Cub Scout and Joey Scout Night Ramble

Last night saw the Cub Scouts and Joey Scouts come together for a night ramble around Beenleigh. This was a get to know your City ramble.

The members were given clues to locate aroind Beenleigh. Items to find were a Pizza Hut menu, Video Ezy magazine, train timetables, highest PO Box number at Beenleigh Post Office, plus many other fun things.

The night provided a chance for them to use manners and learn to wait patiently and ask for items without fear. These are all lessons that we have to learn and conquer as we get older.

Bagheera got in trouble for using his compass - not an actual compass - but his general idea of the area. Unfortunately Google Maps provided some help as the round about in the heart of.Beenleigh is a good basis for directions. Sort of helps if you inform others of it first. :-)

In the end we walked around for 1.25 hrs and ended up with a bottle of water amd hot chips from Red Rooster. The members, and those assisting, seemed to enjoy this activity.

Bagheera would like to thank my fellow leaders and parent helper, Joey leader and helpers, plus the two Cub leaders from Ashmore, as well as all the parents that came along. Your help on the night was invaluable and we have plenty of lessons for next time. One is to advise Police of activity, mind you they were in god spirits all night with sirens going off everytime they saw us out.

To the businesses that allowed us to take over stores; Video Ezy, Pizza Hut, Beenleigh Train Station,  and Police. Thank you for your patience and caring attitude as we came through, it was duly noted.

A special thanks goes to Coles Supermarket who supplied water for us as a gift, and to Red Rooster for the donation of the hot chips also.

To the young lady at the deli in Coles, your patience when waiting for the youth members to provide the words to earn the reward, is greatly appreciated.

And all I have left to say is bring on Christmas Ramble 2012 - Let's find Santa!!!

Cub Scout Camp - the afternoon

So what do you do with 22 Cub Scouts when they have been to the beach. You sit them down to do craft!
With Mother's Day next weekend the Cub Scouts made a picture frame from timber, got to nail and glue them together. They then went about fixing sand and shells collected in the morning.

 

Their Mum's should be pleased with the results as most took extraordinary efforts to make them nice and picturesque.

While waiting their turn the other Cub Scouts were entertaining themselves with games frisbie, football and knock down.

 

Once completed and afternoon tea had, it was upstairs again to ready for downtime. We head off to the beach once more. However, we are no longer quiet puppies as we are now singing loudly all the Cub Scout hiking song. If people didn't know who we were they did after that. This chorus was hears all weekend as we hiked to and from the beach.

Once their all Cub Scout braved the rough water. Those not strong swimmers stayed close to shore or came in with a leader. It was a great way for us all to chill out after a busy day.

 

The walk back was long and slow. We had acheived the result of exhausting them :-). Back for showers and dinner.

Cub Scout Camp: To the Beach

With Cubs well fed, it is now time to get serious. The Cub Scouts are sent to get ready for the beach.

Once ready a short hike to the Burleigh Heads beach is all that it takes to excite the cubs once more. Here we have a chance to get ready for the next activity. The activity is to build a sandcastle, with a moat, bridge, gate and flagpole.

To the sand they head and begin the task. As they come to life those with more adventureous tastes build great castles. However, they seem to be having trouble not keeping dry when fetching water for their moats! Not only that they are struggling to keep the moat full and try many ways to keep the water in. However, when you build so far from the water and the sand is dry nothing will make it stay.

After assessing the designs, we settle that everyone did a great job and delivered to the requirements. So to pack up we have to return the beach to normal by destroying the things we built. Oh did they not like that! ;-).

Once done we head off down the beach to look for shells. On the journey we see different types of shells which are collected for the craft activity later that afternoon. But I think most just want to swim, alas we will have to wait to this afternoon. What makes it worse is a sandbar is exposed and they all want head out to it.

After the tip along the beach and not being able to look at the rock pools due to tide not out far enough, we begin the walk back to camp for lunch. Along the way we stop for visit at the war memorial to look for the marker for the 'Unknown Soldier'. This completes the 'Our heritage, our service' badge for those that attended ANZAC services.

Onward to the camp and food, we earned it. Pizza stacks and sandwiches all around. The morning tea earlier was long burnt off as the Cub Scouts feed well.

Cub Scout Camp - Arrival

Camp is finally here! The Cub Scout have arrived and are located their rooms upstairs. Each Cub Scout was  allocated a room with a sign on the door. Each sign has a name on it that represented the name of one of the Hawaiian Islands - Maui, molandi , Big Island..

This set the tone for the weekend. We did not tell the Cub Scouts what they were, only that it had to do with the camp theme and there was a clue on the doors. Alex L was the first to guess them and earnt a badge for that effort.

One of the first things to greet the Cubs was a shark called Lani. He was there as the weekend mascot and protector of the kitchen. One little munchkin that dropped of their brother got a right fright and would not go near him. Too real for her :-)

Once settled we held parade and went the rules of the camp. We also told them that they had to solve 3 puzzles.

1. what the names on the doors meant
2. what country Hawaii belonged too (none got it without taking a lot of blind stabs, we had Russia, Asia and plenty more until Kalb guessed it late Saturday)
3. who was killed thee who had ties to Australia? Captian Cook. Alex H got that one on parade.

Once parade was over it was upstairs to change into costume for Campfire. The grass sjirts and loud shirts, plus silly Venturers added to a funny sing-a-long campfire. This was the first time we had run it on opening and we will do again, but have things more prepped as it had no skits. Still it was a good one and the Cubs learnt all new songs.

After campfire it was off to the beach for a ramble and hopefully find sand crabs running along the beach. Alas, the tide was in and no crabs to be found. However we were privileged to see floating lanterns being released. Apparently this is an annual event for an Asian ceremony of remembrance. It was a great spectacle and amazing to watch as the floated by on the night wind.

On returning to camp, it was time for bed - yeah right - lots of late night chatting and a few grumpy leader moments saw them quieten down around 1am.

It was a good start for a weekend that would be loaded with activities.