What else are we gonna do besides row?

Having worked as a teacher, at regular summer camps, and at other residential rowing dev. camps, I have a pretty good idea of what makes a good summer (other than medals, which always make for a good time). As stuff gets nailed down I'll add it here but here a few of the things that are in the works:

Organized trips. The camp will have a van all summer just for its use, making possible everything from runs to Wal-Mart to day trips, etc. Some will be scheduled including the ones listed below; some will undoubtedly be impromptu. The point is, it'll be easy to do. Some of the things that will definitely happen:
Red Sox. I'm a fan. Sorry if you're not.
Beach. Half an hour away - bunch of em.
Maine. Hands down the best place in America in the summer.
Boston. Historic crap, plus good food (not just clam chowder), plus the Red Sox.
Freeport. Okay, so it's in Maine but it's worth a trip on its own.
Cape Cod. Like the beach, only on a cape.

College coaches. This is a basic for most similar summer camps - being in New England means there a bunch of them fairly close by. We'll try to get who you're interested in.

Other speakers. Nobody wants to learn too much over the summer, but nutritionists, elite athletes from both rowing and other sports, sports psychologists and physiologists - all can be really interesting as well as informative. When we get stuff lined up, we'll let you know.

We'll be traveling to the Philadelphia area for Club Nationals, and since I'm more-or-less from there we'll spend some time hanging out, go see Boathouse Row, maybe the Jersey Shore. At Canadian Henley we won't have a lot of downtime, but Niagara falls, which is really a lot of water, is nearby.

The basic idea is to have a good summer even if you weren't rowing, and to give a break from the training every now and then. Just to clarify - it's definitely NOT going to feel like a summer camp that happens to have rowing. It's a straight-up development camp - 12 practices a week, and all the rest that that implies. It'll just have some other fun stuff that's worked in.