The world is your camp if you own Big Bear Point.

By Colin W. Sargent

Awhite seaplane lifts from Long Lake in Naples. Passing Rick’s Café and the Songo River Queen, we follow Route 302 up the western shore of the lake until we discover

the ghost of an old children’s camp on 300 feet of shore frontage at 34 Big Bear Point. Consulting the 1957 color postcard we’ve brought along, we know we’ve reached the former location of Camp Boyland, once run by the Christian Brothers of Instruction, who still operate in Alfred.

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