Me and a few friends - some old, some new - went down to the everglades and set up our tents. We didn't have much of an agenda the first day, so we just talked with each other and entertained each other with jokes, stories and speculation.
The first night I saw a rainbow created by the moon. It was dark out and it had rained a little, but after the skies had cleared a little there was a rainbow - ever so faint, but definitely there. It was astounding. I didn't know it was possible, but there it was. I'm not talking about the ring around the full moon, but an actual rainbow on the opposite horizon.
Just looked it up on wiki. It's called a moonbow.
The next day we packed up and went to meet the rest of our group so we could launch off in our canoes and paddle our way to an uninhabited island.
Needless to say it was a pretty cool experience. The sky was constantly the best part of the trip, in my opinion. We canoed against everything. The tide, the waves and the wind. It was so hard. I apparently did something to my shoulder on the way there, because it hurt so bad, I was shaking and I couldn't get any sleep, no matter how hard I tried. I finally came out of the tent and ended up getting a blessing from two priesthood holders and things eventually turned out okay. I was the one to sit in the middle without a paddle on the way back, though. Lucky me there was one person who had to sit in the middle the entire time. (I'm not really putting it off as luck, though)
There are so many things that I learned on this trip that I don't know how to express. I don't think anyone will be able to understand without going through the same thing.
But yeah, for those that want to do the same thing, I would recommend it in a heart beat and wouldn't mind doing it again someday.
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