1st Caringbah Scouts

A BIG thanks to all those parents that came and worked hard on our hall tidying, cleaning and organising. Our hall now looks prestine.

A BIG thanks goes to all the parents who helped in the working bee at the weekend. The hall now looks pristinely tidy, organised and clean. Photos to follow soon

The 1st Caringbah Joey mob went to Frank Vickery Village to visit the locals just prior to Easter. They did craft with the residents where they coloured in pictures which then had to match with the residents picture as well as creating cut out stars which they swapped. This event made up part of their “caring and sharing badge”.

It was great to see the young children interacting so well with the elderly – both young and old had things that they liked in common – like eating pizza.

Kim

Over 70 1st Caringbah scout and family members made the long haul down to Canberra to enjoy a weekend camping at Scout Camp Cottermouth. Oh what FUN we had. Some of the highlights included:
1. Blue Tongue explaining how he was finding it hard to find the camp in the pitch black and rain on the Friday night so he chased after a police car, flashed his lights and pulled them over for directions, and then watched them nervously step out of the Police car with hands on pistols! – hilarious.
2. Attending the thought provoking dawn service with 30,000 others at the War Memorial
3. 1st Caringbah and 1st Lilli Pilli leading and marching in the HUGE parade. What an experience of a lifetime. (see Badgers seperate post)
4. Running around at 1am re-pegging and tying down our own and group tents in 45 knot gusts and cold puring rain. It was 4oC the morning after!
5. Dropping down that Questacon slide – yeeeee haaaaa
6. Experiencing a 6.2 earthquake in Questacon.
7. Arrving home sweet home.
What a great camp – see you at the Scout Hike 2009 competition next weekend.
Baggy

All youth members and leaders from 1st Caringbah Scouts played a key role in the ACT ANZAC DAY march, when an ACT organisational problem left the parade short of sign-bearers. The bearers were needed to ‘name-plate’ each military section as it marched.

Two ACT Rover Scouts, left to cover the gap, realised that 1st Caringbah and 1st Lili Pilli could make up the serious shortfall. As a result, 1st Caringbah members were able to march past the Governor General, Quentin Bryce and many appreared on national as well ACT and regional TV stations. All members were a great credit to the march as well as to our Group and are to be congratulated for surviving the bitter wind and showers in only their uniform.
We are hopeful that the march was captured by a Lilli Pilli leader on video, who has offered to copy it and there may be many single pictures from bystanding scout parents, to be added to this website.

In addition, 1st Caringbah attended the dawn service and had breakfast that morning at Campbell High School, cooked by ACT scouts.
Extreme weather conditions caused cancellation of the campfire that night and families in tents experienced storm conditions over Saturday night.
In spite of this, spirits remained high and some very worthwhile badgework was completed.
Thanks are particularly due to Kooka for organising and oveseeing the camp, to Dingo for his work in the camp set-up and take-down and to both of them for their huge efforts in the night storm.
Badger

Photos are to come!

What an excellent camp, abseiling, glow worm cave hike, night commando wide game (along with radio imposters ), fire lighting, some amazing camp cooking and a HUGE campfire.

Cammed up ready for a night wide game (no torches allowed)

Our site at Newnes

Opening Parade

Cammed up ready for a night wide game (no torches allowed)

Cam B and Jordon contemplating the stunning view during the bush walk

1st Caringbah Group at the mouth of the Newnes tunnel

Mouth of the Newnes Tunnel

Cam B cooling down after the bush walk.

Lachy R enjoying the abseil experience.

Jordon bouncing down the abseil wall – great commitment

Amy getting some hot abseiling tips

Kolo, Holly and Kara dressed up for dinner.

Roo spotted on the bush walk

Again, we had another very successful weekend with a lot of FUN for the 66 1st Caringbah Scout Group members who attended and again we brought home a stack of trophies and placings as follows:

Joeys

1st place Sack Race

1st place Hop Step and Jump Relay

2^nd place Synchronised Ski Race

3^rd place Sack Race

3^rd place Sand Sculpting

3^rd place Marathon Walk

Cubs

Winner of the Boree Knotting Challenge- Caitlin Leivesley

Ensign Shield – Boree Events Aggregate Points

1st place Raft Construction

1st place Hop Step and Jump Relay

2^nd place Carry the torch

3^rd place Biathlon Race 9 Years

Scouts

Winner of the Boree Knotting Challenge- Jessica Juretic

Taren Point Shield – Raft construction & decoration –open

Wanda Shield – Canoe Race all ages aggregate points – open

Port Hacking Trophy – Biathlon –open

1^st place Raft Construction

1^st place Biathlon Juniors

1^st place Biathlon Seniors

1^st place Canoe Race 12 years

1^st place Canoe Race 13 years

1^st place Synchronised Ski Race

2^nd place Raft Race Line Honours

2^nd place Hop Step and Jump Relay

3^rd place Canoe Race 10/11 Years

3^rd place Shot Put Ballista -Restricted

3^rd place Shot Put Ballista-open

3^rd place Canoe Race 12 years

3^rd place Canoe Race 13 years

It is great to see we won the raft construction trophy demonstrating we are improving our construction and knotting skills to a very high level. A big “BRAVO” must go to Chris B who made an excellent Olympic flag which really decorated our raft well.

A HUGE thanks also goes to Kooka for all the organising he did to bring it all together and all the other leaders and parents who worked in the back and foreground to make it happen.

We had a great time.

Joeys use teamwork in the ski race

Cubs enjoying some Canoe racing

Cubs pulling hard

1st Caringbah Cubs lead the way

The water Tug-o-war was excellent fun.

Winners of the life line throwing heat Alex, Keiran, Darcie, Bridget, Vivien and Kara.

Lachy, Jake and Kara busy constructing the raft.

Jessie J putting the finishing touches on.

The finished product constructed by Tristain, Lachlan, Cam C, Kara,

Jess and Jake J with a first place out of 28 rafts!

On the start line

Our racers brought us in 2nd out of 28 teams – BRAVO.

Please excuse a bit of repetition while we try a few different Gallery options below.

It was great FUN.

Winners are Grinners – 7 trophies to take home in 2008

We prepared really hard for this event and it paid off handsomely. We had to perform in many different areas likes fire lighting, building rafts, making ballista’s, knotting races, muffin eating races, canoing and kayaking. 1st Caringbah managed to win 7 of the 9 trophies available to the Scout Troop and the Cubs and Joey’s did us proud. Great FUN.

Another extremely successful Borree Regatta

Our illustrious Group Leader “Badger” has travelled 1000′s of kilometres to England and worn our precious 1st Caringbah scarf at the birthplace of scouting – at the ‘Scout Stone’ on Brownsea Island- by me—-in the pouring rain!! (typical English weather).

What an excellent turn out and most importantly a LOT of FUN was had. MANY THANKS to Cath Beauchamp and Hayley Richardson who did sooooo much work to make this valuable fundraiser happen. Plus thanks go to all the Parents, Leaders and Youth members for their help behind the scenes. Check out the short video of the Fair below.