This year a joint party from Chapman, Swift and Seal Scout troops camped next to the River Wye, one bridge crossing away from Wales and the Forest of Dean.
We were blessed with a beautiful week in a pretty miserable summer and were able to run two patrols.
During camp we…
- Pitched camp
- Wide games
- Climbed up some really steep hills
- Explored a cave
- Found a rope swing
- Found a geocache
- Prepared dinner (and breakfast and lunch…)
- Played with the fire
- Competed in camp Olympics
- Natural rock climbing
- Washed up
- Orienteering trail
- Full day MTB ride and hardly fell off at all
- Canoeing up the river Wye and went for a dip
- More wide games
- Prepared and lit fires
- Hike to Simonds Yat
- Crossing the River Wye using a rope barge
- Visit butterfly farm
- Frisbee
- Struck camp
- Helped put all the kit away
And among other things the following were on the menu (mostly cooked by the scouts)
- Chicken Fajitas
- Strawberries and cream
- Bacon and egg rolls
- Porridge
- Spit-roast beef, roast potatoes and veg
- Chocolate bananas
- Full cooked breakfast
- Homemade minestrone soup
- Vegetable curry
- Eggy bread
- Burgers
- Pineapple fritters
- Patrol leader’s own choice
- Dutch-oven blackberry sponge and custard
- Breakfast burrito
- Chicken skewers
- Swiss roll and custard
- Camp doughnuts
Thank you
As well as a huge thank you to the leaders (Matt, Michael, Nigel, Pat, Emily and Oli) for giving up their time (and to their families for allowing their time to be given up) to spend scouting and to all the young people
We are very grateful to St Michael’s Prep School who kindly allowed us to use one of their minibuses
To the Woodcraft Folk for supporting Biblins campsite
Places and services we used
Biblins Youth Campsite, their climbing and their canoeing instructors
Forestry England: Forest of Dean