REVES DE MER

VSF Camp 6 – Age 8/13

« Séjour Sports et Découverte »

Immersion Ratio (per group): 20 French campers / 3 Foreign campers

Activities

Sailing:
Initiation in sailing on a Fun boat !
In Port Leucate, campers will learn together and individually, under the supervision of professionals, the basics of Sailing on the Lake Marin: they will study the boat, and it’s equipment, techniques of navigation, and they will learn how to “read the wind”…!

Marine Carpentry workshop:
Like « Robinson Crusoe » our campers will build their own boat to escape from their island…together they will assemble the hull of a traditional Catalan sailboat and they will be initiated in knot making on a 7 meters long sailboat which is high and dry (no danger of drowning then !). Finally they will create a board displaying the different knots learned.

Ceramic Workshop:
Guided by a real artist, our campers are going to design a collective Fresco following the theme of the sea.

Accrobranches (Adventure course at the tree climbing center):
More than 100 adventure trails in the trees! Zip wires, monkey bridges and nets … so much fun!

Sand Sailing:
It is on the beautiful beach “La Franqui” along the coast that our instructors at the « Yachting School of the Coussoles » will teach our campers together and individually, the basics of Sand sailing (trimming, boat handling change of directions etc…)

Kite Workshop:
Every child will have his/her own kit to build his personal kite, decorate it and competitions will be organized on the beach!

Drift fishing in the lagoon :
There the children will learn a typical local way of fishing called « La Pêche à la Caluche » a fisherman uses a boat to set the net 800 meters out to sea and the children who remain on the beach have to haul in the net, hopefully with fish, shellfish and crabs inside for dinner!

Hand fishing and net fishing in the rocks and pools along the coast.
A chance to catch small fish, crabs and sponges that can be brought back to the center and added to the Aquarium.

Other activities

• Building small aquariums
• Discovery and study of the local marine life
• Flying Kites
• Tales and legends of the Sea
• Games on the beach, 
• Beach Volley ball
• Hiking trips 
• ….and of course, Parties ! 

Choice of Field Trips

– Hiking trip on the « Leucatois Plateau »:
On this classified nature reserve (Natura 2000) overlooking the sea, we will use our binoculars to carefully observe the birds living in this area…a big breath of fresh air!

– Visit to a Local Museum

We had a lot of fun this summer in France because it was hot unlike in London! …but also because of all the different fun activities we had, like Char a voile which is a unique sport and also Accrobranches which was challenging. We really enjoyed this camp, the camp counselors and the director were very nice. We improved our French a lot and we made a lot of friends, French friends but also and Egyptian friend who participated also in VSF, her name was Alia. The food was also very good, it was overall VERY FUN !

 Alex and Daniel S., age 9/12, (UK)

Camp Location: « CENTRE DE VACANCES DE LEUCATE »

3 buildings surrounded by 170 acres of land, offering rooms with 5 to 6 beds with shower facilities on each level (2 stories high). A large dining-room divided in 3 areas (per age groups), 6 activity rooms, a show room and a small library as well as a circus tent and several playgrounds are there for the children to enjoy.
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TRANSPORTATION: With the VSF group (and the French children) by TGV train from Paris to Narbonne (escorted by the camp staff) – transfer by shuttle bus to the camp site.
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