I’m so excited about Surf Camps new Surf and SCUBA specialty camp.  I got my dive certification back when I was 18 and it’s one the best decisions I’ve ever made.  Since then I’ve had the option to dive while on vacation.  In the past 8 years I’ve dove in Santa Catalina Island, California; the Bahamas; West Palm Beach, Florida; the dry Tortugas; Hawaii; Wrightsville Beach, NC; the Outer Banks, NC; in the dolphin pools at my previous job; Byron Bay, Australia; and the Great Barrier Reef, Australia!!!  In fact, North Carolina was rated one of the #1 diving destination in the United States by Scuba Diving Magazine!  Through diving, I’ve been able to get up-close and personal with marine life that most people never get to see except on the Discovery Chanel.  Being able to breathe underwater and stay down for an hour makes you feel like you are just one of the fishes!!! 

If you’re thinking about coming to Surf Camp this summer and you have interest in marine life and learning how to surf then Surf and SCUBA Camp is most definitely for you!  

- Jenn R

Our new Teen Surf Camp Catalog have arrived! Everyone in the office was super excited yesterday as we flipped through the bright colorful photos that graced all 40 pages. The glossy pages with salty, happy smiles created a grin on all of our faces.

This catalog truly captures how special and unique our camps really are. What Surf Camp has to offer is truly magical, and the great memories and relationships campers have the chance to make! It makes me want to be a teenager again, and the common phrase in the office was “wow, I wish I’d gone to Surf Camp when I was a teenager!” (And that’s no joke!)- If you’d like to check out a catalog please let me know! I can send one right to your door!

*70 degrees today with waist to stomach high, glassy waves!

Kathleen

The title is not a missspelling but an inside joke for you, Bill:)

Some of the best compliments I recieve from returning clents are about how we seem to attract great people to our programs.  This is the truth- it seems like every adult surf camp I facilitate just gets better.  Now as hard as it would be to top our 2008 Costa Rica Surf Camp, I have to say that this session was right on par and even more magical in it’s own right.  The best part of my job is simple.  It is the fact that I get to know some of the best people I could ever meet.  This trip had Eddie, Debbie and Eileen who now mean way more to me then just Surf Clients, the lawyer crew from PA which could not have been any cooler, and Joe and Marcia from OH who were just a pleasure to have around.  Joe was simply determined to get his young frame up on a board, and boy did he succeed.  How often in life can you try something as hard as learning how to surf and then get your first sucessful stand up ride captured on both video and a high meg digital picture?  We all know surfing is very physical but it was about impossible to keep Joe out of the water. By facilitating these camps, it is easy to see why our clients are so successful in their own worlds, and what shear determination will do for someone who really wants to achieve a goal.

So the bros from PA……what can I say.   Put it this way, after breakfast on a couple of days, they would do an open ocean swim to our surf break, an easy 1/2 mile swim.  It tured out they were both fantastic surfers growing up and they picked up right where they left off. So many more stories to tell, but there is no need to tell them:)  All I can say is that I hope to surf with them again.  Bob S, had the quickest pop up I had ever seen.  He was so quick to his feet that he was dropping in on his own waves by the second day. Paul, “did you see the size of his arms” was just a go with the flow camper with natural athletic ability that made Dougs job super easy.  With his natural ability and level of determination, I really hope that he finds the time to continue progressing his surfing skills.

My favorite part of every day was the late afternoon. We would surf this bay everyday called Tortuga Cove and I must say that it is a magical place.  So magical, in fact, that I simply would not want to leave.  As the sun sank lower in the sky, the crowds dissapated and the frost would melt from my glass bottle of my coolade, and I would feel a unique calm just overtake me.  I am the first to admit it, when I am at home I run full throttle and take on way more then I should.  After a day of surfing Tortuga Cove, I actully feel the stress melt away and a certain peace overtake me that I normally do not feel in my everyday life. The cheeseburger and rice and beans that I usually ate for lunch everyday I’m sure also helped.

My only bummer was that we did not visit Anagada.  It would have been great to show everyone such a magical place! So anyway…… I will not recount all the incredible times and laughs we had,  but just let you know that every time I leave the Caribbean I simply count the days untill I can return to this magical part of the world.

- Rick