Easter camping

Camping the week before Easter (some start the Monday or Tuesday before Easter) for about a week & sometimes longer at their "yearly campsite" is a BIG DEAL with local Cruzan's, Puerto Ricans, & other down island people. No statesiders do this & me being a statesider, the last thing I want to do is move out of the luxury of my house & live in tent for a week to 10 days.

So it is a tradition, rite of passage or whatever you want to call it. It's part of their culture and has been going on for decades.They most generally like to camp out on a beach somewhere or very close to one. I never see campsites in numbers except around Easter although some families also do it around Thanksgiving or Christmas. I may be wrong, but anyone can camp anytime most anywhere no matter time of year..

They bring all the necessities like generators, small cooking apparatus, etc. In other words they literally have eveything they need to live in a tent. What do they do? I can only say the campsite that I'm very familar with, the adults sit around and talk/socialize with all their cousins and extended family. This year this same campsite (which is in a field about 100 yds from the beach), has recreational activities for the kids.

Jumbie

My former landlord is a native Crucian and has told us a lot about camping out near Davis Bay as a child. This is like a traditional "homecoming" in the states (at least in KY). People come from all over to family reunions. He says he can remember his grandmother staying at the campsite during the day, but leaving to go home to her own bed at night.