May 17 2022
I recently went on the Elanspad kloof. It is an amazing experience that I thoroughly enjoyed. The route is along a pristine river that snakes through a beautiful valley. There was only a relatively small group of scouts attending. We stopped at the cave as well as at the waterfall which drops at least 40 …
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May 17 2022
Scouts love to go hiking so it is fitting that there is a Hiking Challenge badge for Meerkats in the Scoutcraft theme. On 19 February, our nearly full Den of Meerkats gathered at the base of Newlands forest with their leaders, parents, siblings and a dog and went hiking, 4km up, along and down. We …
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Dec 28 2021
The course taught us how to survive in the wild and build shelters. We learned the four basic needs of survival, how to start a fire with flint and steel, different ways to start a fire without matches, the things you need in a small and big survival kit, how to build a weatherproof shelter, …
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Dec 28 2021
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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Oct 19 2021
Going into the competition I had no idea what I was in for as it was my first orienteering competition. Although I had done map work and had taken bearings before during my years at scouts, I still didn’t know what we were going to need to do in this competition. We arrived at the …
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Oct 19 2021
On 28 August, I ran my community service for Discoverer. We were going to repair a boardwalk in Kildare Nature Reserve found behind Kildare Pre-Primary School. This project is especially special to me because I went to Kildare for pre-school. I have many memorable moments and special memories made in the Kildare Nature Reserve and …
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Oct 19 2021
The value of scouting for our youth is not in direct experience and the memories it creates but in the life skills that those experiences impart – the benefits of which are only fully realised years later. Without an indepth understanding of how this works, it is easy to deride scouts as a anachronistic organisation …
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