The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is a youth awards programme founded in the United Kingdom in 1956 by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, which has since expanded to 144 nations. I joined the Duke of Edinburg Silver Journey Award this year and Just completed the practice journey. We did many things on this expedition that thrived to help us get ready for the qualifying Sea Kayaking trip in March. The First thing that we did was learn how to take kyacks off Racks and how to move them on shore. We were then taught how to hold and use a paddle and pack a Kyack. We then got into the ocean and practiced steering, entering and exiting the Kyack With our guide Partick who is a Canadian professional Open Ocean Kyacker. We then returned to our camp to Set up our tents. We were then split into two groups one group made dinner and the other group (my group) Cleaned up the dishes and seating area. We then headed to bed in our small and hot tents. The next day my group washed the dishes after the other group had finished making breakfast they then headed to the beach to do some kyack training. My group stayed back and learned how to start a fire and then bake camping bread with Sujith Kant the head guide at Borderlands. We then made bread and learned how to read maps and use a compass with the owner of Borderlands Wade Campbel. After that, we had lunch and headed to the sea to do kyack training with Patrick again. We learned how to power the paddle and back paddle and how to perform T rescues and wet exits we unfortunately had to finish early because of the rain. Then My group made dinner for the whole staff team and all the students. We made fried rice with soya sauce, tomato spaghetti and a delicious deviled fish. We then headed to bed. In the morning We went straight to The Sea to do relays and practised emptying out water from a kyack. We then got back to camp and packed our stuff. We couldn’t take down our tents because it was raining too hard. We then headed back to school to end our 3-day trip.