Posted by Admin | Posted in Camp 2015 | Posted on 08-07-2015
Day three – written by 6th Cork Scout, Liam O’Donovan
We got up at 7:00am to pack bags for our day long hike. We took the bus to the starting point of our hike Little did we know that instead of climbing a mountain or going on a trek trough a valley we took an hour long walk in the country on the side of the road, fortunately we didn’t get splashed by any oncoming traffic and there wasn’t much of it. We were given packed lunches which were eaten before we got to the town. Various strict safety precautions were taken in advance to prevent any casualties. It took us about an hour to get to our destination, Newtownbutler in Co. Fermanagh.
When we arrived we spent about 20 minutes siting in the rain as we were unable to find any open shops or restaurants, we sat across from a cottage named “The Cottage”. When we continued our search for shops we found the 47th group, who were also wandering around aimlessly, we found a spar in which we bought a list of food and drinks. We stood under a bus stop for another 20 minutes after giving up looking for a supervalu when someone walked past us with a supervalu bag. We found the supervalu minutes afterwards. I bought a jambon and it was delicious. We spent the rest of our time in a nearby public park before parting ways. We took hundreds of wrong turns before, after 2 hours, finally getting picked up by the bus.
Day four – written by Venture Scout, Mark Salter
We were woken up at 8:15 by Michael with his peaceful voice. We were told by our patrol leader Laura Hurley(Salad), that we would be doing water activities. After our breakfast we left the campsite and walked to a river where we found out that we would be kayaking. We were given our equipment and were brought out on the water. Some of us being a little more comfortable than others. After spending our time on the water, we returned to the campsite for lunch. The second we returned for lunch we realised that everything inside the boys venture tent had been covered in tinfoil by the 2nd Cork Scouts. Everything inside Shaun Stanley’s bag had been covered in tinfoil including everything inside his wallet. The best ones were the hammer, the 45 individually wrapped tealights and the fact that they used 75 meters of tin foil. We would like to thank Michael (Venture leader) for coming up with this prank and his only regret was not buying more.
We were then supposed to go raft building but it had to be rescheduled. So to our surprise we were brought bowling. On the way there Conor (Group Leader) gave us a lot of useful information such as that Castle Saunderson was owned by the Saunderson’s. Enda dropped us in the middle of nowhere and we had to walk and were late. Everyone enjoyed it and Shaun Stanley got the fastest bowl of 19.5 mph and Brian getting the slowest of 2.3 mph. After returning to the campsite we played a game of rounders where Michael was way too competative. Cian (leader) was a huge cheat and was a sore loser even though his team lost fair and square. After Michael screamed at us to go to bed we said our prayers to almighty Michael and went to sleep.
Next update in a few days…
