Surf Camp for Kids in St. Augustine

The stoke level is always up at Mangrove Surf Camp and it's infectious! Our girls are repeat surf campers and love their week every time. Best surf amp and instructors around.

Great instructors and leadership. Its amazing that they get all of those kids surfing! A skill to last a lifetime!

The boys had a blast!

This was our second year and we love this surf camp. The instructors enjoy their job and enjoy working with the kids. Everyone was so nice, happy and laid back. It’s nice to sit and relax for a few hours on the beach and watch your kid catch wave after wave with big smiles. We will definitely be signing up next year. Thank you!

This was our second summer doing surf camp with St. Augustine Surf School. Both of our kids have had so much fun and learned so much, their confidence has grown along with their love of the ocean. The owners make sure everyone is safe and has the instruction and attention needed to grow and thrive. We love it and will be back next year!

It was positive vibes from the time we hit the sand on Monday. The waves were a good size for the kids to learn on, equipment perfect, and the instructors fun, friendly, and safe. We would have stayed all summer if we could have!

I totally get that the younger kids in this age group can be fearful and is a known problem by the camp organizers. And I completely respect and am thankful they don’t force kids to surf who are scared. What I would love to see are some sort of activities for those fearful kids other than just sitting in a tide pool all day feeling down on themselves. This session had 5 kids who hung in the tidepool the whole time. Some positive vibes of it’s ok to be afraid, let’s hunt for sharks teeth or let’s build a giant sandcastle, or let’s jump the waves. All ideas that could have been done by the staff that just sat with the kids doing nothing. They didn’t feel like they were part of camp because they were scared. It would keep the kids engaged and wanting to return next year because they loved their experience and parents feeling like they still got their money’s worth. I know they are focused on being a surf school, but camp is camp and should be a bigger experience especially with this age group.