Wednesday

It's raining. Quite heavily actually but that's really not unexpected on a Cambria camp. Everyone is wet but happy.

So today the Explorers were Rock Climbing and Coasteering. The scouts spent the morning making shields ready for medieval night and then went sailing in the afternoon. 

The 8 older scouts doing their expedition challenge spent a couple of hours gathering food and kit and packing everything into waterproof bags. They cleaned down the muddy rowing boats (of their own accord...) and packed their kit aboard. We waved them farewell as they departed to Brownsea Island for a night on their own. Is it ok to admit I had a tear in my eye as I was so proud of them? Well ok so we have leaders shadowing them but they don't know that. All they know is that they have check points planned for certain times over the rest of the day. They also have to cook their own dinner and set up their own camp. 

Back on the main campsite we've all had dinner (pasta) and now doing some sailing theory worksheets. We've also had word that the scouts on Brownsea Island arrived safely.

Waiting for the apple pies in the oven to finish cooking and then probably bed!