Something for Everybody

July 18, 2023

There are slews of photos posted from the past couple of days and they reveal Kingswood in our many personalities.  Sara accompanied the Intermediate boys to Lake Sunape where they met up with some same-aged girls from Camp WaKlo.  A couple brother-sister reunions took place as well as swimming and casual mingling. The boys saved their money for a Moose Scoops visit on the way home.

The stand-alone album for the Liberty Flume hike shows the many moods the mountains can project in a small time frame.  How ridiculous would it have been to postpone this trek due to light rain showers being in the forecast?  These hikers amassed 13+ miles of tramping with nary an interfering drop of moisture.

Look at those gorgeous photos of the lake posted in the Week 3 counselor pics set. What a unique setting we have here at Kingswood.  Trip pix show us at Mt. Cardigan, Mt. Piermont and toasting marshmallows at Pirate Cove. Again, every one of these adventures took place close to home.  We will never be the camp that drives 5 hours each way for a 30 minute guided rafting tour through some river rapids.  Many other camps do it.

My set of pix is the most recent, having occurred last evening on the waterfront.  “The ridiculous and the sublime” could have been the title to this post as we launched a new game, “Tarleton Trashball,” simply the water version of our very popular land game.  It was ridiculously amusing to watch this frolic, for sure, and all the players remarked that they would choose this activity again.  So, we left the various props in place.

Maybe it was not that sublime, but Todd sponsored a bass fishing contest off the main docks and I wondered out loud to him if the Trashballers were scaring away the fish.  Funny thing was that loads of small catches were had but only one was a bass, a mere 10 inch whopper hauled in by Ted O.  I got my biggest guffaw of the day when Todd made an uproarious announcement at the closure gathering which made it sound like Ted had broken the world bass record.

I’ll leave you with this thought:  It has been a wet summer and just a few miles to our west, it has been no laughing matter.  Here at Kingswood, we have suffered merely some road and beach erosion plus a few squishy patches on the fields. But, it also has been a warm summer.  Underscore warm, which is not the same thing as hot.

I am going to upgrade the summer weather grade to a B, as despite the nuisances of the rains, it has been mostly very pleasant to be out of doors whenever it is not raining.  That’s a huge percentage of the time, as those photos reveal each and every day.  Yesterday was noticeably warm, but at the post-dinner announcements, several boys were seen sporting sweat shirts. “I did not get the memo,” teased Tommy (wearing a purple sweat shirt and long pants in my album.)  At closure, I borrowed a sweat shirt from Shupe as a noticeable chill was in the air by this time of day.