Buildings, Landscaping and Animals, Oh My!

CEO Sam examines a Bald Cypress destined for the Drop Off Circle.

Hanging out near the Health and Aquatics Center.

Lynn and Sam check out the Aquatics Center. JR heads to the outdoor pool showers (the two blue poles in the center). The Aquatics Center is going to be a very colorful and fun space.

Lynn and I are amazed at the amount of light streaming through the Solatube in the ceiling of the Aquatics Center!

These will allow us to cut WAY down on electricity consumption!

Program shelter, cabin and new dormers on the main house at the Fishing Village. Once the decking is built the Fishing Village will feel like the Ewok Village!

Two different kinds of tracks follow the same path through the Arts Village. Can you name the animals?

Cabin (far left), program shelter (left) and Activity building (right) in the Arts Village.

Milestone: Phase I Construction 50% Complete!

We've all got reason to celebrate! Construction of Phase I at North Fork reached the halfway point this past week. Here are some updated pics of the areas currently under construction at your new camp!

Fishing Village

Hello,

We are the girls from Junior Troop 1345, here to keep you updated on the construction of the new Fishing Village at North Fork.

We were able to use the Main house at North Fork for our troop meetings last year, so it is especially neat for us to watch it transform! We took a tour of the construction. The changes so far are:

1) the entire back porch is gone....
2) the barbeque area is gone
3) the interior walls have been ripped out of the main house
4) all the wiring and wall studs are exposed

We learned that a building looks a WHOLE lot smaller when it does not have any inside walls. Don't understand why, but it is true. It was really hot inside the building! The construction workers start really early so they can get a lot of work done before it gets TOO hot.

Before the upstairs consisted of 4 bedrooms and 2 baths. Now it will be 1 big room with an outside balcony and stairs! More useful for a large group of girls! There are also going to be a total of 8 cabins in the Fishing Village unit, along with 2 pavilions. Each cabin will sleep 8 girls. There will also be connecting decks for the cabins (sort of like the ones at Seminole Springs).

We took a lot of pictures, as soon as we can we will add them. They will soon be taking down the A-frame! Will let you know more about that later.