Quick Hello From Samantha S.

Hey hey - Sammi here. Exciting new details regarding the sandals resort (Arts Village). One of the cabins are built up with siding included! The bathhouse/kitchen is HUGE. Plus, it'll get bigger because I believe they're adding a wrap around porch to the exterior.

JR dug up Kaylee's mom's flip flop (she lost it in the mud a couple months ago). I heard he still has it in his office.
There's a roof on one of the buildings in the health and aquatics center. We got to choose the pool side awnings too! Fun colors there.

Okey dokie then, next meeting brings more deets so keep track of us.

-Samantha S.

Health & Aquatics Center Looking Good!

Your fabulous new pool (once it is completed) will be the central feature of the camp’s Health and Aquatics Center - a multi-purpose salt-chlorinated swimming pool with a zero-depth or “beach” entry for handicap access, bathhouse and training center.



Major funding for the pool was provided by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida.

The outdoor training center at the Health and Aquatics Center was funded by the Edna Sproull Williams Foundation.

Arts Village Taking Shape!

Things are changing fast at North Fork -

The sleeping quarters for the Arts Village are all up. The construction workers are putting on the roofs and walls. Soon there will just be a little building with nothing inside of them except light switches and outlets.

The beds that were chosen are bunk beds. The beds’ design is still being planned out. Four bunk beds per cabin so eight people can sleep in each.

There are going to be two doors and two really big windows followed by 4 smaller windows over the main door and the back wall from when you first walk into the bunk house.

These pictures are the same building within 10min during our visit.

Here is one of the ten cabins - with walls, doors and the first layer of the roof.

The next picture is the same cabin, but it looks different.

The building is made to withstand 150 mile winds. The designers are making everything handicap accessible and thinking of every safety precaution.

While we were at camp this building was wrapped in Tyvek – a vapor barrier to help keep moisture out.

If you look really close you will see the whole side is covered with the Tyvek, and then the door is cut out again.

The man in the blue hard hat is starting to cut the door out.

- More later - The Drama Queens - Troop 853

Everything's Changing !(:

hey everyone,

This month has been very busy for everyone. As we all know, Florida is full of rain & sun. Unfortunately, there has been more rain than sun these past few weeks. Some of the sites are on hold for now until the water dries out. The arrival center & the amphitheatre will start construction after the water is gone. Speaking of water, ponds 2&3 were sodded last week. Asbuilts(pictures) will be taken of the ponds to see how much water can fit in without it overflowing.

The windows for the buildings are in (: & the roofing started last week also. The aquatics building will have a metal roof, & I don't really know what the other buildings will have as their roofing, but I will find out the next time i'm there.(: The entrance road was named! if you havent heard about it yet, the road name is TREFOIL TRAIL !!!!! (:

The camp opening is approaching realllllly fast, & construction is really moving ! As soon as we all know it, we will be having campouts' & summer camp at Northfork(: I'm excited, are you?

More blogs coming(: (:
Kaylee

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!

Animals and Oak Hammock

So the last O.A.C meeting was pretty cool. I don't exactly remember what happened in the actual meeting part. Just a bunch of technical talk. Then when we went out on the tour, we saw animals. We went to the Arts village, I believe, and while we were over there, we saw turkeys. There were probably around 5 maybe 7. They were hopping the silt fencing. Then near the site manager's house, we saw deer. We were in the golf cart and all of a sudden one deer pops out of the woods and runs to the other side of the road. Then another deer, and another. I counted about 8 deer. We saw squirrels obviously, too.

Near the Oak Hammock - that's what we're calling this area south of one of the ponds - there was a little bunny that was blending in with the grass and dirt - I almost didn't notice it! That whole Oak Hammock area is so beautiful. There's trees and a fire pit and benches, and SPACE.

It'd be the perfect place to go camping. AND one of the ponds is almost right across the street so you could go fishing too. The best time to fish is either when the water has mist over it, when it's about to rain, or dawn and dusk. Anyway, well I'll stop babbling now.

Talk to ya'll later. -Samantha S.

Aerial View - North Fork

Aerial View of North Fork Construction - Oct 2009