Ah, I can't find my way through the trees.
I don't know my way back home, the life broke at the end of the tunnel.
I don't know I'm out on my own, I can't find my way back home.
Plantation camp itself started back in 1952.
I think when you come to plantation, you join that heritage and we try and keep a lot of those old traditions.
What's really special about plantation is that we can be away from the city and all the cars.
Every time I think about it, I feel so warm and happy.
Kids get to take care of the farm animals, they get to take care of the kittens and puppies that are here.
We've got piglets and we've got horses, all kinds of really awesome activities and that's just the chore period.
At home, I don't really like the chores but here I like them.
I think one of the biggest things that makes plantation a unique place is the location.
It's so close to the ocean, yet you're in the redwoods.
It's just so peaceful and it's so beautiful and you can hear silence here and I think that's a very special thing and it's a very rare thing.
On foggy mornings, as the fog starts to lift and the sun rises over the trees,
you can see the rays of sun coming through the trees into the meadow and it's so beautiful and so majestic
and all the horses and cows are grazing around, it's like picture perfect.
It's great to see things grow and then we water them every day, we sort of care for the plants and then it's really cool to see them grow
and then we get to eat the fruit, it's great.
Everything here is pretty much homemade and I love the fact that when you're eating meat and you're eating ribs and you're eating pork,
you realize, wow, I worked for this meat, I worked for this food.
Last year I was 65 pounds, when I got back from camp I was 67.
The food, amazing.
We met each other at our first campfire, we became best friends.
We're like best bros now, we're so brothers.
We just call each other brothers because we're such good friends.
I think that's one of the magical things about plantation is it's such a mix of people from all walks of life.
We definitely say that everybody here is a big family.
I think the counselors are really nice because they act like your mom and dad, they love you and we know each other so well.
There's so many counselors that come from the other side of the world and you want to know what's that like.
Everybody has a sort of respect for each other and the farm and it really makes it a lot more fun.
I feel like this is the place I belong more than anything in the whole entire country.
At school you kind of have to be careful sometimes, but here you're free, you know?
You're just yourself and it's kind of nice.
Going out to the lake and riding paddle boards and kayaks and canoes, you could go on a hike, you could do horseback riding.
Safety is definitely number one concern, especially being out here in the woods.
Every hazard is managed, everyone's looked after.
I think what really makes this place special is the fact that they take all the technology out.
You have to have these games and computers.
You have to see this outside world and like real life and how nice it is.
You can actually touch and feel things.
My friends are like, you can change over the summer and is that a good change?
Definitely.
It's one of the greatest times I've had in my life.
It's awesome. That's really all.
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