Summer camp in the on a barrier island down in the keys. (keyes?).
Short summary.
1: SHIT IT IS HOT. like 100 degrees and 99% humidity all day, every
day. At night the humidity goes up to like 99.9% and it’s even worse. But it won't rain.
It’s impossible to sleep in a tent so I slept in a hammock or even on
the ground. My friend Brice just slept on the picnic table.
2: Deer and raccoons everywhere. They’re like these little midget
deer and raccoons that evolved to life on the islands because there’s
not much food. Also they’re technically endangered because they don’t
live anywhere else in the world. Which basically just means you can’t
punch them in the face when they raid your garbage cans and wake you up
or rock your hammock and scare you in the middle of the night.
3: Jellyfish! I had an epic battle with moon jelly fish. I karate
chopped like 20 of them in half because (jellyfish are fragile) I was
trying to snorkel and dive over looe key. pretty much every third square
foot of water contained a jelly fish. I got stung about 20 times too
but twas just a flesh wound. I punched one and it exploded all over
brice and he got stung by its disembodied tentacles.
4: It’s HOT. Even more hot. I used about 30 oz of sun screen, luckily
only got some tanning. I kept rolling up my sleeves to my shoulders so I
could get a nice wife beater tan but it didn’t tan too much
. This
one kid Mike got 3rd degree sunburns on his knees and had nasty yellow
blisters because he is very white and Irish.
5: Gettin sea sick ain’t fun apparently. Brice caught a massive
mahi-mahi, about 3 1/2 feet long. The captain of the boat made him punch
it to death so it would calm down enough to get into the fish cooler on
the boat. Brice went Rocky on that fish and got blood EVERYWHERE. It
was sick. Brice felt a little sick after that, so he popped a Bonine,
which is sea sickness medicine you are supposed to take before being on a
boat (not during). Brice got really sick and puked up about 18 times on
the boat. He couldn’t keep any food or water down for next day and a
half so he got dangerously dehydrated and a lil crazy and started
talking to deer and speaking parel tongue from Harry Potter.
Now I’m back home and have a new appreciation for fresh water and AC.
Short summary.
1: SHIT IT IS HOT. like 100 degrees and 99% humidity all day, every
day. At night the humidity goes up to like 99.9% and it’s even worse. But it won't rain.
It’s impossible to sleep in a tent so I slept in a hammock or even on
the ground. My friend Brice just slept on the picnic table.
2: Deer and raccoons everywhere. They’re like these little midget
deer and raccoons that evolved to life on the islands because there’s
not much food. Also they’re technically endangered because they don’t
live anywhere else in the world. Which basically just means you can’t
punch them in the face when they raid your garbage cans and wake you up
or rock your hammock and scare you in the middle of the night.
3: Jellyfish! I had an epic battle with moon jelly fish. I karate
chopped like 20 of them in half because (jellyfish are fragile) I was
trying to snorkel and dive over looe key. pretty much every third square
foot of water contained a jelly fish. I got stung about 20 times too
but twas just a flesh wound. I punched one and it exploded all over
brice and he got stung by its disembodied tentacles.
4: It’s HOT. Even more hot. I used about 30 oz of sun screen, luckily
only got some tanning. I kept rolling up my sleeves to my shoulders so I
could get a nice wife beater tan but it didn’t tan too much
. This one kid Mike got 3rd degree sunburns on his knees and had nasty yellow
blisters because he is very white and Irish.
5: Gettin sea sick ain’t fun apparently. Brice caught a massive
mahi-mahi, about 3 1/2 feet long. The captain of the boat made him punch
it to death so it would calm down enough to get into the fish cooler on
the boat. Brice went Rocky on that fish and got blood EVERYWHERE. It
was sick. Brice felt a little sick after that, so he popped a Bonine,
which is sea sickness medicine you are supposed to take before being on a
boat (not during). Brice got really sick and puked up about 18 times on
the boat. He couldn’t keep any food or water down for next day and a
half so he got dangerously dehydrated and a lil crazy and started
talking to deer and speaking parel tongue from Harry Potter.
Now I’m back home and have a new appreciation for fresh water and AC.
