Lunch time and everyone is back on shore for lunch. Notice the kids perched on the lifeguard stand, which is now gone. Learning how to scale this platform was a right of passage for many CRYC youth when they were very small. I must admit, I was sad to see it go. Although a cautious mother, Conquest Beach and this lifeguard stand represented to me the kind of freedom I had when I was a young child - to explore, to take chances, to become more competent, beyond the gaze of our parent's eyes.

Lunch time and everyone is back on shore for lunch. Notice the kids perched on the lifeguard stand, which is now gone. Learning how to scale this platform was a right of passage for many CRYC youth when they were very small. I must admit, I was sad to see it go. Although a cautious mother, Conquest Beach and this lifeguard stand represented to me the kind of freedom I had when I was a young child - to explore, to take chances, to become more competent, beyond the gaze of our parent's eyes.