Showing posts with label early days. Show all posts
Showing posts with label early days. Show all posts

Sunday, February 4, 2007

Early Days

We arrived the end of June (the 28th if I remember correctly) to discover that the camp's water supply had been deemed unfit for consumption by the health inspector - the chlorinator failed - and the pool was not approved to open.

Welcome to Camp Selkirk!
Welcome to being a camp director.

Philip was 2.5 years old, and Jason three years older. They loved the freedom and we loved the relative safety the campgrounds provided. We still had them watched by a sitter, but it was hard working 18 hours a day and making sure they weren't entirely bereft of our care.
The first summer Terry Murray looked after them...until we needed him for counselling and the second year Leanne Davies was their guardian!
The grounds were important to me, and I was always after the guys to keep the grass cut and trimmed. Here's Greg Eden riding on the mower. We had to send it into the shop for repairs each time he would run over a tree stump. Those darn tree stumps keep jumping out in front of the ride-on mower!