Monthly Archives: July 2016

Scouts Annual Camp to Larch Hill

Well done to the 14 Scouts and accompanying three Scouters who attend the 19th Galway Athenry Scouts first ever 8 day/7 night camp. The camp was held at Larch Hill International Scout camp site which is nestled in the foot hills of the Dublin mountains. The Scouts helped put together a brilliant camp programme which was a mixture of Scouting activities such as Camp Craft, Backwoods cooking, two Hikes including a night hike to the Hell Fire club and fun activities such as a day trip to Dublin City, Viking Splash tour and a day trip to Bray.

Camp Setup

Camp Setup

Taking a break

Taking a break

Patrols in Action

Patrols in Action

Tents Ready

Tents Ready

While on Camp the Scouts had a lovely 45 minutes with Robbie from Scout About Radio. A podcast of the show will be available in the next few days.

Scout About Radio

Scout About Radio

Chilling

Chilling

During camp the Scouts made loads of new Scouting friends in particular with the 73rd Dublin Raheny Scouts. As can be seen from  the photograph below after the neckerchief swapping it is hard to tell who is 19th Galway Athenry/73rd Dublin Raheny.

New Friends

New Friends

A high light for many of the Scouts was a day trip to Dublin, a trip on the Viking Splash Tour and a chance to do some shopping.

Viking Tour

Viking Tour

St Stephens Green

St Stephens Green

Each patrol was responsible for preparing, cooking for each meal cooking on Gas or timber fires depending on the time of day and/or meal.

 

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

You want me to do what ?

You want me to do what ?

An investiture was performed at the Hill Fire Club and several Hiking Adventure Skill Badges awarded.

Hell Fire Club Investitrue

Hell Fire Club Investiture

Fairy Mount Selfie

Fairy Mount Selfie

We had two camp fires over the course of the camp and were joined by several Larch Hill staff members at our last camp fire. Several Camping Stage 2 and 3 were awarded at the last camp fire.

Where did that smoke come from ?

Where did that smoke come from ?

The PLs had regular meetings to ensure camp was running well and that the patrols were happy and working well.

PL meeting

PL meeting

Two Cub Scouters visited on Thursday and Friday and even got fed!

Well done to everyone who attended camp and helped in making the camp a success.

As there are over 500 photographs the photographs have been broken down into different albums which are available here.