Last night of Term at #Scouts and another Night Hike…of sorts.
It was pitched as wandering around the village doing challenges last week (a chippy hike without the chips was my impression)…but was actually a walk AROUND (part of) the village.
…So it was woodland and country path walks in the dark rather than suburbia.
It was a very different experience to Cubs this week. There are a lot more Young People, they have Young Leaders (lots of them), and I wasn’t in charge!
I've had a fun night yesterday. Went with a local #Venturer #Scout group (Beachhaven) to do a water safety and #freediving session. The 11 youth *loved* it all, and got lots of boxes ticked for their water safety badges up to level 7 (highest level). On top they've learnt heaps about themselves and how their body reacts, what the signals mean, and how to (re-) act on them, so that they would remain safe (e.g. while #spearfishing) or be able to spot trouble and assist.
It was heaps of work to get the pool across the line by making the case, planning, documenting safety protocols, writing safety documents, having sufficient supervision ratios, etc. But it was well worth it, and we want to do it again (next term or so).
A highlight was to also have a new venturer invested under water in the pool. The Scout Promise was more like a 'hummed column of bubbles', but it made us all happy.
Also, I finally got a photo and some video footage of doing a 70 m demo DNF swim in my freediving gear while wearing my scarf and woggle ;-)
Oooh, I'm all excited!
This week THU the venturers section of a local scout group (Beachhaven) is doing a #freediving session with me in a local pool. It'll be geared towards general water safety, particularly with respect to spear fishing (very common here). It took quite a bit of effort to get that across the line with the pool, but we've got a very good safety concept documented and agreed for it. The kids in the group are already very excited (just like me). They should be able to tick quite a few boxes for their next water safety badge requirements, too.
I've got hopes that the odd one may get into it and join our club (for more comprehensive training). And that we can pull this off for more sessions in the future too.
I'm also keen to get a picture of me doing a DNF (dynamics no fins) dive wearing my Mayfield scarf over my wet suit, too. :-D
"Scoutisme : la nouvelle offensive de Pierre-Édouard Stérin"
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Plusieurs acteurs du scoutisme français s’inquiètent de la récente création des Cadets libres de France, un nouveau mouvement derrière lequel plane l’ombre du milliardaire d’extrême droite. Dans le milieu, beaucoup redoutent sa volonté d’« évangéliser » la jeunesse au profit d’un agenda réactionnaire.
I joined the #Scouts at the Cotter Shield this weekend. As part of the Scouts Archery team, we ran one of the six stations.
The interesting part was that I knocked up a program that added heraldry and siege engines with #larp bows and arrows. I was surprised how well it worked with the archery and with the kids themselves.
Canoe weekend with South Met Region Adventurous Activities team from Grays Point to Bundeena (and tomorrow back)
Tonight was Backwoods Cooking at #Scouts.
First up, an experimental hotdog sausage wrapped in a thin damper.
Then toasting marshmallows, some did s’mores.
Followed by campfire cones, with their choice of chocolate, fruit, etc wrapped in foil and put in the embers.
The fire-building prowess of some of them was a frustrating watch. There's a few that should be much better by now, they haven’t been in my Cub Pack for a while now. If anything they’d regressed.
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OMG, last evening here. Gonna go back home the next day #scout #onceascoutalwaysascout #onceascoutforeverascout
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