YMCA Camp Adair

May 4th, 2023

Amazing my kids loved it
Apr 14th, 2023

What a great place for a school camp. It has heaps of accommodations. Heaps of activities like confidence courses etc. Beautiful kahikatea forest. Water slide and swing bridge.
Mar 13th, 2023

Sad to say that the Camp has suffer from the storm, but they will clean up & continue
Feb 25th, 2023

I'm not sure if my experience is relevant to what camp Adair is like today but I wanted to share a bit about my experience when I was a kid. I visited the camp in 2010 with my school. I don't remember much of the activities but there seemed to be lots to do. Unfortunately the one thing that stuck out was when me and the other girls in my cabin found a maggot, which made us notice another and another until we saw they were everywhere. It got to the point where it looked like someone had walked around every inch of the ground in muddy boots. The whole ground was covered. I remember sitting outside in the rain crying watching my teacher mop up the infestation. Looking back I always wonder why it was left to my teacher to do this. His efforts were pointless as it didn't take long for the maggots to reappear and we were dispersed into other cabins. Not long after we were told what had caused the infestation. Bait had been laid in the roof and a possum had gotten up there and died. The possum was just above my bunk and the maggots would fall down onto my friends bed, then drop down to mine and then onto the floor. I hate to imagine how riddled that possum would have had to have been for that many maggots to appear. I was really affected by this situation, it would be years before I could see a maggot without hyperventilating and I never went on a school camp again. To be fair this was 13 years ago and I hope the camp has put measures in place to ensure this never happens again.
Feb 24th, 2023