Not only did we have record turnout for the Polar Bear Swims in the morning (with all of the new scouts attending!), but we swam and canoed in one way or another pretty much every day.

I don't know why, but the picture on the left just cracks me up.  I think it's because I remember a moment just like it a little earlier in the day, when a bunch of the scouts were sitting down in the bushes, grazing on the many blueberries that could be found on the island.  All you'd see were their heads and bodies sticking up our of the brush, concentrating as they foraged, and it reminded me of a scene from "Gorillas in the Mist."

And lest anybody be overly worried, we were tipping the canoes over on purpose.  Not only is it a lot of fun(!), but it was an opportunity to help the guys review and understand their canoe skills as they had to work to get them right side up and useable again.  We always came back with the same number of scouts as we left with, which is generally a good thing.