For two summers, 1965 and 1966, my brother and I went to Boy Scout camp at Camp Echockotee.  Mom and Dad dropped us off and we were assigned a tent that had a wooden floor.  I had a great time with there being all sorts of activities you could do, swimming, canoeing, wood working, archery and so on.  I liked the woodworking and made a wooden bowl which I still have.  I also took basket weaving and got my Basket Weaving merit badge.   In leather making I made a leather badge which you stampped different things on to a circle of leather.

I really enjoyed canoeing and really learned how to handle a canoe.  My second summer I got a bit more serious and earned the Swimming merit badge which took a lot of work including a mile swim.  But mostly we had a lot of fun.  One thing I will always remember was my brother David entered the critter race.  He spotted a giant skink which he caught the day of the race.  Come race time he put it in the middle of the ring and it was so fast it was out before any other boy’s critters hardly moved. 

  I made Tenderfoot class and then completed the Second Class requirements but never completed the First Class requirements before quitting Boy Scouts.

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