Summer Camp

We had the amazing opportunity to set up a Summer Camp in Big White.  The Canadian Government sponsor one member of staff who is a full time student, and the school PAC decided to pay for a second member of staff from their funds.  So, the amazing Sara, a 17 year old from Beaverdell, and Lucas, an Aussie who ran the ice climbing tower, and who also broke his leg on the last day of last season and so had never made it home, became Big White Summer Camp employees. They organized activities every day, lots of craft and lots of mountain exploring and every week there was a trip off the mountain…sailing, bowling, swimming in the local lakes, parks, museums all for the vast price of $5 per child!!  What a blast…Lucy went every day….every day!  She loved it!  But it was the last week that proved the most exciting, well, for the children anyway, when they organized a camp out at Rhonda Lake.  No electric hook up, borrowed tent, no stove, no swimming pool with slides, not the glamping I'm used to!  Also, we had to do all the bear precautionary stuff like hanging all the food in a tree away from the camp.  These Canadians make out they know what they're doing but I wasn't convinced, especially when there was definitely this sniffing sound outside my tent at 5am…and I really needed a wee but no way was I going out there!!  Plus, we had taken a dog but he'd spent all afternoon barking at stones!!! So, was knackered and just slept all night…some deterrent he turned out to be!  However, besides that it was a beautiful night, sat by the camp fire looking at the stars and watching the space station fly over, we even did some wolf howling and listened to the sounds echo around the cliff.  Glorious experience, but maybe just the once!!

 Yoda…our protection…haha!!

Raft building, sort of!