New CCA Club Explores Florida
Joe Rogers
September 25, 2009
Filed under Clubs & Activities, Student Life, Top Stories
A midday sun shadowed by dark clouds reaching out from the horizon, covering the warm waters in a blanket of humidity, and a handful of kayaks cutting through the still inlet between walls of Floridian mangroves under a picturesque sky. It was an image deserving of a calendar, perhaps in the summer month of June, but it wasn’t too long ago that the newly-formed Florida Expedition Club took up their paddles and launched off into John Lloyd State Park and the epitome of subtropical climate.
Last Saturday, “Florida Ex” took its place among the line of new clubs as debatably the most active and set a precedence for many outings to come.
An early morning start at eight separated the “wheat from the chaff,” so to speak, and the attending members honed flashy new t-shirts along sunny coasts to participate in Coastal Clean Up Day. After doing their part, it was time to take a close-up look at what their efforts were fighting to preserve. Seven kayaks slipped into the brackish waterway, immersing students and chaperons alike in the endangered exquisiteness of a place unhampered by the developed world just beyond the mangroves.
Founding member, Meghan Mason, senior, shares her goal for the trip: “We wanted to start the club off on the right foot by influencing the environment in a positive way, as well as enjoy God’s creation by kayaking and hanging out at the beach.” The result was no less than exactly that, and as Florida Ex looks forward to creating future opportunities for more students to join in, the hope of finding a harmony and appreciation of nature is well on its way.