Happy Birthday....America: Day 6

7/4/09
Chris Robinson AKA “Best Resident Assistant ever”
Wye Island, MD
We started off this beautiful Independence day with delicious pancakes; some topped with chocolate chips others with strawberries yummmmmm. Next the students and staff walked a brief 50 yards to Granary Creek, where they planted bay grass in the tidal waters. We did an amazing job planting about 17 flats of bay grass!! Though it was very mucky and muddy everyone enjoyed helping the Chesapeake bay. The next activity in the fun-filled day was a short one mile canoe ride to the west to a place called Dividing Creek. There we enjoyed a simple yet always satisfying PB&J lunch. Next on the agenda was a nature hike, where we stumbled upon one of the oldest Holly trees in the nation ( over 275 years old). We hung out there for a little while and then hiked back to our canoes and headed back to the campsite. There we played games until dinner time when we enjoyed a heart stir fry dinner. After dinner we headed to a nearby volleyball net where skills and competitiveness came to the surface. After a few hard fought matches we walked back to the campsite for dessert. As soon as the sunset, the students played a glow stick variation of tag in a nearby field. All in all, we celebrated the Birthday of America pretty well.