by Caciques Caroline V. and Lindsey

Today, we went to Princess Keys and experienced our first taste of returning home to an environment that is not as aware or concerned with sustainability as The Island School is. As we stood in the heat listening to our tour guide, many of us were shocked by what we heard. Because of all we’ve learned here, we were interested to know if they were environmentally friendly. It turns out that our tour guide didn’t even know half the answers to the questions we were asking her. A lot of us starting thinking about returning home and what it was going to be like and how we could help to make a difference. But we didn’t have too much time to ponder about home because of our upcoming 8-day kayak andDownIslandadventures that were soon to come. Feeling intense anticipation, we are all very excited about our trips and can’t wait to embark on our upcoming journeys.