Posted by Conor Crowley | Posted in Camp 2012 | Posted on 26-07-2012
Hello all, as previously mentioned the old Internet/WiFi/3G signal is more than fairly poor up here on site; its 2am and the noises of the campsite have died down and calm has desensed once again as I type this entry. I arrived here last Friday evening to the site along with Richard Scriven, our Venture leader who had been here the previous weekend also, and it was a great site to behold.
Scout troops from Douglas, Passage West, Clare, Birr, Athy, Malahide and Backenstown, Dublin all on the one site. Weather has been as expected but despite the rumours we’ve suffered no damage or mass flooding during any rainy period.
In the last week the lads have taken part in Zipit, a collection of zip lines, rope bridges etc suspended several meters in the air through the trees in the Lough Key Forest Park. They’ve also been boating, using the rowing boats available on Lough Key.
They’ve been into Carrick-On-Shannon, which is only about 10 mins drive away, and no doubt that’s where all the lovely gifts for everyone at home were bought.
On Tuesday the big day trip took place to Bundoran, Co. Donegal, where we began with surfing lessons and everyone really enjoyed the day on the wild waters learning to surf followed by the compulsory trip into the many amusement arcades in the town. We’ve been swimming in Carrick today but not before we had a great bit of fun earlier with balloons, water, and shaving foam!!!
The final campfire was held and only finished about midnight and it was a great way to end Camp 2012. We’ll be home around 17:30 tomorrow but any change to that we’ll let ye know.
As Group Leader I want to thank each and every Scout & Venture Scout for getting involved in this years camp. I want to say a massive thank you and express my gratitude to each and every leader that made this camp yet again a huge success.
I’ll forget someone so please forgive me in advance; thanks to Vickie Swanton, Peter McCarthy, Mary Scriven, Richard Scriven and Gavin Shanahan for giving up some of your free time to be here at stages over the last two weeks.
Thanks especially to Enda, Nick, Wendy and Cian for the trojan amount of work you have done these last two weeks and the many beforehand planning every aspect of this Camp. Thanks to all our leaders at home for their efforts beforehand also.