Category: Cubs

Anjali earned her Leaping Wolf

The Leaping Wolf badge is the top badge that a Cub can earn. Anjali earned her Leaping Wolf in her final term as a Cub before going up to Scouts at age 11. Below is part of her logbook about the different tasks she completed to earn the badge.

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Arwen wrote about Cub Camp

Arwen and Rhys left Cape Town and moved back to the UK earlier this year. Before she left, Arwen wrote this this article about our Cub Camp. We miss you guys! I went to cub camp from the 25 – 27 February.  Cub camp was at Hawequas and it took two hours to get there. …

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Christopher writes about our Paradise Park outing

We had a very fun outing to Paradise/Buckburn Park.  It started with 3 Cubs being invested in the park which was fun. Then we did a nature scavenger hunt looking for interesting things – one of the things on the list was a big smile, and we all had them! We split into bases.  My …

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Jenny writes about Cubs in Term 3

Jenny wrote about activities in the third term: a visit from the ER24 ambulance service, a night hike, and cooking “stokbrood”:

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Star Trek Cub Camp

It’s been a long time since we have been able to hold a cub camp, and we were really happy to take a big group of cubs to Hawequas Scout Campsite this year for a joint camp between the 1st Claremont and 4th Claremont packs. Elton le Roux ran the camp to complete his cub …

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Cubs 2022 Terms 1 and 2

By Stephen D’Arcy-Evans – Pack parent helper Comings and Goings It is always fun to welcome new cubs into the pack and with Meerkats up and running, we have regular intakes of new members to keep us on our toes. Happily with the Meerkats experience behind them our young cubs have settled in quickly and …

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Senior Cub Camp – Survivor

Two of our 10 year old Cubs (Axel and Karina) took part in this year’s Senior Cub Camp in April. This is a Survivor-themed camp for cubs from across the Western Cape. The camp started with the cubs arriving at Hawequas campsite late on Friday afternoon and taking part in some ice breakers as they …

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Cubs’ 4th term highlights

Trek Cart The “Trek Cart” is one of the oldest Scout traditions. These are hand carts that were used in the earliest days of Scouting to take equipment to camp, and you can read about one in an article about a 1st Claremont journey from July 1908. These days our trek cart lives on the …

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