Sep 23 2026
On Sunday morning, Sam, Emily, and I were at the hall bright and early to pack. We arrived at Keurboom Park at about 8:45 and started unloading the equipment. There were lots of dogs. Soon Michaela arrived to help. We started the construction by tying 2 very tight sheer lashings. Throughout the day various other …
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Sep 23 2026
For Emily’s Springbok Community Service we painted murals at the SPCA facility in Grassy Park to make the space look fun and funky. When we arrived at the SPCA, we were given green volunteering shirts, then we went to the first wall and started painting dogs. Emily sketched a few dogs on the wall in …
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Sep 19 2026
The theme of my widegame was The Very Hungry Caterpillar , based on the very well known children’s book. All of the bases and STAs were somehow linked to the story itself, or caterpillars in general. One of the most important STAs asked the patrols to plot all the bases of the widegame on a …
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Jul 28 2026
It was pointed out to me that my Springbok Camp was less of a Springbok activity and more of a regional event. And with Scouts from 8 troops across the Western Cape, I can’t disagree. I was lucky enough to have scouts from 1st Hermanus, 1st and 2nd Somerset West, 1st and 4th Claremont, 1st …
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Jul 28 2026
For my major project, I decided to run a banquet for 30 guests with five courses. The theme was Alice in Wonderland, and guests were asked to come wearing their most magical Wonderland look. I was absolutely blown away by the creativity of the outfits (shoutout to Josie Blaine for winning Best Dressed!), and the …
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Jul 19 2026
Emily’s hike to put it simply, it was an experience to say the least. Small disclaimer Emily is not very smart to put it kindly for doing springbok (I got permission to say this) So the first day was an expedition as the path wasn’t there but instead there was a RIVER directly in the …
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Jul 18 2026
Emily’s wide game was super fun. We all arrived at Kirstenbosch to start the wide game, where some patrols were combined to make the teams bigger. We then set off on our first bearing to Base 1. Every patrol had a different starting base. Our first base was first aid, where we had to splint …
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Oct 06 2025
Tim’s springbok ceremony was inspirational, lots of friends and family of Tim’s. We started by lighting the scout laws in darkness and then with Simon bean introducing the schedule for the night and then began with speeches and photos, Holly Raine had an exceptional speech as well as Ov and Daniel Le Jeune, Timothy VZS …
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