did not take very long to get to. the team got the rest of the chores done and went to bed. The next morning we found out the host was a cranky-old dude who made us clean the bathrooms, which was annoying, but we got it done. Some boy scouts came and trashed the bathroom so the grouch said we did a bad job and some of the members had to clean half before the boy scouts admitted they trashed it. Some of them had rather ill mouths while going to clean the bathroom. We finally got to paddle to a national park where we did some community service, which was raking leaves and helping take a tree down. After we did the community service we got to swim in the spring, which felt really good on the hot day, and finally finished up the expedition. Most of us forgot to put sunscreen on so we got burned. The final spring's water was so crystal clear that we saw turtles swimming, and the animal that gives the spring its name, the manatees. This was one fun expedition because it challenged us and helped us enjoy the river.
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