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Cubs 2022 Terms 1 and 2

By Stephen D’Arcy-Evans – Pack parent helper Comings and Goings It is always fun to welcome new cubs into the pack and with Meerkats up and running, we have regular intakes of new members to keep us on our toes. Happily with the Meerkats experience behind them our young cubs have settled in quickly and …

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Oliver gets wet on a First Class hike

We started at Teresa Avenue in Camps Bay and finished at Constantia Nek.  It was Alex Clark’s First Class Hike and we were a group of four people.  The weather was sunny with a few clouds but lots of fog up higher in the mountain.  Along the way we found a cool cave and we …

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Meerkats in the First Term

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James explores Elandspad

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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Upton in Photos

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Luke has a tough time on Kon-Tiki

Being PL of a competition that we haven’t done for a few years was rough (last time we attended Kon-Tiki was in 2017). There was a lot of uncertain planning and a bit of confusion to go with it. Pre-build was great and definitely a good idea, although it didn’t help that we decided not …

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Kon-Tiki in photos

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Smoke Signals 4th Edition 2021

As the year draws to an end, we review the last term in a year of scouting in the second year of the COVID pandemic… Our Meerkats are a very active unit under the leadership of Judith Bishop. Meerkat equivalents around the world have proved to be highly successful and the the South African version …

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