Summer Break

Matthew Haring

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May 10, 2016

One of the many things one can do over summer break is to go camping and enjoy the outdoors with your friends and family camping offers a wonderful variety of choices on things to do such as making your own tent digging a hole to store things in such as a family or friend made time capsule to dig up at a later date you can also go hiking and exploring enjoying the outdoors and all it has to offer such as beautiful scenery a wonderful smell of pine or oak crisp vivid colors and the occasional wildlife encounter some of which can leave you stunned such as finding a doe and her fawn is quite a breathtaking sight.

Seeing any animal while camping is just as enjoyable as camping in its own regards wildlife has the power to make almost any trip magical and all the worthwhile you wouldn’t go scuba diving if you couldn’t see fish would you? Or what about sky diving you wouldn’t do that if you didn’t have a chance to see some birds would you? No of course not people love seeing animals in their natural habitat sure anyone can go to a zoo and see animals but they are not entirely wild they are captive animals and will behave differently than in the wild.

Camping is an excellent way of encountering these creatures because you are in their natural habitat the woods  camping also provides a chance to go fishing or even hunting for your own food or you have the option to buy and store foods if you don’t feel like walking around the woods for a few hours trying to decide which berries are poisonous or not then by all means stop at your local food shop and stock up on all your favorite goodies but don’t bring electronics aside from a cellphone for emergencies technology ruins camping what good is spending your time away from home if you’re just gonna do everything you do at home while camping?

While camping you also have an opportunity to sit around a campfire and make s’mores bond with family and friends tell stories about your past and all the crazy things you did growing up and make new memories with the ones you love and care about  camping is a all in all wonderful experience and a lovely get away from any hassle and stress you may have in your day to day life it provides a nice vacation that some of you may really need its calming and is highly recommended for those who suffer from stress.