Apr 04 2024
The day started off early as we started our journey up to Vlakkenberg Peak. The day was quite warm and the sun was beating down relentlessly. Many water breaks were needed. Along the way we encountered beautiful views surrounded by the mountains. There were not many trees around so we treasured any small bits of …
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Apr 04 2024
On the 21st of January, a brave few adventurous scouts, friends and parents of 1st Claremont set out on a quest of getting to Klassenkop without anyone dying. On the extremely dangerous journey up, the adventurers were met with many a challenge (e.g. Daniel’s choice of route and Daniel himself). Luckily everyone got up fine, …
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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
Bats Log Bats had a wonderful term. We got Three new scouts namely Harry, Layleh and Jean. They are all hard working and very active which is great to see. Harry was a cub but the others are new to it and it’s been great to see them latch on and enjoy the movement. We …
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Oct 17 2023
On the 30th of July, Bats Patrol went on a cavalcade exploring the heights of Table Mountain. We traversed from Constantia Nek all the way along the mountain to summit Cleft Peak and then went down and passed around Hely Hutchinson Reservoir and through the flooding aqueduct to Nursery Ravine where we hiked down the …
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Jul 18 2023
Obstacle Course Meeting Obstacle courses are a prime example of why scouts is supreme. A hundred different things that could go wrong, and 6 scouts that are determined to make it go wrong. People like Peter, for example, are loophole-finders. When the PL is banned and the majority of APLs don’t feel like it, juniors …
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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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