Home, Garden and Sydney
Recent activities include ducklings in the Camellia Gardens near here, a Probus paddle to SW Arm then Saddle Gully Creek all at high tide, a pic of front garden then the raft built by the scouts on the spot in a race at the Annual Boree Regatta Weather not good
Family
Jacqui asked for a day kayaking in the school holidays, so we wen t to Reid's Flat at Audley on the Hacking river and paddled to 'Muddy Creek' which ends in a small rapid and waterfall inside the Royal National Park. It was a perfect day
Home, Garden and Sydney
Frank was a good mate through scouting. He initiated and oversaw the construction of the scout hall. His sons were all scouts there and recently several of his granddaughters. He was a happy, optimistic, generous man with a great sense of humour, very respectful and polite and always encouraging. Every
Home, Garden and Sydney
I visited the scout hall on Venturer scout night tonight to invest some Joey and Venturer scouts and stayed on to find that I'd been left with them (11 mixed) while all other leaders had a meeting to discuss the Jamboree in Mayborough! They made cupcakes and other
Scouting
Tonight at our Scout Group AGM the State Commissioner printed me with the following certificate--it was truly unexpected, especially the 30 years! I thought it might be 20 or so. So it became quite a momentous evening, especially as there was an almost unheard of total change of parent
Scouting
It's like trying to get an octopus into a string bag, finding a date to suit a sufficient number of the 20 leaders for a leader meeting - but always very worthwhile and a lot of planning done amid a lot of laughs! We had 10 plus three visitors
Scouting
Tonight a Venturer Scout was presented with her Queen Scout Award at the hall. There were some very good video clips of Tayla in Kanderstag , the world scout camp site in Switzerland as well as the NZ venture expedition. Here she is shown with the traditional wolf head holding tabs
Kayaking
Down at Cronulla kayak centre at dusk, I presented two new Cub leaders with their appointment certificates, made up a poem about water safety and footwear, from a real incident and supervised a water training excercise. Great fun! Some of the cubs could only kayak in a circle, which was
Music
On Wednesday I was invited with other leaders, to a reception held by the current Prime minister, 'Scomo' for the launch of a big annual community fund raising event designed by a previous Federal minister, Bruce Baird, a good bloke, to assist community groups make money with least
Kayaking
As a qualified kayaker, I was asked to assist as leader, with 19 cubs at Swallow Rock recently. They were fine on land but as soon as we launched it was like herding cats--or ducks maybe!
Home, Garden and Sydney
Been a bit warm here lately. My car recorded an outside temp of 44 Deg C when I got into it, the other day, then it cooled to a chilly 35! People wonder why I stay so long as Group Leader in our Scout Group. Well, when a leader moves
Scouting
It was very encouraging to see these young people run a well-managed AGM, with printed agenda and reports and go on to elect a full committee, committed to basic scouting activities. They are well set up for the year ahead.