350 Scouts from the Canterbury region, and their leaders, camped for 7 nights together in troops. Our boys had only 12 from their local group going so they joined in with a troop from another division and made one trooop called the Brussle Scouts. They have special troop scarves to wear just for this camp and theirs was a bright pink and white gingham fabric with smiley faces all over them. They had to wear these and their scout shirts every meal time in order to be served.
Lunch Stop at Rakaia
We stopped at Rakaia to eat our lunch around 11.30am, and it was a very hot 30 degrees sitting under a tree. We arrived at the camp at Staveley, which is at the base of Mount Somers, and then the wind came up.
Looking out towards Mount Somers
What a nightmare trying to pitch tents and marquees in winds that were over 100kms an hour! A few tents were ripped in the process and a number of marquees in the campsite had to be taken down before any major damage was done to them or they became unsafe.
Erecting the Brussle Scouts troop marquee
A meeting of all the Brussle Scouts in the troop marquee.
Brussle Scouts campsite.
At one end of the camp a very large marquee was erected and there was seating for the whole campsite 400+ people, to dine every night together. They ate breakfast and made their lunches in the marquees at their own campsites.
Some Brussle Scouts, Shea, Matthew and Thomas on the ground, enjoying some shade.
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