Patrol Leader of Kestrels
Friday 24th August.
We arrived…. LATE and it was already raining. Mud everywhere. Torches out, Ewan guided the mini bus up to the campsite. Straight away tents were being put up and the marquee was put up. We played around a bit, as we look forward to the week ahead.
Saturday 25th August.
In the morning we did the finishing bits to our tents, built a flag pole for the flag so we could have our first morning parade and then had breakfast, after that we planned a route for the Long Hike ahead of us. Druing the hike everyone got to a different stage. Some stopped early and returned after a few hours, but others kept going. It was really late when everyone had gotten back. We had dinner, and sat around the camp fire for a while telling jokes and stories.
Sunday 26th August.
Breakfast, Parade, we were put into 3 groups instead of our patrols and off we went to our decided first activity. My first activity was pioneering where we made a bridge, after we did climbing on the climbing wall, Mowgli showed me how to belay and let me help with the rope work for other scouts who were climbing. Finally we also did rifle shooting, which was fun, and was indoors so got us out of the rain for a little while!
Monday 27th August.
Today is the day that we made rafts. We walked to the lake and there was our equipment so off we went and build 3 rafts (3 groups). 3 rafts were built and in the end 3 rafts failed but it was very fun. After all the rafts were dismantled. During the rafting Mowgli brought up the 10 man Life Raft from a boat, and went through some survival at sea exercises with us, we had to do a little course of what we did if we were abandoning a ship and we had to all get into the life raft after doing different positions in the water. We wanted to sleep onboard the raft that night, but couldn't as we found there was some holes in it, once we get them fixed Mowgli says we can spend the night in it on the water!
After we were all showered and clean we walked back up to the campsite where we began to get ready our equipment for cooking in our patrols, we had to do it reastraunt style and serve some customers!!! We cooked Chinese.
Tuesday 28th August.
Today we are woken early because we are going to aqua sports centre, where we do sailing and kayaking. Our fist activity was kayaking, we paddled around and played some games. We made chariots where you have to people and two kayaks and you put them together. Before the end of the Kayaking we did an ALL-IN capsized drill, where everyone has to capsized and help rescue each other, and get everyone back into their kayaks in a fast time. This was our first time at doing an all in, and we did very well, and were all back in a kayak within 10 mins. Afterwards we had lunch and it was quite cold. Then we did sailing, first we sailed up and down the lake and then we did capsized drills in the sailing boats too, and when through what we should do if it did happen. (luckily we had wetsuits on but the water was warm as well) we went back to the campsite after, and sat around the fire for a while singing songs.
Wednesday 29th August.
Mountain biking…It was an epic day of racing around different tracks, people falling off, and going over the handle bars (me) but overall it was a fun day what ever happened, and it was so muddy too! At some point the bikes sank and were stuck in the mud. We had to cycle across this bridge with no sides and if you fell off, splash in the river you would go! Luckly no one fell off!
Later that day… it was Patrol Cooking, make your own 3 course meal with a budget of £10.
I’m not sure about other groups but my group made, tomato soup followed by Chinese chicken stir fry and for pudding a nice sponge cake. And guess who won!!! Ravens (I was in Ravens).
Thursday 30th August.
This day started breakfast and parade like normal, then we were all told we were going swimming!!!
At the swimming pool people got told off a numerous number times for back-flips and front-flips. After we played a big game of volley ball in the pool!!! And after a play in the little pool a relay!!! After swimming we went to EVOLUTION climbing centre which was sooooo cool, it had no harness but just crash-mats and an upside down wall and this tunnel that people just casually jammed in! We kept on trying to complete one of the hard routes, where you climb up the centre wall, and swing across the ceiling with out dropping to the other wall, and then climb down, we all managed to go up and across but then all fell on the downward incline of the second wall. It was very hard, but fun to watch everyone fall off.
On the way back we got chicken and chips but while we waited we went on to some grass and played football and benched people, when It was ready we headed back to the campsite to eat it around the fire.
Friday 31st August.
Our final full day of the camp, and off to the beach we went. We went to Hastings beach. Mowgli and Subs set us a Sand Castle Challenge, knowing full well there was no sand at Hastings! But some of us found some sand as the tide went out, and started to build some sandcastles. We then visited the ship-wreak museum which had lots of stuff from boats that had sank hundreds of years ago. Later we got to all split up and did our own things in smaller groups, first of all me and my friends went to McDonalds to get food, then we went to the casino and spent all our money and practically got nothing. After we met back up we all had a fish and chips supper on the beach and then headed back to the site.
Saturday 1st August.
When we got up we started to pack our kit away, and sort out packing the trailer. We were allowed to eat all the food that was left over from the week, which is always one of the best bit about camp. We finished packing away all the tents, and then swept the sight making sure all the littler had been picked up. When everything was done we had some free time, and were climbing in this tree, when the branch brakes and Jake falls out of the tree with a crash! When we were all ready to go, the mini bus wouldn't start so with all the scouts pushing it we manage to get it to start and then we set off for home!!!
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