Settling In

  Our second full day of camp is amazing!  We settled into our activities and routine and experienced even more new things than ever before.  Of course we started our day in the usual fashion with cleaning cabins and breakfast.  Then it was one.  Archery, arts and crafts, swimming, canoeing, horseback riding
and rock wall climbing was just the beginning.  There was also the ever popular hike to the beaver dam today which is an awesome place to go visit.
  The newest adventure came for our Adventurers, Trekkers and Leaders in Training (L. I. T's)as they took to the high ropes course today.  Obstacles like the pamper pole, and zip line offer these campers the opportunity to challenge them selves and do things they never thought possible.  Setting goals and reaching those goals, expanding their limits those are just a few of the things that this group learns by taking part in these special activities.
  One of the special activities that takes place at camp is creek stompin'.  Now for those of you who are not sure what this is, well the name is sort of self explanatory.  Our campers get in the creek and stomp around.  Now there is a purpose to this splish splashy madness.  As they are stomping around they are looking for wildlife that might live in the creek and capturing it for everyone to have a chance to examine it before releasing it back into the creek.  We found crayfish, salamanders, and other aquatic creatures.  On our way to one of our stops we found a very healthy caterpillar trying to make its way across the creek which was promptly moved to continue doing what it needs to do, and placing in a place not as dangerous.
After creek stompin' it was time to learn about using a compass and orienteering.  Using a course mapped out in the woods the youth used their newly learned compass skills to navigate the course.

   Of course after a day of exciting activities we had dinner and got ready for the evening activities.  For those groups that got to do water sports the night before they headed to the camp fire for s'mores.  The group that had camp fire on Monday headed to water sports where they jumped in the pool, the lake, played dizzy bat, and lets not forget the ever incredible water slide.
  It was a day filled with fun and by the end we hit the showers and tucked ourselves in exhausted and ready to go at it again tomorrow.