Archive for September, 2009

Posted on September 28th, 2009 by by jason

Scouts – Bomb/Rescue Squad Sep 09

We attended the Police Centre in Zetland where we were shown a presentation on the roles of the Rescue Squad.  Did you know the Rescue Squad is also responsible for attending bomb incidents and as such we were shown how the bomb disposal robot works and can even walk up stairs!! Number 5 is alive! [...]

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Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by by jason

Scout – Market Stall Fundraiser

On Sunday the 27th of September 2009, Jessica J led 10 other scouts to help the global and local communities by running a second hand clothing stall at the monthly Caringbah Markets for her Scout Medallion Project. All money raised went go towards bringing a scout from Vanuata and funding our own scouts to go to the [...]

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Posted on September 19th, 2009 by by jason

Scouts – Small Bore Shooting

Our over 12 years old scouts joined 1st Oyster Bay Scouts to enjoy some shooting at the Sutherland Small Bore Rifle Club and we had a great time. We were taught the key parts of range safety, how to shoot, sight and correct our grouping placement.  We shot from 2 different body positions, “prone” which is when [...]

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Posted on September 14th, 2009 by by jason

Scouts Challenge Camp – Sep 09

Well, what an excellent time we had.  We dodged the wombats as we headed out to the Old Ford Campsite in the Blue Mountains on the Friday night.  Then we hiked along the 6 foot track following the Cox’s River,  (seeing an Echidna, a red bellied black snake, 3 brown snakes) until we reached the famous Bowtell’s [...]

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