Weirdest thing found in your pools filters(skimmers)

[speedx5xracer]

I work at the lake at my camp but Im at the pool once or twice a week. But we are in the middle of the woods so Ive seen some weird ones Ill start w. the live and then dead... Ill forgo the normal insects when i get to them and only state the weird ones
Live:
Mice, Frogs, Snakes, Turtles, Newts, Chipmunks, and a bird (it was cute to see it fluttering like mad he was just outside the skimmer)
Dead: all of the above except the bird, Monarch Butterfly, and some how i dont know how it got there but a Bass from my lake (the pool is 400 meters from the lake)
Trash:
Beer cans (forbidden on camp), used condoms, and the greatest find of all.... didnt know how to explain this to my campers who saw us take it out of the skimmer but a sex toy

[triplethreat]

Ewww... what are these people doing in your pool? Gross!

[c3divers]

OOOOHHHHH MMMMYYYYYY

We better not find condoms in our pool considering it is an all girl camp.

That is hilarious!!! :eek: :bowrofl:

[speedx5xracer]

Has any one found anything else that is weird in theirs?

[Angel_Jenny]

We only have the lake and no pool but after the floods last year we had millions of fish skeletons and dead fish, glass, beer cans and other trash being brushed to shore! It took ages to get rid of fish because first day they we big and easy to get then as the days went by and we had smaller fish they were in clusters...ewww

[coach1974]

We woke up one morning at my camp, to find the llama from the petting zoo in the pool. He got out of his pin and wander into the pool some how.

[CAMPFRIEND]

We find snakes and frogs. Somtimes alive sonetimes dead. Being in Texas we have to be careful as snakes can give a bad bite:(

[runrachrunn]

A llama in the pool~! that's classic. We had llamas this summer, but they stayed put. One of them gave birth on the last day of camp... campers missed it but the staff enjoyed it.

[KiwiCRB]

We find pretty standard stuff I think. We've found beetles that are close to 6 inches long, tons of frogs and snakes, the occasional mouse.

Not really pool related but we had a paper tree put up in the corner of our dining hall for a while and when we took it down there was a dead rattlesnake behind it... that was pretty creepy!

[Life_Saver]

One time I found a baby turtle, it was about the size of a half dollar

[speedx5xracer]

was it still alive?

[Melk]

We dont have a pool but we had about 10 baby mice in one of our kayaks this past summer... the only way we could get them out was to skink the kayak... now I know that mice can swim!

[speedx5xracer]

why didnt you just capsize the canoe on the shore and put them in a box or something

[clarabelle1985]

yeh we also found out that mice can swim better than campers in fact we were doing a 10 man canoe race when half way out the campers discovered a mouse n the canoe and startined jumping ou they all had lifejakets on and swam back to shore and then there was this mosue just swimming along i rescured it and took it back to shore - hehe the onyl real rescuse i did as a lifegaurd was to a mouse

[Melk]

We only thought there was one to begin with and they were all at the tip of the kayat.

[Smudge]

Baby turtles - lots of them.

This particular camp was on rehobath bay in deleware and turtles used to comp up near the poor to lay their eggs, then cos the babies headed for the nearest water they would head for the pool.

I only worked at the pool when I was volunteering there for a few weeks after the main camp had finished. Every day we would have to rescue loads of baby turtles. Sometimes we would even have to dive to bottom of the deep end to retrieve dead ones.

[CampFreak]

I am a cabin counselor but I find myself guard from time to time and having to check filters. In just one sweep of 8 filters, I found live and dead snakes, voles, mice, salamanders, frogs and other small creatures found in the woods.

[Melk]

My brother was teaching a kayaking class this summer and found a "code brown", if you know what I mean, floating in the lake. They had to take a haz mat bag out to the middle of the lake to get it. YUCK!

[Smudge]

Some one did that in the pool at the camp I worked at in deleware - they had to close the pool for cleaning - then at the begining of the following week (once it was clean) they would only let the older age group have freeswim - cos it was one of the younger kids who had done it (and none of them were getting free swim until the culprit came forward) I fought the bit out that my day camp kids shouldn't lose out when they were there the previous week so had no way of knowing who had done it!

[these.city.lights]

My campers cant help if they did a code brown so when we did have one we evactuated and went to a different activity. It didnt matter who it was cos it could have been any of them.

If I had done it I would have been even more reluctant to come forward.

[Smudge]

I guess at a special needs camp it is a bit different - and I dont blame the person for not coming forward - I just didn't see why my day campers should suffer when they werent even on camp when it happened so couldn't possibly have been one of them.

[these.city.lights]

yeah that sucks a lot. I dont think its fair either. Its not like its bad behaviour or anything! It really didnt matter who it was. What was the camp director gonna do with someone if they came forward?!

[Smudge]

To be honest I really dont know! Call the parents? For all that good that would do - whats done is done!