Campers Tricks A little advice, Try to take four gallons of water in your cooler that you can completely freeze. #1 it will keep longer than small ice and #2 you'll have it to clean and to drink as it thaws. Here’s another camper's trick. The cheap over-the-door shoe organizer that you can get at a dollar store is a great organizer. From kitchen stuff, river shoes, sunglasses, phone cases etc., you'll wonder how you did without it. So, with two of our kids and a niece in tow we head south for a week for some fun in the sun. We always stay at the same place, Camp Huaco Springs, because its clean, the grounds are immaculate, the mini store has what you need, and the noise has a time regulation. Every morning a golf cart drives around selling breakfast burritos and coffee. I honestly can't say enough good things about this camp. If you have small kids, they have an area not attached to the river that is a type of kiddie pool with a short lazy river. Parents can take shifts watching the little ones where they still feel like part of the excursion. Camp Huaco Springs facility has many options. You can be tent campers or supermax full RV in tow. They have something for everyone. They also offer rafting trips from this location. You can rent a tube and they will shuttle you upriver for full day and half day trips. I would recommend that you plan ahead and make reservations. This place fills up quick up because it’s a quality location.
The Small Things Mean A Lot It's imperative to find a place that has clean showers and I found that this property is well maintained. Trust me, it took a while for us to find the right place. We’ve stayed in some places that the bathrooms were so dirty that the smell was apparent before entering. The showers were never cleaned and to make it worse they charged you to get in. The small things mean that much more when you’re not in your own home.
Take Your Time Before Getting Into The Water Arriving at the camp and setting up our home away from home always takes a few hours. We are not the type to pitch a tent and rush into the water. We take our time and put everything in its place. With the heat though I did go jump in to cool off to keep from melting. We use a tenman three room tent because it gives us plenty of room to move around. No one wants to be on top of anyone else when its 80 degrees at night and just a fan to move air...no people there is not air conditioners in a tent. So, we use queen air beds with just a sheet over the top to stay cool at night. I also take a full-size gas grill; it makes cooking easy!
Allow Your Children To Help… It’s Great For Their Knowledge I must also add that our kids are old enough and have set up camp enough that they MUST help set up. My 13-year-old son, Lorenzo, being in his third year of scouts does not need help setting up, neither does my 11-year-old daughter Izabella. My niece Sunny needed some direction but was always willing to lend a hand. When we announce camping for a week some kids might be upset with the idea of being away from their WIFI, PlayStation, and cell phones...but not our kids. It is answered with joyous exclamations of happiness! All our kids are like fish they are avid swimmers, however, just to be extra safe with invisible underwater obstacles we always mandate a lifejacket rule on the water. Is it overkill? Maybe, but better safe than sorry!
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