A messy week and some problems with one of our Scout boat trailers meant that this camp did not get off to quite the start we’d intended, but eventually we got most people and most things to where they needed to be, and set up tents for the first night in readiness for the weekend’s activities. […]
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Dramatis persona*
Helen Chick
I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"! I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1! * Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona. Visits since May 2016 |
As a Scout leader, we get to do some training to improve our practical and leadership skills, with the main leader requirement being to earn the Wood Badge (see these earlier posts, where my friends May and Matt earned their Wood Badges). Once you have earned a Wood Badge you are a member of the 1st Gilwell Scout Group […] Unlike my Easter wanderings, which stayed on its lower slopes, today’s small Scout hike (which involved a small number of small Scouts, covering a relatively small distance since it was only a day hike) actually climbed to the top of Mt Direction. The leader:Scout ratio was rather generous, as there were three adults and three Scouts in […] For a variety of reasons I haven’t been able to attend the annual Mariners Trophy competition for Scouts before now. It involves a weekend of sailing and rowing events, plus tests of other Scouting knowledge, and patrols compete in teams of (ideally) 7. This year I was able to go, although unfortunately I didn’t take many […] A long day, which began with me having to reassemble my prepacked-ready-for-Scout-camp bag, which had become disassembled after Jamboree and Regatta. It was a rush job, and so it still isn’t quite in the state I used to keep it. I went to work. It was a lovely day outside … and so I took some photos […] The March long weekend brings the annual Guide and Scout Regatta event, held at Snug. We topped last year’s best ever attendance-from-our-troop, and had a very enjoyable and successful time. On the Friday evening, as has become our tradition, we had an investiture ceremony up on the cliff tops in the dark … only this year […] Every two years Hobart hosts the Australian Wooden Boat Festival, which showcases lots of wooden boats, large and small. This year our Scouts were invited to come along and build a couple of wooden canoes. These are made from plywood (and the guy running the workshop pre-cuts the pieces for the kids), and then assembled with […] On the last official day of Jamboree we started to pack up most of the tents. This necessitated some steam-rolling (to get the air out) and also resulted in the amusing extrication of a large rock with a tent peg firmly drilled through it (to our surprise, we managed to retrieve just about all the pegs […] The 12th this month fell on “Celebration Day”, which is my least favourite day of Jamboree. The place is invaded by visitors (another 10000 on top of the 10000 already attending), and there is meant to be a festive market day which is a great idea in principle but never seems to entirely work in practice. Here […] Jamborees are big. Really big. There were about 10000 people attending this one, which means lots of logistics, lots of food, and lots of tents. Here is an aerial view of the Jamboree site (and, yes, a trip to the loo involves a bit of a walk, which is always a hassle when there’s an urgent […] |
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