The group of campers before we left ( I’m in the hat )

On a nature walk with Eva on the first day, who has a genuine
love of nature

Q & A before we boarded the A. J. Meerwald, an historic oyster schooner, built in 1928.

Once we got into the Delaware Bay we put out a trawl net and this is what we found: An eel like fish. Some male blue claw crabs
Croaker fish, Sea squirt, And a lot of hog chokers – flat fish

On our first day at sea we saw dolphins!

We spent the first night docked at Cape May, the only night that we were docked.

The next day we put up the sails and sailed though the night, we split into watches, half the crew and half the campers, my watch was from 7 till 1am.

During my time on the Meerwald, the 2nd mate
decided that I was good at steering the boat, so I was at the stern a lot

Looking down the boat at our Captain and 1st mate

Jesse, our Captain, showing us where we were on a map.

This is Lexi, who I spent a lot of time with because we were on anchor watch together, whenever people were sick they would eat
saltines and apple sauce.

The rest of us ate our meals, sitting on the boxes of life vests.

Each camper would have anchor watch with one of the crew, we would check the lights on the boat, longitude and latitude, and other things, to make sure we weren’t drifting.

There were people on the boat going into each grade 7th – 12th And the crew was around college age.

Alex and Dan on bow watch, when they saw something important like another boat or buoy they would signal it back to the Captain who
could not see.

Learning how to make bracelets