Past Summer Camp

When I was young my parents made many oppurtunities available to be to me to have plenty of outdoor/camp experience. My most memorable most likely was my Camp Otterdale experiences. I was a camper there for nine years and a counselor for three. I started by doing the regular two week intervals for a couple years, but as that turns out that wasn't enough time for me, and I started going for a month at a time.

Camp Otterdale was a overnight coed camp which offered a huge variety of activities with fun responsible staff. Just to give an idea of the activities we did here is a list:
Archery, mountain biking, canoing, kayaking, sailing, windsurfing, snorkeling, arts & crafts, rock climbing, woodworking, and even drama. There was other activities that were experimented with over the years like ping-pong, golf, but they never got too popular so not many got involved with it.

A fun side to the counselor side of the camp was that all the staff had camp names, so you wouldn't know their real names. My camp name when I became a counselor was Beenz, not sure where it came from just happened to get it. I had some of my most memorable camp experiences at that camp.

When I was on staff I was put in charge of Canoing and Archery, both of which I love. Sometimes they made me look after mountain biking, which was cool because I love to bike as well. Overall I feel that I learned most of my base leadership and outdoor experience to this camp, plus some of the best time of my life.