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Camp Delta

November 26, 2019
By Anonymous

My family and a couple other distantly related family’s share a cabin, we call this place camp delta, it’s one of my favorite places in the entire world. It’s located on Heart Lake in Iron River, its not the nicest looking camp or really the cleanest but I think its perfect. 
It’s a tall rectangular solid concrete building, all white and dirty looking on the outside. On the inside there is two bedrooms with two sets of bunk beds in each room separated by curtains. The living room is two rows of reclining chairs, five in the frot, seven in the back. Next to that is a poker table surrounded by benches where we play card games. There are two sets of bunk beds in the living room with curtains in front, the kitchen is small, there’s an oven, microwave, and a sink with a long island table.
My family goes out there about three times a summer, about once every month, with my grandparents and cousins. Delta is on a lake, so we have a pontoon that we use when we go fishing. Every time we all go, we have a huge fish fry, we catch as many fish as possible, fry up a bunch of potatoes and carrots and invite over the neighbors because we always end up making way too much food.
Every morning I wake up to fresh toast, sausage links and, bacon. Its an unspoken tradition we have been doing since I can remember, the breakfast is never switched up it is always the same French toast, sausage links and, bacon. After breakfast we usually go on a pontoon ride which lasts the whole day, we fish, and we swim all day long. The breeze from the other boats passing by always feels amazing on our sun burnt cheeks, and the cool water gives sweet relief on the rest of our burns.
We go up the same weekend in July every year for the Pine Point Lodge cookout, Pine Point is a bar that we eat at every time we come up to camp, they give out tons of free barbeque, potatoes, salads, fruit, etc.… Its probably one on my favorite parts about going up to camp. There’s always a bunch of people there, for the after party the adults stay up at the bar and my cousins and I go down to the dock and go swimming at sunset. After a couple hours of the after party, we take the pontoon back to the cabin.
Once were back we all sit in the living room and watch ridiculousness for what it seems like hours, I don’t realize how important my family is to me until we all go to camp together, spending time with family is so important and taken for granted much too often. Who knows when one might no longer be there, life is too short.


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This short story is about my familys cabin in Iron River. 


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