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Jul 10 2024
Friday, 12 April Today marked the commencement of Kontiki 2024. As a troop, we haven’t participated in this competition very often, so our raft design was… interesting, to say the least. Nonetheless, on this Friday, it was the day for us to pack the trailers and send them off to the sea scout base. As …
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Jul 10 2024
On Saturday we pulled up to the oval and wanted to play frisbee and 3rd Pinelands joined us. When we arrived there at the parking lot we headed down to the bottom field and put our bags in a type of shape. The first thing we did was test the frisbees out and we were …
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Jul 10 2024
For James’s Springbok, he needed to lead us through an obstacle course, and so naturally we decided to go to a bouncy castle park designed for children. Going to Total Ninja ended up being loads of fun; we played Manhunt through the inflatable obstacle course, got knocked over on the Wipeout machine and took lots …
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Jul 10 2024
We went to Daniel’s house. We started making pancake batter. Then Simon arrived late like always and we finished making the pancake batter. We went to Keurboom Park and started setting up. We started selling pancakes when a Cape Town official came past and posted what we were doing on social media. We went through …
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Jul 10 2024
Wow! Yet another term has passed by the Kestrels Company, and it was a very profitable quarter. During this term, many of our employees were preoccupied writing exams and such-like, so we naturally saw extremely high attendance, involvement and motivation within scouting in an effort to do anything but study. To start off this term, …
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Jul 10 2024
This was held at Tygerberg Nature Reserve on the 5 of may. There were 98 patrols attending, with 3 of these patrols representing 1st Claremont. The day started off with us being lifted to Tiger Man, arriving there at 10 a.m. The leaders of each patrol were Oliver Ringrose, Oliver Van Zyl-Smit, and Simon Frederick …
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Jul 10 2024
“Akela” Vivien Marks – 1940-2024 Vivien Marks was my Akela when I was a Cub from 1981 to 1984. I can still remember meeting her in the Cub Den (now the boxing room) when my father brought me to 1st Claremont to join his old Scout Group as a Cub. I remember how much I …
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Jul 10 2024
On a sunny day on some day this term Eagles made their visit to the Simon’s Town NSRI. We all arrived at the hall promptly and bearing consent forms [luckily] and drove speedily to the Base in Simons Town. We were greeted by a very modern and clean looking base with a very modern and …
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