Troop 483 Blog

Every year winter camp has a theme, this year was Super Heroes (Super Gator – Camp Strake). We as Adult leaders cut loose and have fun. We do GEO Cash to find the SuperGator, teach merit badge classes, wear Super Hero Costumes, do the Scoutmaster cook off, and enter the Tall Tale Contest.

One winter, just like this, 23 years ago, a Nuclear Science Merit Badge course ran afoul. This resulted in a radio active gator, known to all scouts as Super Gator.

Super Gator, through the power of the Atom, has developed some amazing skills; like the ability of stealth flight. It is said that the stealth bomber was a direct result from studying the Super Gator. As with all Super Heroes, Super Gator can find lost scouts with his night vision or his jaw of life sonic boom. But the skill that I like best is his laser vision. And with his laser vision he can spot a single girl scout cookie, over a 100 yards away, instantly turning it into fresh hot buttered popcorn. For this reason, Super Gator is always stalked by girl scouts. Thanks to science, we can now track him, because he is radio active and we can use a guider counter to search out Super Gator. So with our trusted guider counter we’re off to search for the Super Hero Super Gator.

Thanks ASM Mr. Quint.