Oct 06 2025
Lauras camp was a banger. The day started off with us not being able to get to the campsite due to some dire flooding of the river (RIP Lucy’s license plate). We continued the first day with some campsite construction and some yummy food. We did a short knowledge relay with knots and skills. We …
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Oct 06 2025
For my first class community service we went to the Christine Revell Children’s Home. This is a home for children ages 0-6, the children here are placed here under court order. We went on 2 days to the home, on both days Christopher and Axel went with Group C, which is children ages 4-6. They …
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Oct 06 2025
The aim of Joel’s project was to make a big tower. There were many people, lots of delicious snacks and cake, and lots of pioneering, it took us a while to finish the structure and then we had to haul it up, it took lots parents and help but we got it up and almost …
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Oct 02 2025
We had a lot of fun at Joel’s comm serve at the Oudeom Molen food garden. In the week that we spent there we built a water feature, some birdhouses, we painted some signs for the garden, we constructed a chicken coop, we painted the shed, we moved piles of bark and had a lot …
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Jul 10 2024
For my personal challenge I wanted to hike the 3 Peaks: Devil’s Peak, Mclear’s Beacon and Lion’s Head, all in one weekend. We started at 6:30 on Saturday 23 March at the parking lot for the Saddle on Tafelberg Road. I hiked with my Dad and my godmother Kate. When we started it was dark …
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Apr 04 2024
On Friday the 15th of March Malika, Tristan, James and I went to Groot Winterhoek for James’ springbok hike. The first day of the hike we were hiking up a valley to Groot Kliphuis. There were lots of prickly and spiky bushes and branches that scratched everyone’s legs. We arrived at the beginning of the …
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Apr 04 2024
In the recent January holidays, a group of us went on Jame’s Springbok camp at Delheim Estate, Stellenbosch. The two patrols were originally called The Lizards and The Snakes; and we then changed them to “Pronutro” and “LWeetworths” (with a silent ‘L’ : ). After arriving at Delheim and unpacking, we ate our packed lunch …
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Jul 18 2023
Kestrels Company Termly Report Term 2 of 2023 was very eventful for the Kestrels Company. Many business ventures were pursued , including James’ First Class hike, Juliet’s Discoverer community service, a patrol meeting, a massive profit margin resultant of a badge frenzy, a very wet patrol camp, and an overall 2nd Place in Moscip finish. …
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