Hi my name
is Chloe LeClair, and I am in the Travel and Tourism program. This blog is
about the camps I used to go to and the trips you get to go on. This is mostly
from mine and my camp friends experiences.
When I was
about 8 years old my parents thought it would be a good experience for me to go
to camp for the summer. This camp, The Taylor Statten Camps, was almost 4 hours
away from home and located in Algonquin
Park. Being young, nervous and homesick, I spent the first couple of nights
crying because I missed home. It only took me 3 or 4 days to realize that this
place would soon become one of my favourite places in the world. By the end of
each summer when I arrived home from camp, I found that I was no longer home
sick, but camp sick.
Photograph taken by Chloe LeClair at Camp Wapomeo
The Taylor
Statten Camps consist of two separate camps- Ahmek, the boys camp, and Wapomeo,
the girls camp. They are located in Algonquin Park on Canoe Lake where you can
see fabulous scenery and beautiful wildlife. Children from 6 - 16 are able to
attend the camp for the summer. The boys camp consist of different age
categories: Bantam, Pioneer, Mountaineer and Voyager. The girls camps age
groups are: Kiowa, Tuscie, Shawnee, and Ojib. Every age group goes on a canoe
trip and the length of the trip depends on how old the campers are. Some trips
take place within the park, and some venture to the outpost camps located on
Lake Maskinonge in Temogami. The camps offer many great and entertaining
activities that both the boys a girls can participate in. They have horseback
riding, high-ropes, rock climbing, tennis, basketball, swimming lessons, canoeing
lessons, arts and crafts, pottery, archery and much more. I remember being so
enthusiastic about everything that I was scheduled to do for that day. Every
day was fun, and every day was yet another great memory that would last a
lifetime.
Attending
these camps does not only give campers great memories, but also teaches them
useful skills and gives them an educational experience. I highly recommend it
to your kids if you are a parent, or to you if you are a young teen looking for
a summer teenage getaway. I have so many
great memories from this experience, many of which are from the people that
surround you and make your stay a happy one. I met people from all over the
world who attended this camp from Virginia (U.S), France and even from the
Dominican Republic. I still miss the smell of Canoe Lake in the morning, and
the sunrise and sunset on the lake, I miss canoe trips and sleeping in tents, I
miss everything about that camp and I am forever camp sick.
Photograph taken from http://www.taylorstattencamps.com/parents/camp-ahmek-for-boys/
Information retrieved from: http://www.taylorstattencamps.com/
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