woods and water camp

! The wood and water camp !

Hi, I’m Lorcan and I’m going to talk to you about our experience as scouts at the wood and water camp at Kiplin hall.

Friday-

Today was the day we all arrived, eight of us in all, we got there and we set up camp. We trekked to the flagpole to officially show we were there. Well, I say trekked, 50 yards really. We put up our British flag after a bit of hassle and saluted respectfully. Then we had yummy hot dogs for dinner. After a tiring and stressful day, we all went to bed in our spacious tents.

Saturday-

Today we woke up nice and early for our day on the water. Packing our bags took a while because some of us didn’t exactly get it all right. For breakfast, we had delicious bacon sandwiches cooked by ourselves. Then at 8.15am, we drove down to Ellerton water to do kayaking, canoeing and sailing. I enjoyed canoeing and kayaking capsizing because we were all together and I had a boat that didn’t make my feet and knees ache. We got back after a tiring day and we played blocky in the dark which was extremely fun and exciting.

Sunday, the final day! –

Today was Sunday, our final day. This day wasn’t all about packing up, this day was for axe-chopping, sawing and whittling with our pen knives. The axe wielding was really satisfying and dangerous because we were swinging them all about the place and the wood chippings coming off were hard to avoid for the people nearby. Sawing was excellent because when I finally broke through my second log, I felt a sense of achievement. I made something called a bow and arrow but my dad of course didn’t see that and decided to snap it in half. All in all we had a very fabulous time.

Lorcan
Patrol Leader 
Badger Patrol

Disclaimer:  

Axe and saw skills was conducted in a safe area under direct supervision of an adult - the description "swinging them all about the place" is used with artistic license. 😊😊

Scout Canoeing

Canoeing & Paddle Sports

My name is Matthew and one of my hobbies is canoeing.  I’m a member of the British Canoe Union and Canoe England.  I started canoeing with a friend in May 2013, he had already been canoeing for at least 4 years so I had a lot of catching up to do!

I paddle a k1 which is a type of canoe in the slalom family. 

There are other types of canoe in this category;

 A C1 has one paddler, a bigger boat with a one sided blade

A C2 has two paddlers with a massive boat, two smaller paddles

A K1, this is the boat that I paddle, has a smaller boat but you have got a duel bladed paddle and that’s all of the slalom family.

They also have divisions (called div for short) like football there are div 4, div 3, div 2, div 1 and premier first. I’m going to talk all about div 4.  If you have not been canoeing then you will be in this div you do, next on the line is div 3.  This is the div I’m in there are races that you earn points and there races that don’t get you points.  These are called open races and on the 15^th of June 2014 I came 8^th  in a race at Green Star Canoe Club hosted by Doncaster Scouts and got awarded first scout I hope you enjoyed reading my blog.