Locals at the Bay

On Wednesday Sugar Bay was flooded with 100 campers all from Durban! We were lucky enough to host two local popular schools. First up we had Durban North Primary School and Durban Girls College. These Grade 6's and 7's were ready for action when they arrived, and they were excited to spend the next few days here just having fun!


 
A special request made by the teachers was that campers had to have Team Building this week. Both schools took this challenge by the horns! Basically how it works is that campers get mixed up into teams and then rotate to different stations where as a team they will have to successfully complete a task. We have five different stations : Trigger Happy, Obstacle Course, Skating on thin ice, Leaning tower and my favourite people machine.
The reason people machine is my personal favourite is, because teams have to use their bodies to create as many things as they possibly can in a certain amount of time. The best I have seen is definitely the toaster, and this week the best was a Jack in the box.
After team building it was definitely time for some fun. Campers got the chance to go and have some fun at the beach, on land and even went on an adventure. No matter where they were, campers were always full of energy, going crazy when singing songs and loved all our Sugar Bay Games!

Even though they were only here for two days they still got to participate in our early morning activities. Yoga was definitely a big hit, with 20 campers next to the pool while Stretch taught them the art of yoga. To get their bodies moving in the morning campers also had water aerobics.

Thanks you to all the campers from Durban North Primary and Durban Girls College! We hope to see you all back here for our Holiday camps!


Stay tuned to the Sugar Bay Blog, as next week I give your the inside scoop on whats going to be happening in Australia week! Have an awesome weekend everyone! Remember it's your world... <3


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