A long winter and now a Springtime sprint to be ready for camp
(Above is the new & much larger porch of Eagle’s Nest & Tennesee with the zipline ladder now going right through a perch in the porch roof.)
If you missed our Fall post about big projects this year, we have been up to a lot. At this point everything above the Middler Cabins is history! All 3 old courts, the old Middler Egypt bath house, the fencing, cement walls, etc… are gone.
After all of it was removed the crew then actually scraped down about 3 feet of earth to give the whole area a somewhat bigger footprint to build on.
Now with winter having given way, we are moving towards putting the finishes on the new & improved peninsula:
There are 2 brand new tennis courts, side by side about where the 2 most used ones
were.
Then there is a 1/2 basketball court in the area where the “Lego court” used to be.
And lastly Middler Egypt is being replaced by a new, larger, more modern one very similar to the one added to Senior Hill a few years ago.
Then of course new fencing, walkways, etc… will go in at the end.
I first came to Mondamin from South Louisiana as a camper in 1979 and spent the next 9 summers here all the way through our Counselor In Training program. While attending Tulane University, I was a counselor each summer and have now been on the year-round staff for over 30 years. Before joining the year-round staff, I spent time both in teaching and child psychology. .
My wife, Susan, spent eight years on staff at our sister camp, Green Cove, and we have two girls and a boy all of whom have attended Green Cove and Mondamin, respectively.