Friday, October 12, 2007

Southern Regional High School

October 9-11, 2007

Fifteen students and two teachers made up the first group of Southern Regional High School students to ever participate in a three-day program at Sedge. The warm Fall weather continued allowing us to kayak comfortably to Barnegat Inlet and have lunch on the jetty. Several of the girls got to talking to one of the fisherman. After hearing that they were “camping at Sedge Island” he gave them a good-sized black fish to “cook over the camp fire.” We did cook this fish and added it to the other things that we had caught like soft clams, snapper blues, and ribbed mussels [Note: even with tomato sauce they are the only shellfish that I don’t like.) One of the big hits for that night’s dinner was the fresh tuna caught by Mr. Dorris a few days earlier. We ate it blackened, grilled and raw in Tuna Tar Tar.

The warm water allowed four of the students to snorkel comfortably in the thorofare near the house. Several members of the group were very experienced and they managed to catch crabs using short hand tongs. Other students stood by on the dock catching small sea bass with hook and line. Later that evening we lounged on the upper deck to see shooting stars, and lay on the dock to view spectacular bio-luminesence in the water.

Just as we were ready to leave to return home, thunder began to rumble in the distance. Although the full intensity of the storm didn’t hit until everyone was safely on the bus, we did get a bit wet on the crossing to Island Beach State Park.

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