Word From Wildwood

Get Ready for Family Camp 3!

If you're registered for Family Camp 3: August 28-31, you should have received a reminder postcard directing you here! (Thanks for checking out the blog, and supporting our efforts to send you less paper!)

We're excited that we'll see you at Family Camp soon, and we hope that you're looking forward to your time with us. If you've not yet returned all your completed camp forms, please mail them to the Wildwood office in Lincoln, MA, immediately, or let us know that you’ll bring the completed forms with you to camp on August 28. (Don’t forget copies of your health insurance cards!) If you need a new copy of camp forms or the camp handbook, visit our website to download them. The handbook also contains a suggested packing list (p. 12) to assist you as you prepare for camp.

If you need driving directions to Wildwood, look in your camp handbook (p. 18), or get printable directions from our website. (Once you get to Rindge, NH, using a GPS or online directions is inadvisable.)

A few reminders and suggestions:

• Wildwood is a large camp, and you'll be happiest if you wear sturdy, comfortable shoes. We ask all our staff and campers to wear shoes or sandals with a heel strap (not flip flops), except at the waterfront or in the shower.
• Wildwood is a Mass Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary. For the health and safety of campers, staff, and wildlife, family pets may not be brought to Wildwood.
• For everyone’s safety, please plan not to use personal transportation like your own bikes and boats while you’re on site at Wildwood. (Strollers for small children are just fine!)
• Wildwood is a drug- and alcohol-free environment. Please do not bring alcohol or illegal drugs with you to camp or use them while at camp. Adult program participants may use tobacco products only in designated areas away from children.
• For high ropes activities, participating campers must be large enough for safety equipment to fit properly (usually age 6+).
• Camp is a great time to "unplug." If you can, please leave electric and electronic devices at home. (Platform tents and yurts do not have electricity.) Adults who need to have cell phones should plan to turn them off or to silent/vibrate mode while participating in activities. Cell phone reception at camp is unreliable.

A sample schedule for family camp follows. You'll receive a detailed schedule with activity choices when you arrive. Activities and times are subject to change based on weather and other factors. All activities are optional, but please let us know if your family plans to leave camp or miss a meal. If you are unable to arrive at camp as scheduled, please call the camp at 603-899-5589 to schedule an alternate arrival. If you haven’t made alternate arrival plans and don’t arrive at camp on check-in day, we’ll contact you by phone to determine when to expect your arrival.

Arrival Day

2:00-3:00 pm Campers arrive at camp for check-in. Please let us know if you'll need to arrive outside of this window. A staff member will meet you at the parking lot entrance with name tags and unit assignments. Next, take your luggage to the appropriate marked area in the parking lot, and we'll transport your luggage to your unit. Walk to your unit and spend some time settling in to your living space. Introduce yourself to the other families near you. Throughout the afternoon, join us at the waterfront to meet other families and enjoy activities! We'll have swimming (weather permitting) and several ongoing activities available.

3:30 pm Welcome and All-Camp Orientation in the Amphitheater

6:00 pm Dinner

7:30 pm Opening Campfire

9:00 pm Return to units to prepare for bed - Sweet dreams! 

Each activity period will include several options: swimming, boating, walks & hikes, nature activities, crafts, and field games. (High ropes course, sailing, and some other activities will be scheduled so that everyone who wants to can try these activities.) Family activities for adults and children together, kids-only activities for campers ages 5 and older, and adults-only activities will be offered during each activity period. We may offer an adults-only digital photography workshop, so bring a digital camera if you'd like!

Second Day and Third Day

7:00 am PBJ (Pre-Breakfast Jaunt)

8:00 am Breakfast and activity sign-ups

9:30 am Morning A Activities

10:00 am Morning B Activities

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm Siesta (quiet time in the units)

2:00 pm Afternoon A Activities

3:30 pm Afternoon B Activities

5:00 pm Family Time/Free Swim

6:00 pm Dinner

7:00 pm Evening Activities (may include: campfires, skits and songs, all-camp games, natural history activities, waterfront activities, or even a movie on a rainy evening)

9:00 pm Return to units to prepare for bed 

Departure Day

7:00 am PBJ

8:00 am Breakfast

9:15 am Closing activities

10:00 am Return to units for packing. Wildwood staff will pick up your luggage and take it to the parking lot. Please sweep your cabin or tent and place any trash into the large central trashcan in your unit before you leave!

11:00 am All families depart

We look forward to seeing you and your family at Family Camp soon. Please feel free to call us at our toll-free number, 866-627-2267, or e-mail wildwood@massaudubon.org if you have any questions!

Happy Camping!

 

Session 4 Rocks On with JC's and LITs Too!

Good Evening Everyone,

Glad to see you're checking the blog again. What a gorgeous day we had today - a bit cooler but sunny and bright. We'll take another one tomorrow please!

Lot's of great stuff continues all over camp. Tonight the pesky Heffalumps visited again and our campers were hot on their trail, collecting signatures and watching out for Mama-lump. Ask your camper more about this wacky activity. Tomorrow, we'll complete our IGs and DGs and we'll have a barbecue for lunch - whoo hoo! Then, tomorrow night is our closing campfire, which always proves to be one of the highlights of the session.

I was off site for a bit yesterday and when I returned, my bike had been redecorated - see below. I love it!

The LITs and JCs have been very busy with all sorts of great stuff. For example, they helped us with our roadside clean-up of a stretch of Route 119. Thanks! They are a real joy to have with us. The LITs were a major part of our evening program tonight, and they always set the bar high with their creativitiy and enthusiasm!

We're down to the final couple days of this session, so I hope you're enjoying yourselves out there. We'll see you on Saturday morning! Until then, enjoy some of these images taken over the last two days at camp.

Thanks Peter, Kelsey, Rachel and Mia for helping with the pictures!

Check Out Bob's New Ride!

 

Session 4 Underway!

Hello Camper Families and Friends,

Well, Session 4 is off to a great start. We've had sunny mornings and a couple showers late in the afternoons so far, but nothing enough to change any of our activities, except it was a bit cool to go swimming during OATs today. We've got IGs and DGs in full gear and there's activities in all corners of camp. Last night we began our evening programs for this session with a lively game of Predator Prey - a huge camp favorite. Tonight is Unit Night, so each unit will be doing some special activites with their campers. 

The Second-year LITs are currently working on a service project here at camp and you'll be able to see it when you return for pick-up. It's coming along very nicely! The Junior Counselors are busy this week shadowing groups and assiting at tables during meals. This, along with all the other great ways they assist us throughout the camp make us very lucky to have these both these groups with us!

We welcomed back the Maine Kayak Adventure yesterday afternoon after they spent their last day in Maine at Popham Beach, where they had a morning of R&R after a week of paddling down the Kennebeck River! They gave hugs all around this morning before heading back home - but not before they all headed to Kimballs for some ice cream! I didn't get to go... :-(

Tonight is "Bring a Letter to Dinner" night, so I better go and write mine, but take a look for some familar faces in the pictures below taken today and yesterday. We'll be back again, probably on Thursday for another edition. Keep those letters coming and we hope you're having a great week too!

Bob

Water Rockets - FUN!

Ready....Aim....

Session 3 Special Event Day and More

Hello everyone not at camp! The good weather continues!!! :-)

Another beautiful day here at Wildwood - mostly sunny and mostly warm - just right! We can all begin to sense that the session is nearing its end. We're all making sure that we visit all areas of camp and have a chance to take part in anything we've missed so far. As I mentioned in my last post, Wednesday was our Special Event Day - "Detective Day" - and there was a special mystery to solve. Throughout the day, campers faced a variety of challenges leading to clues to solve the mystery. You'll have to ask about the details... There are quite a few images below from this fun day.

Today, we were back on the ropes course, in the sailboats, on the stage, in the field - basically everywhere on camp. Tomorow we'll complete our final IGs and DGs and get ready for closing campfire. The second week always goes by like a flash!

Our LITs and JCs are continuing to have such a positive impact on the camp too. Tonight the LITs will help with our evening program - "Capture the Flag" while the JCs have been busy helping with a variety of different things here at camp including assiting with programs, helping in the dining hall, and working on a service project to improve our DG board - nice!

I've heard twice from our trekker group too. As of last night, they were moving well down the river and had seen a couple bald eagles - one apparently challeging an osprey for a meal. They've navigated a few rapids already and have learned some new stroke techniques to better manage their boats while reducing fatigue. A few thunderstorms passed through their area yesterday, one producing a double rainbow! Wait - this just in - I just heard from them again tonight and they had another great day with yet another eagle sighting. They are in the Augusta area now so they are moving right along. It sounds like they are on good pace to make it to the sea in good time.

So that's the news from here. We hope your time is also going along nicely. We'll see you all in just a couple days! Enjoy it to the last second and we will too. Here's some images from the last few of days to enjoy. Thanks Mia and Peter for some help with the images.

Best,

Bob

Welcome Overnight Camp Session 5!

(If you’re looking for the Session 4 welcome post, it’s this previous post.)

If you're registered for Session 5: August 14-27, you should have received a reminder postcard directing you here. Thanks for checking out the blog, and supporting our efforts to send you less paper!

We’re excited to see you at camp very soon, and we hope that you’re looking forward to your time at Wildwood. If you've not returned all your completed camp forms, please mail them to the Wildwood office in Lincoln, MA, immediately. (Don’t forget a copy of the front and back of your camper’s health insurance card!) If your camper’s prescription medications have changed since you sent the forms, it’s very important that you obtain an updated, signed medication authorization from the prescribing physician! If you must, let us know that you’ll bring completed forms with you to camp on August 14. If you need a new copy of camp forms or the camp handbook, please visit our website to download them. The handbook also contains a suggested packing list (p. 12) to assist you as you prepare for camp.

For driving directions to Wildwood, look in your camp handbook (p. 18), or get printable directions from our website. (Once you are in Rindge, using a GPS or online directions is inadvisable.) Wildwood is a large camp, and anyone at camp on check-in day will be happiest wearing sturdy, comfortable shoes. Remember, you may not bring family pets with you to Wildwood!

In the days before camp, please review the camp handbook, including the behavior expectations, with your camper. Make sure all items packed for camp are appropriate and well-labeled. It’s also important to keep an eye on your camper’s health. Give us a call to consult if your camper is injured, ill, or exposed to a communicable disease in the days before camp. We want every camper to arrive at camp healthy and ready to participate fully. If your camper is unable to arrive at camp as scheduled, please call the camp at 603-899-5589 to schedule an alternate arrival. If you haven’t made alternate arrival plans and your camper doesn’t arrive at camp on check-in day, we’ll contact you by phone to determine when to expect your camper’s arrival.

Here’s what you have to look forward to (families will join in on the bold days and times). Remember that activities may change based on weather, special events, and random acts of FUN!

Sunday (Check-in Day)

2:00-3:15 pm  Campers and families arrive for Check-in. If your family is new to Wildwood or needs to confer with the camp nurse, you may want to arrive near the earlier end of the time period. If you’re returning to Wildwood and don’t need much extra time before the Opening Ceremony, it’s fine to arrive near the later end of the time period.

• We’ll greet you at the parking lot entrance with a nametag and unit assignment and direct you to a parking space.

• We’ll help you take your camper’s luggage to the appropriate marked area in the parking lot. Please do not go to the living units at this time! We’ll transport your camper’s luggage to his/her unit.

• Take camper medications with you, and walk to the dining hall. Parents/guardians of children with medication/medical concerns will have a brief conference with the camp nurse. Parents whose children do not have medication or medical concerns do not need to see the nurse.

• Campers and families greet their counselors and unit leaders at the waterfront. You can also visit the camp store, set up a store account if you didn’t do so before camp, or make a purchase.

3:30 pm  Opening Ceremony for everyone in the Amphitheatre. After the brief Opening Ceremony, campers and staff members walk to their living units. Families may accompany campers to their units or depart directly from the Opening Ceremony.

4:15 pm  Final questions with unit leaders and family departure. Campers will unpack, settle in, begin to get to know one another, and set group goals.

6:00 pm Dinner

7:15 pm Opening Campfire in Amphitheatre

9:00 pm Cabin Chat (a calming end-of-day routine)

9:30 pm Sweet dreams!

Monday

7:40 am Morning Circle

8:00 am Breakfast

9:00 am Units rotate through camp tours, waterfront orientation, swim checks, health checks, schedule choices, and team-building

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm Siesta

2:00 pm Camp tours, waterfront orientation, swim checks, health checks, schedule choices, and team-building, continued

4:00 pm Open Activity Time (OATs)

6:00 pm Dinner

7:00 pm Evening Program (may include campfires, skits and songs, all-camp games, or special activities with your unit)

9:00 pm Cabin Chat

9:30 pm Sweet dreams!

Tuesday – Friday

7:00 am Optional Pre-Breakfast Jaunt (PBJ) Wednesday and Friday

7:40 am Morning Circle

8:00 am Breakfast

9:00 am Interest Groups (IGs)

11:00 am Unit Time

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm Siesta

2:00 pm Discovery Groups (DGs)

4:00 pm OATs

5:30 pm Unit Time

6:00 pm Dinner

7:00 pm Evening Program

9:00 pm Cabin Chat

9:30 pm Sweet dreams!

Saturday – Monday

Each unit enjoys a campout during the middle weekend of camp. On Wildwood’s property, Fossey and Thoreau campers spend one night at the First Point campsite, and Leopold and Carson campers spend one night at the Second Point campsite. Dillard and Abbey campers spend two nights at a nearby state park. During overnights, campers help set up and take down their tents, help with meal preparation and clean-up, hike, have a campfire, make S’mores, play games, and learn and practice Leave No Trace outdoor ethics.

Before campers depart or after they return, they’ll enjoy some time at camp at a slower pace: sleep a little later, do activities with their unit, and have time for swimming, boating, and playing together.

Tuesday – Friday, as above

Saturday (Check-out Day)

7:30 am Unit tidying (Luggage ready before breakfast!)

8:00 am Breakfast

9:00 am Return to units for group closing activity

9:30-9:45 am  Families arrive for check-out and walk to the amphitheatre. A staff member will direct you to the parking area. Depending on weather, we may ask you to load your camper’s luggage into your vehicle when you arrive. On a sunny day, campers and families should load luggage together after the closing.

10:00 am  Closing Ceremony. Campers and families reunite, followed by departure. You’ll be able to make any last camp store purchases or get leftover medications from the nurse. Pick up an address list and 2012 registration information as you leave the parking lot!

Please feel free to call us at our toll-free number, 866-627-2267, or e-mail wildwood@massaudubon.org if you have any questions before you come to camp! 

Happy Camping!

 

Session 3 Rolls on - Plus Teen Programs

Hello everyone,

Wow, another terrific beginning to the week weatherwise! After a bit of rain on Friday night, our overnight camp programs enjoyed a beautiful Saturday and Sunday, both at Mt Monadnock and here. By lunchtime on Sunday, all groups had returned to camp ready for week #2 to begin. It's been quite nice again today, with a brief shower and some distant thunder moving through mid-afternoon, but then the sun returned again! We're off and running with our new schedule of IGs and DGs. As usual, we have a special day planned for Wednesday, and we'll be sure to collect pictures to share with you.

This was also a big weekend for our teen programs. On Saturday, we said good-bye to our first session of Junior Counselors that had spent four weeks with us. This terrific team helped out all over camp and made a huge impact on our staff and campers. It was tough to see them go, We also waved good-bye to our second group of LITs, who had spent the last two weeks working here at camp and also at a number of conservation lands and other areas conducting community service. It seemed like we were just getting to know them when their session ended. Lastly, we sent off the trekkers who had just gotten back from Vermont's Green Mountains and Lake Champlain. They had a really great time hiking some of the local peaks and learning about life in Champlain while rowing a pilot gig out to a few of the islands.

On Sunday, we welcomed a new group of Junior Counselors, which we'll have for the next four weeks, and they are off to an amazing start. As I write this, the evening program (Predator Prey) is underway and one of the JC's is each helping to lead a group. Sunday also brought us the group of second-year LITs. I spoke to the two LIT leaders this afternoon to ask how things were going and they gave me kind of a funny look - which concerned me for a moment - but then they told me that the problem is that the LITs were blowing through all the challenges that they had set up for the first couple of days. Way to go LITs! Lastly, we also welcomed our final teen trip group of the season, our Maine Kayaking Adventure. They left this morning for their 6 hour van ride to the drop-off point at Moosehead Lake. I had a call around 3:00 pm saying they had arrived safely and started setting up camp for the night. Tomorrow, they will begin the journey to the sea in kayaks. I know I'll be hearing from them and we'll keep you all updated with the news.

So, although there's lots of other great stories from camp, I'll stop here and let you check out some of the images from the past couple of days at camp. Remember, tomorrow is our second "Write a letter home" day, so you should be getting another letter soon. Keep yours coming too!

Best,  Bob

Session 3 - Beautiful Weather and Camp Fun!

Hello Session 3 parents and friends,

Another gorgeous day here at Wildwood today! Lots of sunshine and warm temps - just right! We're moving along with our IGs and DGs and regular camp schedule, but all that changes tomorrow. Both Abbey and Dillard Units will head up to Mt Monadnock after siesta tomorrow, where they'll spend two nights and two days exploring the area and climbing the mountain. Carson and Fossey will host their campouts here on the property while Leopold and Thoreau will have "Guys Night In", a fun time when they are the only ones on camp, so anything goes. On Saturday, they'll swap with the girls, and head out on ther camping trip, while the girls take over the camp. It's a busy weekend of really fun activities.

See below for some images of what's been happening at camp over the last couple of days. We've had some interesting evening programs tonight and last night. Last night we introduced a new game for this year - Nature's Wrath, with some weird looking characters, and tonight was Heffalump Hunt - a camp favorite.

Our Mass Audubon Day Camp visits continue as well. We hosted a nice group from Moose Hill for the past couple of days and now we've got another terrific group form the Boston Nature Center. They are having a great time tenting and exploring the camp and even Hubbard Pond by boat this afternoon.

Our Champlain Trek has also been having a terrific time. I last heard from them last night, after they arived at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and headed out on their pilot gig - a large rowing vessel. They headed out about a mile to the island where they spent the night last night and were planning to do a clean-up for their service project today. They will be heading back to the museum tomorrow before arriving back on camp sometime in the afternoon. I'm sure they'll have more stories about the trip when they return.

The LITs returned this afternoon from a successful canoe trip down the Connecticut River in Vermont and New Hampshire. All in all they paddled 20-something miles along the river, and had a great time together. Tonight they were back at it here at camp helping out with the evening program.

And last but certainly not least, our beloved Junior Counselors, that have worked very hard for the past four weeks will be packing up to head home this weekend. What a terrific group of young adults this first session was. We look forward to the next group as well, but we will not forget all the positive ways they've effected us over these weeks together. I really hope we see many of them applying to be counselors next year!

So, here's some pictures from the past couple of days. I hope you see a familiar face or two!

Have a terrific weekend and we'll be back again early next week after all the groups return.

Best, Bob

Session 3 - Champlain Teen Trip - LIT Canoe Trip - and JCs Take Over the Camp!

Hey Everyone! I hope you're week is off to a good start, because ours is!

Yesterday the Champlain Teen Trek got off and headed for the Green Mountains in Vermont where they will spend a couple days before heading to Lake Champlain. We'll be back with more details on their adventure as they come in.

This morning the LITs departed for their canoe trip on the Connecticut River in Vermont and New Hampshire. I just spoke to them and they arrived safely and are waiting out a bit of weather before they decide just how far they'll get down the river today.

Here at Wildwood Central, we've had a couple good days of camping fun. After going through all the first day stuff yesterday - tours, health checks, swim checks, etc. we had dinner and then a terrific game of Grab Bag. Today, we had a beautiful day up until OATs when we saw a little bit of rain and just enough distant thunder to keep the waterfront closed. But there were plenty of other great activities all over camp. Today is "Write a Letter Home Day", and I visited Leopold during siesta and saw them busily writing their letters - see photo below. It's also Unit Night tonight, which means that each of the units will have their own activities this evening.

As our current Junior Counselors bring their four-week session to an end this week, they led a number of our DGs today, which was fantastic! They brought new ideas and activities to a number of areas of camp and the campers loved it! They also hosted a group of Junior Counselors from the Seargent Camp up the road today and showed them around our camp where they worked together on the DGs.

A group of ten boys and two staff from Moose Hill is also visiting over the next couple of days. They'll have a great opportunity to enjoy our waterfront, ropes course, evening programs and more!

So, here's a few pictures from the day today, and we'll be back again soon with another update. Keep those letters and emails coming!

Bob

Leopold Pondering Their Letters Home

I Caught Half the LITs Just Before They Left for Their Canoe Trip

The tomatoes are growing nicely!

Thoreau Helps in the Garden

Arts and Crafts for DGs

A Daring Butterfly!

Water Rockets Under Blue Skies!

Welcome Overnight Camp Session 4!

(If you’re looking for the Session 3 welcome post, it’s this previous post.)

If you're registered for Session 4: August 7-13, you should have received a reminder postcard directing you here. Thanks for checking out the blog, and supporting our efforts to send you less paper!

We’re excited to see you at camp very soon, and we hope that you’re looking forward to your time at Wildwood. If you've not returned all your completed camp forms, please mail them to the Wildwood office in Lincoln, MA, immediately. (Don’t forget a copy of the front and back of your camper’s health insurance card!) If your camper’s prescription medications have changed since you sent the forms, it’s very important that you obtain an updated, signed medication authorization from the prescribing physician! If you must, let us know that you’ll bring completed forms with you to camp on August 7. If you need a new copy of camp forms or the camp handbook, please visit our website to download them. The handbook also contains a suggested packing list (p. 12) to assist you as you prepare for camp.

For driving directions to Wildwood, look in your camp handbook (p. 18), or get printable directions from our website. (Once you are in Rindge, using a GPS or online directions is inadvisable.) Wildwood is a large camp, and anyone at camp on check-in day will be happiest wearing sturdy, comfortable shoes. Remember, you may not bring family pets with you to Wildwood!

In the days before camp, please review the camp handbook, including the behavior expectations, with your camper. Make sure all items packed for camp are appropriate and well-labeled. It’s also important to keep an eye on your camper’s health. Give us a call to consult if your camper is injured, ill, or exposed to a communicable disease in the days before camp. We want every camper to arrive at camp healthy and ready to participate fully. If your camper is unable to arrive at camp as scheduled, please call the camp at 603-899-5589 to schedule an alternate arrival. If you haven’t made alternate arrival plans and your camper doesn’t arrive at camp on check-in day, we’ll contact you by phone to determine when to expect your camper’s arrival.

Here’s what you have to look forward to (families will join in on the bold days and times). Remember that activities may change based on weather, special events, and random acts of FUN!

Sunday (Check-in Day)

2:00-3:15 pm  Campers and families arrive for Check-in. If your family is new to Wildwood or needs to confer with the camp nurse, you may want to arrive near the earlier end of the time period. If you’re returning to Wildwood and don’t need much extra time before the Opening Ceremony, it’s fine to arrive near the later end of the time period.

• We’ll greet you at the parking lot entrance with a nametag and unit assignment and direct you to a parking space.

• We’ll help you take your camper’s luggage to the appropriate marked area in the parking lot. Please do not go to the living units at this time! We’ll transport your camper’s luggage to his/her unit.

• Take camper medications with you, and walk to the dining hall. Parents/guardians of children with medication/medical concerns will have a brief conference with the camp nurse. Parents whose children do not have medication or medical concerns do not need to see the nurse.

• Campers and families greet their counselors and unit leaders at the waterfront. You can also visit the camp store, set up a store account if you didn’t do so before camp, or make a purchase.

3:30 pm  Opening Ceremony for everyone in the Amphitheatre. After the brief Opening Ceremony, campers and staff members walk to their living units. Families may accompany campers to their units or depart directly from the Opening Ceremony.

4:15 pm  Final questions with unit leaders and family departure. Campers will unpack, settle in, begin to get to know one another, and set group goals.

6:00 pm Dinner

7:15 pm Opening Campfire in Amphitheatre

9:00 pm Cabin Chat (a calming end-of-day routine)

9:30 pm Sweet dreams!

Monday

7:40 am Morning Circle

8:00 am Breakfast

9:00 am Units rotate through camp tours, waterfront orientation, swim checks, health checks, schedule choices, and team-building

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm Siesta

2:00 pm Camp tours, waterfront orientation, swim checks, health checks, schedule choices, and team-building, continued

4:00 pm Open Activity Time (OATs)

6:00 pm Dinner

7:00 pm Evening Program (may include campfires, skits and songs, all-camp games, or special activities with your unit)

9:00 pm Cabin Chat

9:30 pm Sweet dreams!

Tuesday – Friday

7:00 am Optional Pre-Breakfast Jaunt (PBJ) Wednesday and Friday

7:40 am Morning Circle

8:00 am Breakfast

9:00 am Interest Groups (IGs)

11:00 am Unit Time

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm Siesta

2:00 pm Discovery Groups (DGs)

4:00 pm OATs

5:30 pm Unit Time

6:00 pm Dinner

7:00 pm Evening Program

9:00 pm Cabin Chat

9:30 pm Sweet dreams!

Saturday (Check-out Day)

7:30 am Unit tidying (Luggage ready before breakfast!)

8:00 am Breakfast

9:00 am Return to units for group closing activity

9:30-9:45 am  Families arrive for check-out and walk to the amphitheatre. A staff member will direct you to the parking area. Depending on weather, we may ask you to load your camper’s luggage into your vehicle when you arrive. On a sunny day, campers and families should load luggage together after the closing.

10:00 am  Closing Ceremony. Campers and families reunite, followed by departure. You’ll be able to make any last camp store purchases or get leftover medications from the nurse. Pick up an address list and 2012 registration information as you leave the parking lot!

Please feel free to call us at our toll-free number, 866-627-2267, or e-mail wildwood@massaudubon.org if you have any questions before you come to camp!

Happy Camping!

 

Session 2 Rolls Along

Hi Folks,

I don't need to tell you that it's been a hot week - with the hottest day probably being tomorrow, but we're having a great time here at Wildwood. The pond has been kind to us, especially on the warmer afternoons when we love to cool off, but we're also spending some good time sailing canoeing and kayaking as well.

Tomorrow we'll complete our IGs and it will be the last regular day of DGs and OATS too. Boy, this week has gone by quickly! Tomorow night is our closing campfire, and that should be a lot of fun!

The LITs have been very busy this week with a number of service projects. They helped with our two miles of adopted road here in Rindge by doing a roadside clean-up and then helped to remove some unwanted vegetation at a local park too. There was some press coverage at the park today, so I will send out the link as soon as I get it. There sould be some pictures in there as well.

The JCs continue on with their terrific work here on the camp. Tonight, they are having a fun camp-out on Second Point. They've been assisting in a number of camp programs this week, and they'll be back at it tomorrow too.

Lastly, our trek group has spent the week exploring the White Mountains. Tuesday and Wednesday they climbed Rumney Rocks and today they hiked in to one of the campsites to spend the night. Tomorrow they will hike back out before returning to Wildwood. I cant wait to hear more about their adventures!

Well, enough talk, lets get to some pictures from around camp during the last couple of days.

Enjoy and we'll see you Saturday morning!

Thanks to Peter and Mia for helping with the pictures.