Personal Narrative-War Canoe
War Canoe
Pfff, pfff,, pfff, “Time to wake up!” I heard, at 6:30 in the morning. It was Tuesday, war canoe day. I got out of my sleeping bag and grabbed my change of clothes. I put it on and stepped off the cot. Kevin, my tent mate, is up too. We put up our sleeping bags into the stuff sacks and prepare our other necessities into our bags. The troop leaders tell us we’ll be canoeing in the war canoes, which are to our disappointment, just giant canoes, to Parson’s beach. Everybody must keep paddling or we won’t get there in time. They estimated it would take 45 minutes. We went down to the waterfront with our stuff, and met the guides. We were going to haul the 100 lb canoes off the racks and onto PFD (personal floatation device) lines, …show more content…
I would be sleeping with Kevin and Joshua with Joseph. It was too hot and hard to fix any breaks, we added a “service window” by propping up a side of the tarp with twigs we scavenged. We added another one for their side and one more for ours, facing the ocean, where the wind would come from.This allowed more airflow to keep it cooler. Joshua and Joseph started complaining about how ours was taller because of the air pushing up on the tarp, so we added a window between the two shelters. The inspectors checked it and gave us the thumbs up, and we slept in it. In the morning when they woke us at 5:30 and the tarp was all wet from the condensation, but other wise it was fine. Then we packed our stuff back up and hauled the canoes back into the water and headed back to Emerald Bay, Santa Catalina Island, California. We got back just in time to get changed then go to breakfast. Although padding and the saltwater wouldn’t stop bothering my knees, it was overall pretty good because one: The saltwater disinfected my knees, and two: the shelter was amazing. It was really fun to make and we wouldn’t have to be cold during the night. It was all worth it. Not to mention the waves. They were perfect of wave jumping. War canoe had its downsides, but the good out weighed the water
Pfff, pfff,, pfff, “Time to wake up!” I heard, at 6:30 in the morning. It was Tuesday, war canoe day. I got out of my sleeping bag and grabbed my change of clothes. I put it on and stepped off the cot. Kevin, my tent mate, is up too. We put up our sleeping bags into the stuff sacks and prepare our other necessities into our bags. The troop leaders tell us we’ll be canoeing in the war canoes, which are to our disappointment, just giant canoes, to Parson’s beach. Everybody must keep paddling or we won’t get there in time. They estimated it would take 45 minutes. We went down to the waterfront with our stuff, and met the guides. We were going to haul the 100 lb canoes off the racks and onto PFD (personal floatation device) lines, …show more content…
I would be sleeping with Kevin and Joshua with Joseph. It was too hot and hard to fix any breaks, we added a “service window” by propping up a side of the tarp with twigs we scavenged. We added another one for their side and one more for ours, facing the ocean, where the wind would come from.This allowed more airflow to keep it cooler. Joshua and Joseph started complaining about how ours was taller because of the air pushing up on the tarp, so we added a window between the two shelters. The inspectors checked it and gave us the thumbs up, and we slept in it. In the morning when they woke us at 5:30 and the tarp was all wet from the condensation, but other wise it was fine. Then we packed our stuff back up and hauled the canoes back into the water and headed back to Emerald Bay, Santa Catalina Island, California. We got back just in time to get changed then go to breakfast. Although padding and the saltwater wouldn’t stop bothering my knees, it was overall pretty good because one: The saltwater disinfected my knees, and two: the shelter was amazing. It was really fun to make and we wouldn’t have to be cold during the night. It was all worth it. Not to mention the waves. They were perfect of wave jumping. War canoe had its downsides, but the good out weighed the water