The final day of our first ever Summer Camp with #89thBremore scouts dawned bright and early. There was still a lot to be done. We needed to get a lot done. Tents needed to come down, gear needed to be packed away, and the site needed to be cleaned. Breakfast was a done and dusted with what was left over. There were rice crispies, cake, toast, biscuits, fruit, you name it. The van was coming at 12 to collect the gear and the bus was coming at 12:30 to bring everyone to the tr

Again we were heading off site today. We were going to go kayaking with a local adventure centre. A small Land Rover showed up to collect us from the site. It was going to take a while to get all 17 of us to the adventure centre at this rate. Brendan and Alan went with the first group. The most exciting thing on the journey was when Sophie spotted a spider in the back of the jeep. You know the way you tell people that the animal is more afraid of you than you are of it? Let’s

Thursday on camp was our big day out. The day started out like every other, flag up auction and breakfast. Once this was done we got ready to go to Strandhill for some surfing. On the bus there was a stage 2 of the singing from the night before. Soon as we got to Strandhill surfing school we were kitted out with our wetsuits and booties and then had to go change, for some of us this took quite some time. Once we met our instructors and headed down to the beach we got our firs

We were spending the day in and around Lough Key and the campsite today. There was no Jog this morning as we were having a bit of a lazy day. After Flag up and the morning auction, we had another brilliant breakfast of Rice Crispies and toast in the Wet Weather Shelter and we gave the scouts time to prepare for a full kit and site inspection. They were a bit confused as to the reasons why the leaders wanted to see all of their kit, but we explained it to the PLs and it was ok

This was going to be another action packed day. We were heading to Lough Gara Riding Stables for a day full of activities. First there was the matter of Flag up, auction, and breakfast.All of this was done with the minimum of fuss and when the bus arrived at 10:30, we were all ready to go. It was only a short trip to the far side of Boyle. It was trying it’s hardest to rain on us and a few drops did make it through, but nothing major. When we arrived at the stables, we dropp