On April 24-26 we had a patrol type competition camp. On the Friday night we had to wait until the whole patrol was there before we could register. That didn’t happen until 7:30pm-ish. Once we all arrived we had to take all of our patrol and personal equipment in by hand. We got all of our necessary stuff in by late that evening, our pioneering project equipment didn’t come in until the morning after. Once we were all settled and set up for the weekend, everyone’s spirits rose a bit and we all worked great together.
It was a very hot Saturday. That made it hard to be fully participating. Everyone was tired. By the time we got to the leader dinner, some people just wanted to give up. As we knew we were pushed for time, we did our baking early. We made brownies in a pot. The weather was not on our side that night; there was a complete downpour shortly before the leader dinner was to start. The Venturers confined us to our tents until it was over, but the dinner was still cancelled, although everyone was given full marks anyway. Everyone survived the wet night, during which you couldn’t walk anywhere without getting completely soaked.
We successfully made it through the weekend and even came in 8th place out of 18 groups. That was pretty impressive noting some of the troubles we had. A big factore in getting to 8th was Eggbert. Eggbert was an egg (raw at that) that we had to protect all weekend. We constructed a case for him and he stayed intact until Sunday, when the Venturers came to round up the Eggberts for their breakfast.
Overall it definitely was a great camp!
- by Nicole – APL Gekko Patrol
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