Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, this has to be one of the most popular of summer camps. Founded by Mrs. Judith Moore, the camp is held on the four-acre Agars Island in the Great Sound, off Fairylands.

The camp runs through July and August and is designed for boys and girls aged five through 11 years of age.

Each of the one-month courses accommodates 65 to 70 children and although Camp Juniper's day stretches over seven hours, some younger children stay for just two or three days a week and graduate to the full week when they are older.

Really keen children can, and do, enrol for the full two months. Sandra Harries has been counsellor, manager, administrator and secretary in recent years and says that the secret to the camp is the structured but somewhat informal manner in which it is run.

As might be imagined, as an island camp, Camp Juniper has the water as its prime theme. Swimming is taught at various levels of skill with qualified instructors for Red Cross Water and Swimming Safety programmes. Badges are awarded as progress is made, with the emphasis on steady progress towards competent swimming.

Rowing is another favourite sport and is ideal for the children who wish to make boats a major part of their lives. By starting with the basics of a rowing boat and oar, and with short, supervised journeys out of sheltered bays on Agars Island, the novice can soon build both competence and skill.

The adventurous and proficient can row around the island; but no one gets into a boat until they are a skillful swimmer.

Arts and crafts with painting, drawing, colouring, papier mache cut-outs provide the quieter aspect of a full summer course.

Exploring the island is fun because the British Army -- occupants of Agars Island until the early 1900s -- left some fascinating debris such as clay pipes and the occasional regimental badge, regarded as major finds for a nine-year-old.

Close supervision is the motto of the eight or nine adult counsellors and the five or six teenage junior leaders.

HORSE RIDING The Lee Bow Riding Centre in Devonshire provides one of a number of horse riding summer camps.

The Centre runs horse riding camps for 10 children at a time, ranging in age from six to 14 years. The course is a full one, including instruction on how to clean and feed a horse, saddling, grooming, stable management, bandaging, and preparing the horse or pony for shows.

"By the end of it, the child should have a pretty thorough knowledge of horses,'' says Mrs. Pandy Williams, who runs the Centre.

Of the 14 horses at Lee Bow, seven are ponies. And the trail rides out across the open area of Devonshire and along the Railway Track.

After riding on a hot afternoon, and a full morning of activities, the kids can cool off in the swimming pool right there on the property.

AQUARIUM AND ZOO Few organisations take the summer activities for children as seriously as the Bermuda Aquarium and Zoo. Three different summer camps are carefully planned for three different age groups.

Aqua-tots This is a four-week course for two hours a week. The course is designed for no more than 12 children in one group.

It has been so much in demand that organisers have had to put on two extra camps in order to accommodate all of the tots.

Aqua fun This is a more structured camp, for five to eight-year-olds. It runs for one week for each age in July and August. Practical Bermuda natural history is the keynote and the response this year has been stronger than ever.

Aqua zoo camp For those nine years and upwards -- with more advanced study of the Island's environment and Aquarium and Zoo itself.

Any group can do snorkelling and take a trip in a boat once a week but they must be competent swimmers.

One of the most important steps has been the provision of free places to each of the Island's primary schools. This has attracted children who would not normally have been able to participate in these camps.

"These camps have a much deeper purpose and effect,'' says coordinator Mary Strong. "The children develop a real concern for the environment and become so much more aware of their responsibility to the Island.'' CORAL BEACH CLUB Of all the private clubs in Bermuda, Coral Beach seems to make the most concerted effort to ensure that the children of members have a full, active summer.

And the children of guests staying at the club (or those staying at Horizons, Waterloo House, or Newstead) are also entitled to apply to join the summer activities.

Mrs. Claudia Wardman says that the centre of activities at Coral Beach is the summer tennis, organised and run by club pro Derek Singleton.

From the age of five the kids can learn tennis fundamentals and continue through until they are 14 years old. Round robin tournaments are mixed with lessons.

Play school at Coral Beach runs from the end of June to Labour Day from 9:00am to noon. Children aged two to eight years are given beach activities, walks and games.

ALL IN A DAYS WORK -- Risking life amd limb to recover a plastic toy swallowed by a 12ft alligator isn't an every day occurrence at the Bermuda Aquarium and Zoo. But the Flatts facility does provide plenty for the kids to see and do during the hot summer holidays.