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.

Nord17 Day1 - The Longest Day.

What a day. We've been travelling since 0530 bst. 20 hours on the move.
We've had a little minor wazzockry but no serious mishaps.

After a nice early start, we made our way to Heathrow and on to Stavanger where we were met by the ever helpful leaders from Madla Speidergruppe. Our bags safely stowed, we had a leisurely stroll to Solva Beach where dinner was served. After a few hours playing on the beach, we made our way back to check in for the onward flight to Bodø (pronounced Booduh apparently).
The sun was just thinking of setting in Stavanger as we set off but we soon caught it up and were treated to a fine view of the midnight sun over the Lofotens as we came in to land. Our bags were ferried for us and we had a gentle 3k walk to camp.
Unfortunately, the registration team had gone to bed so it took a little while to work out where we should be but we arrived at our site to find that the Madla advance party already had our tents up.

Time for a few hours well earned sleep before the camp starts for real tomorrow.

Hopefully, when they've had some sleep, we'll be getting a few Scouts to contribute to the blog this time!