6:00 We were all up for breakfast. We relaxed a little and walked down to do scuba.
9:00 Scuba with our scouts and Hondorous. We waited in line for only a few minutes. They made us take a shower before entering the pool. We got some pool briefings and safety then we all got in together. We had 20 minutes to swim underwater with our scuba gear. I have issues at work with face masks and such. But this did not effect me one bit. One of the leaders had a go pro and took some under water footage for us. We were not allowed to bring our phones in to take pictures. They threw us some booty (coins) in the water that we coup trade in for a patch. Lucrecia is the only one that had a hard time with it. She said her brain said it's not normal for her to breathe underwater. When we got out just about everyone wanted to go back in for a second time.
12:30 was lunch. We barely had time to eat before we headed to our bus for our afternoon adventure. We are not allowed to bring anything, only our clothes and a water bottle. The leader with the gopro was with Lyla and I. He was allowed to bring it.
1:00 We meet at the Delta camp for our rafting adventure. All of our campsite people from Foxtrot was there which consisted of 500 or more people. They moved us through in groups. They checked our forms and we watch a video. We managed to keep all our people together. Went went for a 30 miniite ride. At the river site there was all the raft guides and our boats. We had 9 people in out boat. Only 2 of the 9 we did not know. This adventure was an advanced course just for Venture crews. I was toward the back and Lyla was towards the middle. When we all got in the boat we practice paddling skills. Then we were on our way. The mountains we're enormous. The rock formations were beautiful. Our first rapid was a class 4. It was great the water was flowing over a waterfall. When we got the bottom of the fall water splashed everywhere. Then the guide gave us some history of the area. That there were cities all along this part of the river that logged trees. Each city paid it's residents in their cities currency that coup only be used in that city. They said people were so poor there that most people never left the river. They said the residents were terrified of the river. The logs were sent off by rail. As we flowed through the beautiful mountain rock sculpted landscape you coil see reminants of the old city. Pretty cool an beautiful to see. We got to swim 2 times in the river. The first time I went in but I had no strength to pull myself back in the boat. There was this man in the boat and he used all of his strength to get me in lol. The second time I said I'm good, that couldn't put that man though that again. Lyla did the second swim. She had gotten to the front of the boat to ride the nose. They gave her the helmet. So whenever I get copies I the videos you will know that the second swim is from Lyla's point of view. All the rapids we went on were class 4 & 5's. We went through each rapid forward, backwards and even spinning in all directions. It was a great ride. Earlier in my blog I took a picture of the gorge and the mountain view. Our rafting adventure ended at that bridge I took that picture from. The bridge was way up in the air. Also there was a bridge that was a lot lower. It was the old bridge that those old towns used to travel on. The picture below I stole from the internet so you could see the view. At the bridge is where we gr off the river. It was a recreational area. There was a lot of families there letting the kids swim in the river. We were the 3 to last boat coming out of the river. Also the sends to last bus back at camp.
6:00 we returned to camp. We all just relaxed and the kids went around camp visiting and hanging out at the pavilion for the talent show.
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