🏝 What: A joyful weekend of queer nature liberation 🐬
🗓 Date: Thursday September 17th @ 9am - Sunday September 20th @ 4pm, 2025
🔻Who: Queer nature and ocean lovers, ocean aligned and ocean curious. Non-binary/trans centered. All Queer people welcome! No previous ocean experience needed. 60 participants total.
📍LOCATION: Two Harbors Campground, West End of Catalina Island, Los Angeles County. This trip is not to Avalon, the main town on Catalina. Instead it is on the more secluded, rustic part of the island. This is a location change from the past two years and is a public campground.
💲Cost: Sliding scale $469-$1069. This cost includes the boat, gear haul to the campground, 3 meals, campground accommodations, and . Access to shared snorkel and kayak gear and instruction, available for additional cost. as well as other programming. Payment plans available.
💸Scholarships- We currently do not have any funding for scholarships for this camp. We are still actively seeking funding.
⏳Registration: Registration opens July 11th. Tickets are first come first serve and will most likely sell out fast. Mark your calendars!
🛥Transportation: Catalina Express boat departing from San Pedro Terminal to Two Harbors. From the boat terminal it is a 0.3 mile walk on a dirt road and path to the campground. There is some elevation gain getting to the campground, and a fairly steep walk down to the campsites. Gear is driven in a truck to the campground, but participants must walk to the campground.
🐠Activities: A limited number of snorkel and kayak tours are available for additional cost. (More info coming in summer.) Everyone is welcome to bring your own snorkeling gear, or rent snorkel gear or a kayak at the Two Harbors Dive Shop on the island, and snorkel and kayak anytime. Lifeguards will be on duty 9-12 and 1-5 in the cove. Facilitated swim lessons, nature walks, workshops, yoga, dance party, and a variety show will be available to everyone. This is not a surf trip and instead an ocean recreation sea camp. Shared activity equipment provided during structured times. If possible we highly encourage you to bring your own gear.
🥑 Food: We will provide dinners on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Participants are responsible for their own breakfast and lunch. There is a cafe, restaurant and small store in Two Harbors, a 10 minute walk from the campground. Coolers and camp cooking equipment are allowed on the charter boat. Gas for stoves are not allowed on the boat and must be bought at the camp store.
🏕ACCOMODATIONS: Camping on the beach or bluff overlooking the ocean. Participants must bring their own tent, sleeping pad and sleeping bag. If you do not have all of your own gear, we will have a gear share sheet to help you try to crowd source everything you need.
🚿Facilities- Chemical toilets, running water and cold showers. There are pay hot showers in town, a 10 minute walk away.
✖️Cancelation Policy: Cancel before August 11th for a full refund, minus $40 processing. After August 11th, a refund (minus $40) only given if your spot is filled.
🪸Other: Sorry, no pets or people under 18 allowed.
🦠Covid-19 Policy and Protocol: All participants must show proof of a negative covid test within 24 hours of boat departure. Screening will be done at the boat terminal. Any participant who tests positive for COVID-19, or has symptoms consistent with COVID-19 infection cannot attend camp. Mask are strongly recommended when inside the boat (there is limited outdoor space available on the boat). We support masking outdoors also, and any precautions that help you feel safe. Rapid tests will be available to participants throughout the weekend.
FAQ: Can I come, even if I don’t know how to swim? Answer: Yes! You do not need to know how to swim to attend camp. Swim lessons will be provided, and lifeguards will be on duty. However, you must know your limits! If you choose to swim outside the hours lifeguards are on duty, or if you leave the cove and swim elsewhere, you are swimming at your own risk and we are not responsible for you.
FAQ: If I can’t make the boat, can I come later that day or the next day? Answer: We highly recommend doing whatever you can to make the boat with everyone. If you simply aren’t able to, and you still REALLY want to come, you are welcome to book your own boat ride, and gear haul, and meet us at the campsite. We have no capacity to help you coordinate your own trip over. We cannot provide any discounts to your registration and will have to buy any additional boat ride and gear haul. Info on public boat ferry here. Additionally you will miss the orientation, introductions and icebreakers, and first activities. We will not have capacity to catch you up and provide you with an orientation or introductions. Folks who join late generally find it hard to mix with the group once they arrive. Similarly, if you have to leave early, you will have to coordinate that on your own. Please let us know in your registration if you plan to come late or leave early.
FAQ: I was able to register, but tickets sold out before my friends could. Answer: Sorry! Have your friends join the waitlist. We cannot guarantee that they will get a spot, but we often get very last minute cancellations. See the cancellation policy above if you’d like to cancel your registration.
