Our 2021 season is just winding down and it was by far our best...the best staff ever assembled, the best boats and equipment, the best groups of campers we have had the pleasure of working with and the best attitudes from everyone involved dealing with five weeks of rain from June through July! A lot goes into making a summer of camp happen so take a look below at some fun camp stats:
140 campers over 7 weeks (plus 10 campers at our Sunapee Day Camp)
Campers stayed an average of 1.125 weeks at camp
Average number of campers each week was 20
Campers were 27% girls and 73% boys
Average camper age was 13.66
54% new campers and 46% returners
Campers came from 16 states (CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, MA, ME, MT, NH, NJ, NY, OR, PA,RI and TX) as well as Washington, DC, Mexico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (we were closed to most international campers in 2021)
There were 7 coaches, 1 chef and 1 director
Average coach age was 19.7
3 coaches had their birthdays during the summer (Sam, Zoe and Elijah)
3,960 ridiculous meals prepared by Chef Cher who used approximately:
1290 eggs
370 pounds of flour
110 pounds of strawberries
60 pounds of chocolate chips (mostly in 860 homemade choc chip muffins)
250 pounds of chicken
150 gallons of lemonade
65 hours a week of cooking (plus countless hours shopping)
75 five-gallon buckets of non-meat scraps fed to local hungry pigs to divert food waste from the landfill
5 pallets of concrete used to pour new cabin footings
11,309 unique visitors to watermonkeycamp.com in the last 12 months
9,278 photos uploaded and shared with camp families
540 hours on our 2 2021 MasterCraft NXT22's (Bob and Marley)
16 boat oil changes (plus 1 water pump)
3048.935 gallons of gas burned producing roughly 34 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 300 metric tons of CO2 since 2012!
Those stats do not really do justice to all of the fun we had this summer but hopefully it was a good read! We are hard at work getting ready for 2022 and I sincerely hope to see all of our campers back again for great times on the boats!
-Evan