WEEK 3

Cannon Report

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Ahoy! The Rear Admirals of HQ bringing the latest news from the Leelanau Crew Logs. 

How can these three weeks have sailed by so fast?  The Men at the Helm must be running with the wind to make this kind of time.  Even sending the CT’s to Canada for a week didn’t do much to reef our sails or slow the momentum of our first session with these young sailors.  Ro-Ho, what a week!

The first thing we did this week was send a group of young ensigns to the Manistee River, where they both hiked and canoed.  They returned confident and hardy looking, though upon further interrogation we learned a Kohahna Trip to the Manistee crossed their bow – a cook-off ensued…and the Sailors of Camp Leelanau were shamed with their uninspired menu!  A dark day for Leelanau Trips – but to shine a light on the lack of flavor in our Trips Menus is perhaps a saving grace for second session.

On Wednesday the term “the wheels came off” would be appropriate if this were not a nautical log.  Perhaps, “the oar locks snapped”?  How ever you phrase it the point is the same.  The young Sailors of Camp Leelanau awoke to Backwards Day!  Dinner for Breakfast, Breakfast for Dinner, Morning Activities in the Afternoon, Starboard was Port, the Bow was the Stern, we were joyously and comically all turned around all day!

On Thursday we raised the colors with a multi-cannon salute to our sovereign nation the U.S.A.  We steered the forecastle of our mighty Leelanau bark (the blue bus) to Glen Arbor to join our community of Michigan water lovers in celebrating the 4th with a parade.  The revelry went on into the evening with sparklers and evening swims.

Thus, bringing us abruptly to a grounding halt to the Three-Week session.  We celebrated the achievements and accolades of the three-week sailors on Friday with a hearty banquet from the galley and our Funny Awards Fire.  Commendations were passed around freely, every officer received a promotion in rank, and on Saturday morning we packed their seabags and sent them off, wishing them “Fair winds and following seas!”

Followed by some thorough deck swabbing and celebration of the Seven-Week Campers and CTs in preparation for a whole new session to dawn upon our bow.  We cannot wait to see what the coming weeks will wash ashore!

-          From the Desk of HQ