🔻 Carlsbad Queer Surf Camp 🏕

🗓 Date: Thursday November 7th @ 4pm - Sunday November 10th @ 12 noon, 2024

🐬 Who: Trans/non-binary/queer independent surfers from beginner to pro. 20-40 participants. 

📍Location: South Carlsbad State Beach Campground, Pelican Group Camp, North County San Diego.

🏕 Accomodations: Camping on the bluff at the beach! Bring your own tent, pad and bedding. Flushing public bathrooms. Hot Showers for tokens. The campsite has an electrical and water hookup. Participants will need to drop off their camping gear for the weekend and park their vehicle off-site.  Carpooling highly rencouraged!

🌊 Surfing: This spot is on the bluffs directly above a playful beach break with seasonal reef, offering fun for beginner, intermediate and advanced surfers alike. Watch the waves from our camp spot! Beaches offer longboard, short board, bodysurfing, boogie boarding and splashing around options. Surfers must have their own gear and be independent in the water. Formal and informal surf instruction provided throughout the weekend. 

🥑 Food: We will provide healthy plant-based vegetarian meals starting with dinner on Thursday; Breakfast, lunch and dinner on Friday and Saturday; And breakfast and lunch on Sunday. 

💲 Cost: Sliding scale $400-$1500. Guide here. The window for scholarship applications for QTBIPOC with financial barriers has ended.

🤝 How to sign up: Fill out the registration form below. Sign ups closed once full, or by October 24th.

📋 Tentative Schedule:  This is a loose idea of the flow of the weekend to give you a sense.  Final schedule will be determined by the weather, waves, and participant needs and wants. 

Thursday: 4pm Arrival, set-up, sunset surf

                5pm Dinner

                7pm Introductions, orientation, surf slide show

Friday:   7:30am Breakfast

              9 Surf talk and shred sesh

             12 noon Lunch

              1pm Second surf, or tidepool, or board shop field trip

              6pm Dinner

              8pm Surf footage review, fire

 Sat:       7:30am Breakfast

              9am Surf talk and surf session (possibly at a nearby reef break)

              12 noon Lunch

               1pm Surf, hike, yoga, nap, ding repair, birding, choose your own adventure

               6pm Dinner 

              8pm Video analysis, film night

  Sun:     7:30am Breakfast/pack lunch

             10am Party Waves/ Beach hang

             11am Pack up and say sad goodbyes 

             12 noon Check-out. Or park just outside the campground and surf again!

🥣 What to Bring: • Tent • Sleeping bag and pad • Warm Layers • Surfboard • Wetsuit • Towel • Flashlight • Plate • Bowl • Utensils • Cup • Snacks • Drinks • Water Bottle • Hat • Sunglasses • Sunscreen

Optional:

• Camp chair • Picnic sheet or blanket • Yoga mat  • Umbrella • Meat if you need meat • Snacks if you love snackin’ • An instrument • Ear plugs • Cooler with ice for cold drinks and snacks

⚠️ Cancelation Policy: Cancel before October 7th for a full refund. After October 7th partial refund of all but 5% only available if your spot is filled. 

⛰ Indigenous Land: We acknowledge the lands we will be staying and recreating on have been stewarded by the Kumeyaay peoples for millennia. This land was taken from them without their consent in the process of colonization, which is ongoing and has real effects on those still alive today. We pay respects to the Kumeyaay elders, past present and future, and we honor them as the contemporary custodians of this land.  This land acknowledgment is only one step toward decolonizing, and we must continue to learn and support in other ways as well. We will share more resources during the weekend and you can begin learning more here.