Category: Activities

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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Oliver vzS hikes across Table Mountain

The junior scouts set out early from Cecilia Forest and ended at 2pm at Teresa Ave in Camps Bay.  David, Susan, Jonathan and Junior led the hike. It was very varied; some areas would be flat, steep, narrow and very uphill.  It wasn’t too hot and was partly cloudy.  Our first destination was a waterfall …

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Nina staffs annual camp

When I arrived at Hawequas on the Thursday I was expecting a hot five days of pioneering and burnt food. However I was not expecting to be woken up on the first night at 1am next to Alex’s tent with him inside being blown off the edge of our campsite! Despite 90 km/h winds, as …

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Tim vzS on being a Patrol Leader on camp

Troop camp was fun. Due to COVID this was my 2nd troop camp ever so going into it I didn’t exactly know what was going to happen and I expected it to run similarly to a scout competition like Gordon’s but just maybe be less harsh. I was relatively right with my guess. Like Gordon’s …

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Lost property from annual camp

There is inevitably lost property on annual camp. The tradition has evolved among the scouts that to retrieve the more significant lost property, you have to apologise to it. The apologies this year were worthy of Oscars with some fine performances from willing scouts. The eagerness with which these apologies were made and the fine …

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Playing volleyball at annual camp

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Completing the obstacle course at annual camp

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Matthew on the cub hike in Cecilia Forest

On the 3rd of September 2021 we went on a hike from Cecilia Forest up to Cecilia Waterfall and back again. It was a really fun hike but it started raining about halfway through and unfortunately not all the cubs had brought rain coats. Due to the rain, all the streams were flooded and one …

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