The Pool, Benjamins, North Channel

This post is written by Geneva: Hey everyone out there! Sorry we haven’t been updating you on the blog but Erin and I are here to catch you up. Well to start with, we just came from the Benjamin’s and the water is FREEZING!!!!!!! We have been having the best time of our lives (well so far). The first thing we did when we got there was go hiking and you won’t believe what we saw. Once we got on land (I drove the dinghy) we were climbing up these huge, pink rocks, and we actually saw a fox coming down the hill. My mom was bustling to get her long lens and you wouldn’t believe it (but we have pictures to prove it) the fox came right up to us not 2 feet away from me and it was almost like it was posing for us! The next time we saw it, it had caught a squirrel. Yum! The next day my parents taught Erin and me to….. Snorkel! I loved it and so did Erin, so much that our parents say they created monsters because we wanted to keep snorkeling in the freezing cold water. Later that day my dad took me around the island in the dinghy to see if we could make it around and we went really fast. I wanted to go snorkeling again, so when I got back Erin wasn’t there turns out she had followed us in the kayak and was going around the island. Her battery had died so she didn’t answer when we called her on the radio. My dad and I went looking for her but it probably took her 1 hour to get around the island with the huge enormous waves. When we went all the way around the island there she was sitting on the boat. I was astonished that she had made it all the way around. Well that’s one adventure she or anyone else will ever forget! The last day there we found our treasure. It was one of those plastic 50$ sailing plates and it was in perfect shape. We found it on the bottom of the lake! That’s one treasure but we hope to find more! That’s the end of what I have tot say for now! See you guys soon!

Update from Erin:


I will be writing about a place we went called Turnbull. Two of the couples we were traveling with split from us. We made up for it. We met 4 new people. They had two kids one named Eric and one named Becca. Becca was nine years old and Eric was ten years old . They had a sail boat called the Blue Moon.
They let us ski behind there dinghy. So we took them tubing and had a ton of fun.

I will also write about a place we went to named “The pool”. Wow do I have a lot to say about this place. Well, we got to go on a hike with the bugs buzzing in our ears. We hiked a mile uphill, then…we made it to the most beautiful place that I have ever been in my life. You could hear the birds chirp. You could not see the bottom of the water because it was so deep. The water was a blue, clear color but it was cold. I mean not cold dry ice freezing! I had to wear a wet suit to get in the water and it was still cold .We found a cliff that we could jump into the water. To warm up we did a little bit more hiking and we found the jackpot on blueberries. They were good even though they weren’t in season yet. Okay now back to earth, that night the mosquitoes were bad. What do I mean by bad??? Geneva counted 32 bites. Yah, that bad. Well that is my update.