Camp Winaukee

[KingPrat]

I got a job this summer at Camp Winaukee on Moultonboro Bay. Just wondering what people know about the camp and general opinions!

I have been to Winnipesaukee before and know the beauty of the lake. Can't wait to come back

Edit: spelling of Moultonboro lol

[mcdude]

They have an awesome WEBPAGE. Turn up your volume and check it out! Note the Countdown to Summer

[Grant]

We're directly across the lake from the Winaukee shore (there's an island camp on Black Island, and the "mainland" on Moultonboro Neck). Looks like a great facility, with a dedicated staff and returning campers. Very sports focused, from what I've seen.

My only beef with them -- and this is an old one...and was my late grandfather's pet peeve as well -- is their incessant use of loudspeakers. "Joe, you have a phone call," "Okay, get back to your cabins," and so on, booming across the lake at 7:30 AM and throughou the day... When I was a camper, we all went by the bugle...no loudspeakers. Must be efficient, although it is awfully loud and carries across the water.

However, after many decades of life with the loudspeaker, we're all still alive and loving life on the Lake, so no big deal.

Have a great summer.

[Coolbreeze]

Hey Grant, I'm surprised you haven't gone over there at night and rendered the Pa system out of service. Kinda "mission impossible" like.

[ApS]

King Prat and Grant: I'd suggest to the camp that the speakers be "aimed" away from the lakefront towards the camp itself.

But Grant's experience is reminding me of the occasions I rent on Lake Wentworth while my Winnipesaukee place is rented out [a net-gain, at double Wentworth's rent].

At mid-morning, the nearest girls' camp there sounds like banshees have attacked! No loudspeakers, just a hundred exuberant girls a ½-mile away!

Anyone planning on buying lakefront (or maybe anywhere near a camp) needs to experience this phenomenon first-hand.

[Grant]

Long swim...it would probably require a set of double high-pressure steel 120cf tanks...probably more...

Also -- I am a big proponent of preserving and supporting those few camps that remain on the Lake. Look what happens when they close and the land is sold...

[Seaplane Pilot]

Originally Posted by Grant

Long swim...it would probably require a set of double high-pressure steel 120cf tanks...probably more...

Also -- I am a big proponent of preserving and supporting those few camps that remain on the Lake. Look what happens when they close and the land is sold...

It's just a "camp" of a different kind.

[Weirs guy]

Originally Posted by Coolbreeze

Hey Grant, I'm surprised you haven't gone over there at night and rendered the Pa system out of service.

At least we know what to get him for Christmas.

[GWC...]

Just a thought; not a suggestion...

Maybe Santa will bring Mr. Bahre a PA system for Xmas, so Grant will be able to fondly remember the sounds of days gone bye?!

[Coolbreeze]

I know all too well about that "estate camp". I have to look at it during my time at our family camp.

I remember playing baseball for Camp Belknaps traveling team. I was thirteen or so and I was chosen for my talents as a ball player to go to Camp Alton on a away game. Camp Alton had huge White Pines that were growing around the ball fields. I can close my eyes and remember the smell of the pines and sound of the wind coming off the lake and filtering through their canopies, all while I sat the bench. Heck, I didn't care if I played, I was just glad to be there... I also remember as a young lad hearing taps through the woods of Barndoor island from old camp alton and revelie (sp) in the mornings. As a farily new parent, I can understand why my parents got so excited at taps each night, it was time for the kids all to go to bed.
What a awesome time of my life, what a lucky kid I was. The landscape may change but the memories are still as sweet as ever.

[Mee-n-Mac]

Originally Posted by Coolbreeze

Hey Grant, I'm surprised you haven't gone over there at night and rendered the Pa system out of service. Kinda "mission impossible" like.

Hmmm, how might such a thing go ? How indeed ? Aaah I can see it now ....

http://www.barbneal.com/wav/tvthemes/mission.wav

On some dark and foggy future night, a light drizzle falling to aid in concealment, Grant and Senter Cover Guy don their wetsuits. Carefully they open and inspect "the package". In it, divided into separate payload bays, are the muffling agents to be delivered. Equipment checks completed, they load the minisub with "the package". Silently they slide into the lake's murky waters like trained S.E.A.L.s (or perhaps more like seals or at least something from the seal family) and glide under the surface to the target beach. Emerging from the water they spot objective #1, the PA speaker on the 20' pole nearest the beach. Up shimmies Grant to deliver payload #1. Unfortunately they discover to their horror that wet wetsuits shimmy down much better than up. A moment of panic ensues but quickly passes. Senter Cove Guy has a new plan. Back, back into the cold waters and across the bay he goes. Grant conceals himself in the nearby bushes until a hiss of bubbles and few choice expletives (#$#$% rocks !) announce the return of his cohort. Unveiling the new payload delivery system, a Biblical David style sling, Senter Cove Guy smiles. "Now we can complete our mission !" Opening "the package" Grant delves into payload bay #1 and retrieves it's contents. One sling away ... and it's a hit ! Another sling and another part of the payload is sent deep into the throat of the offending speaker. A third, dang a miss, a fourth, dang ! another miss and finally a fifth complete the "delivery" for this speaker. Onto to the next target they slink, ever mindfull to remove their tracks behind them. Senter Cove Guy asks "Wouldn't it have been easier if we removed our fins ?" "Sssh, maintain radio silence !" comes the reply. Senter Cove Guy mumurs quietly "radio, what the ... oh never mind". PA speaker after PA speaker, the sling whirs with semi-deadly accuracy. Finally, the contents of "the package" depleted, the pair make their way back to the minisub and then across the bay to the comforting shoreline of homebase. Had there been any moonlight, their grins would surely have given them away. Several Advils (for the sore sling arm) later they agree to meet on Grant's dock just before 7:30 AM to assess the mission's success.

And so comes 7:29 AM ... bright and surly the duo meet and with a couple of mocha lattes in hand, they wander down to the dock. Cocking their heads and straining an ear they listen intently. High fives are traded when they hear, but only just barely, "Joe, hmpf mzzl a phfff zxll." "Somephf put fish in the spmhhers". The sunlight now reflects strongly off their pearly whites as even wider grins are exchanged. "Now let them tell me there are no rock bass in this lake" chimes Grant ! Mission success verified, the dynamic duo head back to their camps for a well deserved nap. Life is good.

[Grant]

Call Aaron Spelling, I see a telemovie in the making.

Maintaining radio silence,

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[Grant]

Originally Posted by Coolbreeze

I remember playing baseball for Camp Belknaps traveling team. I was thirteen or so and I was chosen for my talents as a ball player to go to Camp Alton on a away game. ... What a awesome time of my life, what a lucky kid I was. The landscape may change but the memories are still as sweet as ever.

Coolbreeze,

I went to Belknap, too ('70s). So did my brother (70s-80s), my cousin, and both of my sons (one had his last season last year, and the youngest returns for his second this summer).

Does this place look familiar? (A little February Woodcraft ceremony...)

[Coolbreeze]

Timi-hi, oh what a opportunity. Best summers of my life.

[Senter Cove Guy]

Summer Environment Acoustical Liquidation

Bump Bump, Ba Ba, Bump Bump, Ba Ba.....

[KingPrat]

Thanks for the replies!! Maybe I'll throw in a word to Freedo about those loudspeakers.

I'll be looking for Grant comin out of the water late at night

[Grant]

Nah -- no sweat on the loudspeakers...I'd be alarmed if I didn't hear them. I'm just glad the camp is still a camp, and that boys are having the type of summer experience on the Lake that I was so fortunate to have. I hope you have a great summer up there -- it's an awesome part of the Lake. Enjoy.

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