Tolmers 2018 Day 3

Here we are at the end of day 3.

Bacon egg and beans for breakfast followed by flagbreak and activity sign up.

Today our Scouts activities have included Climbing, Gyroscope, Swimming, Kayaking, Giant Slide, Laser Tag, Caving and Quad Biking.

After a pretty good curry, it was back up for flag down and some evening activities including a showing of The Greatest Showman in the camp cinema.

Other Scouts spent the evening making their own activities around the camp fire under the watchful eye of 1st Melbourne's young leaders.

It's something we try to nurture on a camp like this. By providing free time we allow the scouts to use their imagination and independence - skills that will be invaluable in later life.

The leaders rejoined the camp fire a little later for a small Scouts Own.

Everyone seems to have enjoyed today's activities and it's great for the leaders to watch the team dynamics develop and personalities emerge in a way that just doesn't happen on shorter camps.

What activities will they choose tomorrow?

Ctt2018 Day 2

And here we are at the end of day 2.

It's been a long day but loads of fun.
After a 7am start to get breakfast cooked and cleared away, the Scouts set off for flagbreak armed with 100 or so clothes pegs, all marked up with our #followthedragon hashtag.

The idea is that you attach these pegs to someone's clothing without them noticing. Our Scouts certainly have plenty of enthusiasm for the game. The necessary finesse may develop as the week progresses 😂

At activity sign up, the Scouts get to choose their 4 activities for the day.

Choices for today included: Pedal karts, Gyroscope (Just watching makes me feel sick!), zip wire, zorbing, climbing, inflatable obstacle course, trampolining, laser tag, Kayaking and swimming.

In between activities,  our Scouts have been getting to know some new friends in our joint group for the week, 1st Melbourne Scouts. Football is always a favourite but Bottle Rockets is proving quite popular too.

Tonight there were a few more "drop in" activities including a cinema and pedlo racing. Or, less organised but certainly popular was chilling around the camp fire.

It obviously all worked as the site went quiet much earlier than last night!

Hopefully that means there'll be plenty of energy for tomorrow's activities.

Tolmers 2018. Day one. Three wheels on my wagon

Look who just got back today.....

It's the third time at Tolmers for some of us and we're definitely glad to be here.

We arrived a little later than planned thanks to some minor difficulties with the minibus. We had to change a tyre before we could set off but found that the spare was flat too. Thanks to the parent who took both wheels to Barry to get the tyres changed.

The M25 was much kinder today than on previous trips so we made good time and arrived in time to help 1st Melbourne Scouts set up our joint campsite.

The scouts have all been fed and watered and are either asleep or at least talking quietly enough not to bother anyone.

Camp starts for real tomorrow with the first of 5 days full of activities.

Oh, and we've got the first batch of #followthedragon pegs marked up and ready to go. 😁