The 2022 season, our 11th summer, was epic. We had so much fun working with our campers in their watersports progression. It was also equally rewarding to see the campers...returning and new...grow as individuals and as a group in the camp setting. Add to that nearly perfect weather and a dream staff and we could not be happier with how things went.
Here are some fun stats!
95.71% full (134 spaces filled out of 140 with 121 unique campers)
Campers stayed an average of 1.11 weeks at camp
Average number of campers each week was 19.14
Campers were 67% boys and 33% girls
Average camper age was 13.68 years old
46% new campers and 54% returners
Campers chose to wakeboard 45%, wakesurf 45%, waterski 10%
Campers came from 12 states (CT, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI and TX) as well as Canada and Italy
1 new camp game (beach kadima foursquare)
6 coaches, 1 chef and 1 director
Average coach age was 20
3,950 meals served by Chef Cher
75 five-gallon buckets of non-meat scraps fed to local hungry pigs to divert food waste from the landfill
10 day campers joined 3 coaches for a week of fun on Lake Sunapee
17,428 unique visitors to www.watermonkeycamp.com
7,706 photos and videos uploaded and shared with camp families
We clocked 514 hours on 3 boats…Maverick (Marley), Iceman and Bob (thanks Wheelan family for letting us have Bob back for a week while Maverick was in the shop)
Our boats had 18 motor oil changes, 1 transmission oil change, 1 blown water pump and 1 blown engine (yikes)
2,997.878 gallons of premium gas burned producing roughly 27.196 metric tons of CO2 which we offset with contributions to the Society For The Protection of New Hampshire Forests and CoolEffect.org . Our contributions this year will offset about 75 metric tons of CO2 with the extra going towards camper travel to and from camp!
We have now offset around 375 metric tons of CO2 since 2012!
And as a parting gift…here is a great fall recipe from Chef Cher: Apple Cider Muffins
We sincerely hope to see all of our campers back here in 2023 and to welcome many more fresh faces to the camp family.
Always feel free to email, call, write, DM, text or stop by to say hello!
Evan