Ahoy There!

Who all is an alumnus? I surely miss those times; always wished I would have gone back to be a counselor for several more summers. My parents live close by, so I still get to visit the area; but I haven't been to camp in a long time - the people are what made it and 90% of those people are gone now

I think these were my cabins... I'll have to find my records to confirm. Though I may be confusing some weekend camps I worked there with the summer session cabins.

1995 - Cabin 7
1996 - Cabin 15
1997 - Cabin 25
1998 - Cabin 39
1999 - Cabin 53
2000 - Cabin 59
2001 - Cabin 15 (CIT - SGMB)
2002 - Cabin 15 (CIT - SGMB)
2003 - Cabin 15 (JC - SGMB)

Worked several weekend camps and a few week-long camps (lifeguard, sailing, athletics, roamer) those were fun, but they're a blur in my head (you're there such a short time and pretty much show up when the campers do... it was very confusing to me because I was used to the summer sessions which are pretty different).

Certainly miss all of my old friends/counselors. It's cool to hear Hayes on 99.9; I saw his partner in crime (Doug) not too long ago. Apparently John Hyde is now the director? Coach is back at camp as well. Wish I knew what happened to the old 90s crew, well mostly the motorboating crew - there were several all-stars on that 90s staff.

5/29/2014 2:04:18 PM

Camp Don Lee represent!

5/29/2014 5:04:35 PM

Camp Caroline. Right down the road from all those camps I believe.

5/29/2014 5:18:34 PM

Camp Anawanna

5/29/2014 7:49:42 PM

camp kanata

5/30/2014 1:19:02 AM

I have been to Camp Don Lee twice. Neither time legally.
I used to drive by Camp Caroline everyday; my parent's lived about 2 miles away.

5/30/2014 8:54:49 AM

One of my childhood friends went to Camp Seagull every year, I think, but that was way back in the 80's and early 90's. I lost touch with him when I moved to Raleigh in 1994. Then, in 2005 or so, I found out he had recently hanged himself. Rest in peace, crazy old Josh

6/2/2014 12:09:48 AM

I went to Camp Seagull for one weekend on some sort of school-related trip. I remember hating it.

The outdoors and I do not get along.

6/4/2014 7:14:46 PM

I have about 8 years at Sea Gull / Seafarer. I loved that place. I was a JC / Service Corp in 1997 (last year for SC) on the Motorboat Staff.

6/5/2014 9:26:10 AM

Camp Trinity. The chillest of the church camps

11/24/2014 12:13:53 AM

no Camp Cheerio in here?

11/24/2014 8:53:08 AM

[quoteI went to Camp Seagull for one weekend on some sort of school-related trip. I remember hating it.[/quote]

I went to Camp Durant for a 5th grade field trip. We got to stay in really cool cabins.

11/24/2014 11:45:37 AM

^^I went there too! Apparently, I didn't change clothes for the entire week...

11/24/2014 11:53:25 AM

1991 - Cabin 2
1992 - Cabin 4
1993 - Cabin 10
1994 - Cabin 17
1995 - Cabin 33
1996 - Cabin 45
1997 - Cabin 56
1998 - CILT
2002 - Camp 1 (JC)
2003 - Cabin 3 (SC)

I may have been there one more year...can't remember. Also on motorboating staff...had a blast.

12/1/2014 1:11:53 PM

Quote :

"I went to Camp Durant for a 5th grade field trip. We got to stay in really cool cabins."

I took my kids to Camp Durant for a Scout camporee last spring. Oldest one might hit go for his first Boy Scout summer camp next summer there as well.

12/12/2014 9:34:48 PM

I went to Camp Sea Gull one year. I really liked one of the counselors so I made her a bracelet. It was cool.

I had to go to some kind of camp every day of every summer for almost a decade. So my favorite camping memory was when I showed up to horseback riding at Camp Kanata in shorts and flip flops. The instructor fussed me out, and the nurse saw it and felt bad for me. So I got to spend the whole week chilling with the nurse in the AC watching soap operas.

Also, bee stings. Bee stings were automatic AC/nurse time at any camp so they were pretty sweet.

And the year they let me do arts and crafts all day. I tie-dyed my little ass off.

Big fan of snack time. Also, any quiet time.

I also appreciated when the counselors decided that I had a "real condition" and gave up on getting me out of bed in the morning.

Summers were hard work.

12/13/2014 3:55:16 PM

i went to camp sea gull (i think) with my indian guides group back in the mid-late 90s. don't remember what year. and honestly don't remember much about it at all.

really, my main memory is just that they played that "YMCA" song a lot in the cafeteria/dining hall.



[Edited on December 14, 2014 at 2:58 PM. Reason : whoa...thought this was a chit chat thread...dunno how i'm allowed to post in old school]

12/14/2014 2:57:26 PM