Life at the Bay

Nothing beats a sweet treat after a delicious dinner. At Sugar Bay Resort, a holiday camp for kids and teens between the ages of seven and seventeen, the chef and his kitchen team love treating their campers to tantalizing, traditional camp desserts. Often kids dislike eating all their veggies and having a proper meal for dinner. The trick is to reward them for eating healthily. If you spare at least thirty minutes in your day to prepare one of these decadent camp desserts, you will surely have their plates cleaned out.  Sugar Bay’s camp chef, Joy, shared a few recipes of the camper’s most-loved desserts; 1. Peppermint Tart This dessert is a traditional South African dessert and the camper’s favourite. Quantities of ingredients are not included since they differ according to the number of servings being prepared. All you need is a Peppermint Crisp chocolate, dessert cream, Tennis biscuits and canned caramel. Begin by laying a baking tray with the Ten...

The best summer camp isn’t necessarily a summer camp with the most facilities or the best equipment. The best summer camp has the best counselors. Everyone wants to be a good camp counselor, and in order to do so, you would need to possess characteristics that contribute positively to the needs of the camping environment and the campers. Here are the top 5 characteristics of a good camp counselor; 1. Initiative   Taking the initiative of doing something before someone asks you to, is one of the most significant characteristics that a good counselor will need to possess. For example, if you see something on your path that someone could possibly trip on and therefore get injured by, you should take the initiative to remove this object, even if you didn’t trip on it. That’s what initiative is about. This characteristic is always needed at camp. 2. Selflessness   At camp, the campers always come first. What would you do if you’re really tired, and a camper canno...

Sugar Bay’s June/July holiday camps certainly warmed up these winter school holidays. We hosted four fantastic themed holiday camps and accomodated a total of 231 kids at camp.    Smurf’s – The Lost Village week: 25 June-2 July   We began warming up for the winter holidays by going on an adventure with the adorable blue little creatures, the Smurfs. Twenty-two campers explored the Lost Village with us this week. The kids enjoyed many fun activities integrated around the theme such as; Smurf Speed-Dating Date Night, Blue Carnival Night, Smurf Spa & Sports Day, Smurf Party Night and Papa Smurf Show Night. They also went on an adventurous camp out in The Smurf’s Lost Village, where they camped around a warm bonfire and played exciting games. Browse through our Facebook Album to see more pictures from the Smurf’s – The Lost week themed holiday camp. Bay Watch week: 2-9 July   Our campers got out their bathing suits, hit the shore an...

Sugar Bay is proud to announce that over and above the more than one hundred activities offered at camp, we’ve got our counselors to turn their talents and passions into specialized classes for our campers.    Three new and exciting activities were introduced by our counselors; Yoga, Spoken-word poetry and Beat-boxing.    Techno’s Funny Yoga Sessions   We’ve had yoga at camp before, but this class was given a whole new hilarious and enjoyable twist by Sugar Bay counselor, Techno.    “ My yoga class is a fun little meditation exercise, in which I invite kids to join me in a judgment-free yoga session, where we go through a couple of cycles and have a few laughs along the way,” he said.    The aim of Techno’s yoga class is to show kids new ways in which they can have fun whilst exercising and encourage healthy, active, living.    Techno encourages kids to join his class by making it known to them that it’s goin...