Saturday morning we collected seeds from ground cover for the state park service forest rangers, for a reforestation project:
It was a couple hours of stoop labor, but not too bad (the paper bag above has seeds in it, you can see one lady stooping to strip seeds in the background).
The Cub Scouts like Jack were paired up with Boy Scout patrols from the troop that organized the campout (it's a requirement for last-year Cubs to camp with a Boy Scout troop) and all made their own meals:
After lunch the scouts worked on learning knots and lashings and made a "monkey bridge" for practice, here's Jack climbing on it after it was completed:
Before dinner, Jack and I went on a bike ride. Here's a pic of him on the 1930's era Civilian Conservation Corps suspension bridge over the Santa Fe River (a tributary of the famous "S'wannee River" that is the subject of the Stephen Foster song that is the state song of Florida):
Here's Jack with a statue honoring the CCC workers who made much of the park's log buildings and structures, which still survive:
Saturday night the kids played "Capture the Flag" after dinner, this morning we struck camp and took down the monkey bridge and had a short church service. We used the air mattresses I got as an early Christmas present, and they worked great. Also got a no-batteries hand-powered flashlight with an AM/FM/Weather radio that we used all weekend, it was great to use Saturday night around the campfire to check on college football scores (listened to the SEC championship from LSU radio on AM, from Florida!). Weather was perfect, warm days, cool night.
Good times.
