A memory that really stands out in my mind is when we went kayaking on the fourth day. My partner was Terry Roberts, our day chaperone. We first got on our booties, then we got our vests and then we got our paddles. After we got our things we headed over to the gravel area and our instructor taught us how to use the paddles and he told us that the front person is the director, he meant the front person leads the back person in the strokes. Everyone ran down to the beach when he was done talking to get the kayaks, he untied them and told us to grab one end of the kayak and pull it down to where the water hit.
    Then he told us that the instructors would take us out one at a time and he told us about the signals like to rack up or to stop.
    Finally we got into the water and headed off to the buoys where we racked up and waited for our instructor. He racked up with us and told us to head out and follow him. We headed out and saw a couple of harbor seals. The instructor told us to not to go to close to the harbor seals so we respected that and we didn't go too close to them. We took pictures of them, and then we had a contest to see who could stay on the kayak without falling off. I came in second. Then we had a race around a certain area. Terry and I got in first place, but I think it is because she has more muscle than the rest of us.
     After the contest and the race we had a raid on Mr. Mushegan‘s group, of course we won. We had to flip the other kayaks over by jumping out and then flipping them over. Then we went out toward Avalon a little bit and then racked up for a talk about the raid. Then we went back to the buoys and headed in one at a time, while we were waiting to go in, a couple of groups jumped out of the kayaks and swam around until we had to go in. He pulled us in and we had to get out of the wet suits.
    This trip to Catalina is one that I know I will never forget. This is one of the best memories that I have of Catalina, and if I could I would want to go back again.