Personal Narrative: Canoeing Trip To The Ichetucknee River

Have you ever taken a camping trip when you were younger with your family or a group of friends? Well when I was about sixteen, I went on a canoeing trip to the Ichetucknee river with a BSA (boy scouts of America) crew. We had canoed the hole 12 miles which held an abundance of alluring sites to behold. There were manatees, turtles and tons of fish and much more to see.
Once a year troop 123 goes on a canoeing trip to the Ichetucknee river which is a long all-day trip that is six miles long. The scout leader told everyone who is going to get with their assigned patrols and make your meal plans for this weekend's trip. So, we did just that and made our meal plans for Saturday morning, lunch, and diner as for Sunday morning and we stop at a fast food eatery on the way back. Everyone prepares the meal cooks and clean though shifts that way the workload is shared. We also decide tent partners and whoever is tenting together is also, the person you will be canoeing with. Upon, Friday night we all met up checked everyone's bags then packed everything into the trailer. Then checked the …show more content…
Then a head count of everyone there. We then proceed to get everyone in the water. Now that everyone is situated. We can now enjoy a nice day canoeing down the Ichetucknee river a gorgeous and bone chilling river water with many springs flowing into it with crystal clear water unclouded by pollution. We saw logs with turtles all over them not even an inch of space some even piled on top of one another. Every once in a while, we even saw the manatees swimming all around us you could even pet them if you so desired. A little bit later we got to a spot where we could hoop out of the canoes and even float alongside them and a lot of different creatures in the