Scouts Summer Camp 2008
The Scouts held their Summer camp deep in the New Forest at the wonderful Ferny Crofts. We got very muddy in the bomb hole, celebrated two birthdays, made a pilgrimage to the home of Scouting on Brownsea to renew our promise, built sandcastles on the beach before munching through fish & chips, and got camouflaged up by soldiers at Beaulieu.
In between we lit the odd fire, climbed very high towers, went for a bike ride, tried using a sextant, cooked over open fires using just aluminium foil instead of pans and learnt to build rafts that then fell to bits… whoops!
A selection of photos have been added - with more to come soon. Just click to see what we got up to.
It was a fast paced and intensive week. We’ve never before run such a large Scout camp: 2 minibuses, 2 transit vans stuffed full of kit, 26 scouts, 2 young leaders, an average of 6 adults per day, and a couple of other children tagging along for the ride. (We also chomped through 592 rashers of bacon, lots of sausages and tons of cake 
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Everyone was thoroughly done in by the time we came home. Let’s just say there must have been a fair number of bathrooms in Hampton Hill sporting a new tide mark the night that we came home!
Massive thanks to all the leaders and supporters who came along to make the week possible. Well done on pulling together a first rate camp. But mostly, well done to the Scouts for making the most of the time on camp.
Simon