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
Day 1 For me and a few other scouts from 1st Claremont this was going to be the first Rayner that we had ever been on or experienced. From what people were saying it was a very difficult location to get legal hiking access to so we should be very happy to be doing this …
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Apr 04 2024
This year’s first Pioneering Scoutcraft course of the year was run at the 1st Claremont scout hall base with about 40 scouts from various different troops in the region. This is a fairly large turn out for a course, but it’s great to see that there are so many scouts trying to pass off a …
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Oct 17 2023
The air was buzzing with excitement as all the scouts going on Holly’s Springbok Camp packed the trailer. The weather was very warm and sunny and we thought this wondrous weather would continue throughout the camp regardless of the weather forecast. Little did we know… After a long drive with only sheep to entertain us …
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Oct 17 2023
Between 23 July and 14 August, Tim, James and I were 3 of the 108 South African scouts that attended the 25th World Scout Jamboree (WSJ) held in South Korea. Arriving at the Cape Town International Airport at 7 a.m. we were all buzzing. We were flying with Singapore Airlines the whole time, stopping over …
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Oct 17 2023
An experience I will never forget Every 4 years the World Scout Jamboree is held, attended by tens of thousands of scouts from every corner of the globe. This year the jamboree was held in Saemangeum, Korea. Our South African contingent was composed of over 100 scouts and 30 adults who departed on the 23rd …
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Oct 17 2023
Day 1 We arrived at the wild fig cafe near the liesbek river. We started off by getting into pairs after Joel told us that whichever pair collected the most rubbish got a chocolate (and because of the buddy system..). W.e started off our trek by walking along the side of the river and picking …
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Oct 17 2023
On the 7th of July we had a patrol camp. We were supposed to camp somewhere that wasn’t Hawequas but unfortunately the campsite flooded because of rain – and because the campsite was flooded the camp had to change location and that new location was…. Hawequas. It started raining while we were packing the equipment …
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