#CBWC: Early morning at the Camp Magruder Boat House

This week’s entry for Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge (CBWC) includes photos depicting in or on water.

As the pandemic wears on, I find myself looking back at old photos and reliving old memories of times when we could travel and gather. Better days are coming, but in the meantime, I find joy in remembering some of my favorite places.

Every fall we would take our son to our church’s annual family camp at Camp Magruder. Magruder sits on a strip of sand, with a lake (shown in the pic) on the east side and the Pacific Ocean on the west. For 2 days, our son could play with other kids and have some of the freedom that kids rarely have anymore: to roam around with minimal adult supervision, climb trees, run through the forest, and just be a kid. Magruder was and is one of his happy places. Mine, too.