In response to the ever-increasing demand for summer camp places and our endeavors to accommodate everyone who wants to attend camp, Camp Quality was able to secured the whole site at the Jockey Club Sai Kung Outdoor Training Camp, which could house a total of 236 residential campers.

This year, camp was held on 18th –20th August with just under 200 campers, companions, and volunteers attending our biggest ever camp to date. This wasn’t the first time, we visited this site, Camp Quality held an Easter Camp back in 2002 at this particular campsite. The camp itself has still kept relatively new and it’s a favourite with us because it’s built on a very scenic setting and has beautiful views of the water. It also provided us with the basic essential facilities to run a successful camp, a great outdoor pool; huge indoor sports centre, a theatre and various activity rooms, which you could hire.

Our set-up team arrived early Friday to start creating a more “Camp Quality” feel to the place, and a great job they did – you just couldn’t miss out on our Camp Quality balloons which was everywhere at site! It wasn’t long before our group of campers and companions arrived at camp on the Friday afternoon. After a short briefing and organizing everyone into their respective camp dormitories, it was already suppertime, which was served sharply at 6.00pm

Following supper, everyone moved to the Theatre for our special guest of the evening. Surprise guest, Harry Wong – everyone’s favourite magician and someone who has an amazing way with kids and adults alike. Harry offered some of our budding magicians an opportunity to learn about the simple mysterious of magic by staging a Magic Workshop. He taught everyone some simple but very amusing tricks and everyone was completely mesmerized by his magic and humour. It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening and a great way to end the first night at camp.

Next morning saw everyone rising early at 6.00am. After breakfast, everyone was bused to the Pak Tam Chung coach park for our highlight of the camp – the hot air balloon rides. For our first-timers, you could see their faces light up in excitement and hear them say “Wow”! as they rose into the sky.

After lunch, came our Outdoor Games program. With collaboration of the campsite instructors, we had tailor-made some special adventure based training programs for our campers. Campers were encouraged to take on different challenges to test their abilities and develop a spirit of teamwork through activities such as abseiling, Rope-net course and the Water Cannon Battles!! For some of the less adventurous ones, escaping to the pool was the best option to escape the scorching sun!

Supper for the second evening was a BBQ. Following the BBQ, everyone descending to the indoor sports hall for the Obstacle Course Competition. Special mention must be given to our ex-campers (Camp Quality has a Games Committee which consists of 10 ex-campers between the ages of 19-21 years old) for organizing the extremely fun competition, which got everyone competing excitedly to win for their particular group.

Sunday Morning started leisurely with more outdoor activities such as a round of wit-testing Treasure Hunt and a firm favourite amongst all campers – Bamboo Rafting.
You could see how eager some of our campers were to put their innovative ideas together so that they could be on the water as fast as they can! The less active ones also had various Arts & Crafts workshops to keep them selves busy throughout Saturday and Sunday. One session saw them making some beautifully hand-made soap.

All good things come to an end, and before we knew it, after lunch, it was time to say good-bye to yet another fun and memorable summer camp.