March Pow Wow wrap up

Guys, just so much to recap from a great month of mighty Creek activities. Please enjoy the photos at the flickr link to the lower right. Suffice it to say that camping, airboating, horseback riding, hay riding, flying, skeet shooting, and some great times with good friends made for a packed weekend of FUN. These photos can be double clicked, enlarged, right clicked, and saved to your computer. Don't forget these awesome memories which are being forged with you and your son!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND CHIEF CHUCKLES SEZ.................
Aho Super Creek!

My most humble apologies for not wrapping up the epic hike in a timely fashion.

What an awesome month!

First, thanks to Byron and Paul for spearheading the initial planning for the hike, and thanks to Byron for leading all braves through the soggy wilderness of 'way out west' Cocoa.

Once assembled, the braves were given a pre-hike etiquette/safety briefing from Watching Fox, who did an outstanding job. His plan included a mid-point stop for lunch - most excellent idea!

As seen by the pictures posted on the blog site, this hike brought forth a unique challenge in the hiking world, that of much WATER. The little braves forged ahead through this greatest of challenges with good cheer and perseverance. Our estimated 2.5-3 miler stretched into a solid 4 miler when it was all said and done! Chief was most impressed with Rob Jessup, who kept little Robert on his shoulders virtually the entire hike! Compressed spinal discs to follow.

Orange Monkey, Wolf Fang, Ice Lizard, and Wild Cougar all moved a great deal toward earning their bear claw with purple beads. Chief is still waiting on maps from a couple of those braves, and expects to hand out the claws at the next meeting. All of the other remaining braves more than earned their purple feather, which requires a two mile hike.

Much wildlife was seen through the trek, although the largest of lizards were thankfully avoided. The mighty Creek braves had casual encounters with a bald eagle, armadillos, racoons, black racers, deer, some obscure fish, and a rather large brown recluse spider (that one was avoided but well identified). Many animal tracks were identified by our bear claw earners as well.

Although shoes and pants ended up being somewhat waterlogged, the journey was a blast and a huge success. Nicely done, Creek!


Not to let the epic hike be the highlight of the month, the very next weekend the Creek traveled in record numbers to attend the state campout. In all, the Creek tribe had 36 big braves, little braves, squaws and maidens, representing 12 families, in attendance. Chief believes this number was greater than any other tribe in the entire state!

Not to go into who did what - but suffice it to say that Airboating, Skeet/Trap shooting, Archery, Horseback riding, open cockpit bi-plane rides (FREE to boot), and numerous animal shows and craft making provided a cram packed weekend for all involved. Of course, all of this activity was capped off by a phenomenal rodeo put on by the Westgate River Ranch Saturday evening. Those bull rider dudes are f-ing nuts! Personally, the highlight for chief was the five (yes I said FIVE) year old barrel riding cowgirl. What a great show.

Creek also stood proud in the war game arena with its entrance of the Trebuchet (built and briefed for operational use by none other than Watching Fox, Creek's resident geek engineer/fireman/wood dude). That thing hurled golf balls 50 yards. It rocked, and was a bonefied squaw magnet (ask Gray Wolf of the Bevilacqua family).

Thanks to medicine man for shopping to feed our army of a tribe two bodacious breakfast feasts. I think Grounded Eagle grilled up more bacon (seven pounds, right?) Sunday morning than chief has seen in eight cycles of the seasons. For those who did not indulge in banana pancakes, you missed out.

Creek wrapped up the camp in the most expeditious breakdown in history, to avoid the approaching angry dark skies. Chief is remorseful that he did not get to say goodbye. He and Rattlesnake went to return the pathetic rental bikes to the General Store, and learned that the tribe entered the 'exodus' mode while the bikes were being returned. To reiterate, this program is a HUGE success when the braves are as involved as the current Creek braves are, and it is a pleasure to be affiliated with this group!

Aho!

King of Snakes of the Super Creek Tribe of the Great Canaveral Nation

March Pow Wow

A morning airboat ride!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Braves of the March Hike

Post lunch assembly for the hike out!!

The hike on the "Toss"

Our March meeting was a hike at a local Wildlife Management Area. It was after a pretty heavy period of rain in Central Florida, so the trail was beyond soggy! The kids loved it!!

Description for Sunday's hike

What: A Walk in the Woods, 2 ½ mile hike with a lunch break about midway.

When: Sunday, March 14th, 2010, rally at 10:45, depart at 11:00 a.m. (please don’t be late). Carpooling is encouraged.

Where: The Tosohatchee WMA South Loop Trail (not the main park).
1.95 miles west of the SR520 bridge over the St. Johns River (by Lone Cabbage), the first left hand turn after the bridge.
N 28o 22.45’ , W 80o 54.26’

What to bring: Closed toe shoes, Long pants, water and lunch. We will be up to an hour from ”the real world” so bring your emergency meds (epi pens, asthma inhaler, Viagra, AEDs, etc).

Hazards: The normal hazards associated with a walk in the wilderness; snakes, bugs, fire ants, etc. Before approaching Taylor Creek we will recon for large reptiles and an adult will have point and 6 o’clock during the walk. I am sure the lil braves will be loud enough to keep the lions, tigers and bears away.

Tosahatchee hike

Guys this is the site of the next meeting!!! A day hike through the South loop of the "Toss" A great day out for dads and their Little Braves!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mark your calendars for April 14th. More info to follow. This link provides some sweet info on this Wildlife Management Area:

http://myfwc.com/RECREATION/WMASites_Tosohatchee_index.htm

Chiefs recap: Chuckles says........

Aho Creek!

Totally outstanding campout!

All of the hard work that went into the Creek pinewood horse fleet was well spent. All Creek cars were creative and fast or slow, performed admirably on the new and speedy Long Trail Track of the Canaveral Nation. This year's slowest times were faster than last year's nation winning time. So let your little braves know that even if they didn't win, they kicked booty over last year's entire nation in performance (we'll say the new track contributed 10% - LOL).

The Lizard and Cougar families kept in step with their tradition of building the tribal speedsters, and showed to be the four fastest cars in the tribe, three of which moved on to the finals.

Of those three, Growling Cougar took third place in the entire nation, with Running Cougar and Ice Lizard right behind, taking 4th and 5th in the nation. To put this into perspective, Creek took 3rd, 4th, and 5th fastest in the nation among a field of 86 speedy cars. To boot, these times were literally separated by mere thousandths of a second from the first and second place cars! Awesome job guys!

For those cars not quite as speedy as our formula one families, your little braves should all be very proud and pleased with the work they did. The coolest part of this event is the building of the cars, with father and son doing some wood working together, regardless of the percentage of who did what.

Chief fully expects that the Cougar/Lizard families will provide some easy to follow cook book steps in written form so that the rest of Creek may emmulate their consistent success in the future.

Following a scrumptuous Saturday evening meal of four cheese pasta w/stir fry veggies and salad put on by our master chef Gray Wolf (Sachem) with assistance from Chief, Watching Fox and Hovering Seahawk took to task the preparation of some serious chile for the Creek entries in the chile cookoff.

In all seven entries were put forth for the tribal chiefs to judge. Many entries were outstanding, including the two from Creek, but in the end, the chosen chile arose from the Chippewa tribe. You know all of the chile entries rockes as not one bite was left over after the nation finished chowing down. A great time was had and Creek hosted the cookoff in class style, providing excellent refreshment and condiments to accompany the entries. Nice job Byron and Rick! Large numbers of braves remained for quite a while, but as the time elapsed well beyond our quiet hours, the numbers slowly waned and all were retired prior to midnight, to commence blissful slumber in perfect camping weather.

In all, the weather was great, the races were great, the chow was great, the relaxation was great, and the comraderie for all braves big and small was great. Other than that, I guess this campout sucked.

Wait til you guys hear what we are planning for the March meeting. Mark the 14th on your calendars, because you will NOT want to miss this one. For a sneak peak, the idea was hatched Sunday morning between chief and medicine man, presented to the small group of big braves after breakfast, at which time Watching Fox elevated the idea to another level. When we thought it couldn't get any better, Gray Wolf of the Bevilacqua family took the idea into the stratosphere and is researching it as we speak. I'll just say this - if you think your little brave may be into guns, fishing, and hiking - then this event will be a MUST DO (to put it into Pletch 'speak').

More to follow.

Great weekend dudes -

REGISTER FOR STATE

Chuckles out