The 2019 Water Monkey Camp season was fun, full and over far too fast. Our eighth year of camp was again our biggest as we continued to grow (and expand to other lakes). Campers achieved insane progression and, as always, disconnected from the ‘real world’ for a week or more of pure enjoyment on the lake.
Now some fun 2019 stats!
133 campers over 7 weeks (plus 18 campers over 2 weeks of day camp)!
Campers stayed an average of 1.23 weeks at camp (longest stay by any camper was 4 weeks by the one and only Elijah Goldberg (15 weeks of camp since 2014!))
Average number of campers per week was 19
Campers were 29% girls and 71% boys
Average camper age was 13.74
50% of campers were returners, 50% were first timers
Campers came from 16 states (CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, OR, PA, VA, VT) as well as Canada, Dominican Republic, France, Morocco, Peru and Singapore!
6 coaches, 1 director, 1 chef and 1 pro wakeboard bum who lived at camp
3,596 gourmet meals prepared and served by amazing Chef Rebecca
500 pounds of food scraps diverted from the landfill to local hungry pigs!
38 delicious lunches provided by Tucker’s for our new Lake Sunapee Day Camp!
0 minutes of camper cell phone time!
11,249 unique visitors to watermonkeycamp.com in the past 12 months
220,000 ad impressions on Google!
15,371 photos uploaded for parents and campers to enjoy
16 crazy Tuckerman ‘blackouts’ on the beach
Campers were pummeled by 2,500 water balloons during Monkey Ball
Infinite smiles, laughs and good times
Average water temperature during camp was 77 degrees
272 hours on the black/black MasterCraft NXT22 (a.k.a. Betty) and 283 hours on the white/blue MasterCraft NXT22 (a.k.a. Fred) for a total of 555 hours of boating!
16 oil changes
1 broken propeller (hit a submerged object)
3304.432 gallons of gas consumed on the lake producing roughly 35 metric tons of CO2 offsett with contributions to cooleffect.org (specifically the Alto Mayo Conservation Initiative) as well as the Society for the Protection of NH Forests. Our total contributions will offset about 70 metric tons of CO2 this year with the extra offsets going towards camper travel to/from camp.
That is it for the 2019 recap! As always I hope to see all of our campers back again in 2020 for more watersports fun so please keep us in mind as you start to plan out your summer. I am always here to answer your questions so feel free to e-mail, call, snail mail or set up a time to visit.
Sincerely,
Evan Goldner
617-855-9253
evan@watermonkeycamp.com