| |  | Like the smell of fresh cut grass, or maybe the sweet stench of your gas-soaked hands after overfilling your lawnmower's tank, the scents of summer are on the horizon! Humboldt is a bird of another feather in the summer, when the sun's out, the county offers so many different things to do. Unfortunately that does come at a literal and figurative cost, luckily for us the majority of Humboldt's offerings are in nature, and are therefore free, but finding the time is almost always an issue. If you have kids, this issue is magnified ten times as (for some reason) they're released from school and allowed to roam free for about three months and we're just expected to somehow figure out childcare while still remaining employed. It is unfortunate timing for me as the summer market is by far the busiest time of year for real estate transactions, but as they say, what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. In this case, spending countless hours slogging through the limited summer camp options available to our Humboldt County youth has provided me with the strength to survive the parental responsibilities of a seemingly endless summer. Through several years of trial and error we have found a handful of great summer camps that our kids (ten year old girl, and seven year old boy) have thoroughly enjoyed. Some of these camps are on the expensive side, around $400 or $500 per kid for a week of camp. In my opinion, the best camp they've ever gone to, is the Cal Poly Humboldt Camp Ocean Program. The camp takes place at the Telonicher Marine Lab in Trinidad and offers a few different camp options throughout the summer (Link - https://www.humboldt.edu/marine-lab/visit-the-lab/school-program )
Another great educational option comes from Cal Poly's Extended Education Summer Program (Link - https://www.humboldt.edu/extended-education/youth ). They offer multiple different art programs, and a handful of music programs as well.
My kids love sports and have an affinity for Cal Poly's different sports camps, such as basketball, soccer, volleyball, softball, and cross country camps for both boys and girls, all of which are conducted by the athletes on the Cal Poly teams! (Link - https://humboldtathletics.com/sports/2015/6/16/GEN_0616155252.aspx )
A few other local sports camps that my kids are trying this year are:
Basketball Jones Camp, they have a few different camps at local schools throughout the summer (Link -https://www.basketballjonescamps.com/arcata )
Humboldt Crabs Baseball Camp, they have multiple camps across the county, from McKinleyville down to Fortuna (Link - https://humboldtcrabs.com/crabs-camps/ )
Humboldt Wild Basketball Camp (Link - https://www.humboldtwild.org/2025basketballcamp)
Arcata High Baseball Camp (Ahhh, I can't find the link!)
Alas, we have reached the conclusion of this newsletter, I hope you were able to take away a few interesting points, and maybe even enroll your kids in a few summer camps, and if not thank you for reading and supporting my business regardless. And tune in next week, who knows, maybe you'll enjoy that edition a little better than this one!
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