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The Boy Scouts of America Troop 304 is charted by the Armed Services YMCA AMR, and meets on Fridays from 7:00 to 8:00 PM at the AS YMCA AMR building, 1875 Aliamanu Drive in the AMR. We serve the Red Hill/Salt Lake/AMR/Tripler/Moanalua area. The boys are between the ages of 11 and 17 years old.

Our activities include camping, hiking and development of many Life Skills through a boy led, adult supervised program. If you are interested in joining Troop 304, email the Scoutmaster, Ian Freeman at Troop304SM@gmail.com (808) 433-3555 or just come and visit us next Friday.

Saturday, February 2, 2008

The Troop convoyed out to Makua beach park/Yokohama bay for a Kaena Point map and compass hike of 10 miles. The weather was nice and cool as we started at 0800, but turned cooler especially with a persistent driving rain. We learned how to orient a map by terrain features and by compass, and hiked the same area we had overflown on our Young Eagles flight from 2 previous Saturdays. We had lunch at Kaena point prior to hiking back to the cars. There were numerous whales just offshore which we watched spout and surface--a few fin flaps but no flukes or breaches. We also saw 2 Monk seals on the beach at the point, and early nesting Albatrosses. We could not tell if they were hatching eggs yet, but saw no Wedge tailed Shearwaters in their nesting burrows, likely it is still too early for that.

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