Adventure Camp

Adventure Camp
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	30 minutes (with commercials)
Original release
Network	Discovery Kids
Release	May 17, 2003 (2003-05-17) – June 14, 2008 (2008-06-14)

Adventure Camp is an American television series that aired on Discovery Kids. The show took place at SeaWorld Orlando and Busch Gardens Tampa. It was based upon the real life camps of SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Adventure Camps. The show was not staged, and the campers did take part in real life Adventure camp activities such as diving in the SeaWorld shark tank and cleaning up after animals on the veldt at Busch Gardens Tampa.

After the series ended, reruns continued to air on The Hub until March 25, 2012.

Plot

The summary is four kids from the United States and four kids from the United Kingdom go to Florida. They have many adventures such as feeding orcas at Seaworld and cleaning up after animals at Busch Gardens. Adventure Camp aired in March 2008. It was being shown on Discovery Kids. Many of the adventures are exciting, thrilling, and sometimes gross, but at the end someone who showed a quality such as teamwork would receive a necklace and the honor to get to go on an extra special adventure the following day.

Each camper received a necklace and were told that if they earned 20 beads on the necklace by the end of the trip, then they would get a close encounter with an animal of some kind, which turned out to be swimming with dolphins. Domonique was the only one not to earn enough beads, but Melissa felt that Domonique deserved them more and then gave two of her beads to Domonique. The counselors then gave Melissa a chance to earn the extra 2 needed by participating in a manatee release.

Season 1 Animal Care

Each of the eight campers is given an animal to take care of throughout the duration of Adventure Camp. It is unknown who took care of Brandon's animal after he left the camp in episode 7.

Camper	Hometown	Animal
Bill	McLean, Virginia	Toad/Aquarium
Brandon	South Lake Tahoe, California	Turtle
Chad	Silver Spring, Maryland	Reef Aquarium
David	Huntsville, Texas	Yellow Rat Snake
Domonique	Sylmar, California	Alligator
Kimmy	Tucson, Arizona	Anoles
Melissa	Marietta, Georgia	Hermit Crabs
Sadie	Canyon Lake, California	Sharks

Season 1 episodes

#	Episode Title
1	Arrival
2	Manatee Rescue
3	Crystal River
4	Zookeeper for a Day
5	Escape for a Day
6	Trainer for a Day
7	Adventure Venture
8	Trek to the Everglades
9	Swamp Safari
10	Everlasting Everglades
11	Scramble for the Beads
12	Judgment Day
13	Dolphin Swim

Season 2

See Adventure Florida

A second season aired on Discovery Kids, in 2008 and featured 4 kids from the United States and 4 kids from the United Kingdom. The counselors were Bill Street and Kelly Deidring. In every episode a word relating to a quality they should have, such as respect or tolerance, was said to the campers and the counselors would give a necklace to the camper who they feel represented that word the best on that day. Then the camper could choose another camper to go with them on a special experience. In the end, Warren won the final challenge and got to keep the necklace for good.

Season 2 Animal Care

Each of the eight campers pick a piece of paper with the names of two animals on it, The two campers who each pick the same animals must take care of those two animals together during the duration of Adventure Camp. Each of the eight campers also are given an animal to do a presentation on the final day of camp.

Camper	Age	Hometown	Animal care	Presentation
Adriana	12	Branch, Louisiana	Sloth & Macaw	Macaw
Alex	13	Southampton, England	Cuscus & Possum	Cuscus
Ally	15	Ipswich, England	Cuscus & Possum	Possum
Brian	13	McLean, Virginia	Lemurs & Reptiles	Lemurs
Chris	14	Santa Maria, California	Flamingos & Skunk	Flamingos
Claire	12	Watford, England	Flamingos & Skunk	Skunk
Cori	13	Chicago, Illinois	Sloth & Macaw	Sloth
Warren	14	Birmingham, England	Lemurs & Reptiles	Reptiles

Season 2 episodes

#	Episode Title
14	Welcome to Florida
15	Animals 101
16	Gators on the River
17	See the Sea of Life
18	Meet the Manatees
19	The GeoCache Challenge
20	Big Cat Call
21	Pole to Pole
22	Date with Dolphins
23	The Reptile Encounter
24	Swimming with Sharks
25	Animals of the Everglades
26	Key to the Keys, Part 1
27	Key to the Keys, Part 2
28	Going Home