It was a great holiday, but...... the night a racoon broke into our tent and attacked us will live on in my memories.
... coming down a dirttrack mountain road with no fences with the back end of the car fishtailing about left me needing new underwear.
I'm off on holiday next week somewhere nice and safe. Tell us your holiday stories.
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rob, Thu 21 Apr 2005, 9:55)
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Thunderbolts and Lightening, very very frighteningWe did a practice expedition for our Gold Duke of Edinburgh award in Snowdonia. On the second day it was red hot and we arrived at our campsite sunburnt just has it started to rain. We stood around for a bit before someone mentioned that it might be best to get the tent up rather than when the rain got harder as we could hear thunder.
Despite several of us having been to cubs and scouts and knowing how to camp, we start putting up or metal framed tents in the thunder and lightning storm. Our teachers arrive race on to the field in the school van yelling for us to get undercover.
With our tents and stuff soaking wet, my friend and I watched a bolt of lighting strip a massive chunk of bark from a tree 10 yards from us. We spent a freezing cold and wet night and I thought I had hypothermia the next day when I got up.
S4C made a programme about the thunderstorm as it was one of the worst ones they've had in Snowdonia for 100 years.
(, Tue 26 Apr 2005, 20:28, Reply)
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