Competition Camp 2009

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

D.I.B.C. 20

On May 8th-10th i was attending the massive camp Dorchester.I thought this camp was amazing. On the friday night everyone was pitching in to help out get the campsite ready so we can go do our own thing. Even though the weather was really bad with all of the rain it was still really fun. As I went to the leaders meeting we had to walk all the way there in down pour. But when we got there the food was great.

Saturday morning the cooking preparations were going slow but eventually we got it done and went off to opening. When all of the patrols went off to the activities we all had a lot of fun. But then it started to pour down but my patrol kept going to have fun no rain was gonna stop us. At lunch time the lunch meal went so quickly and got ready so fast plus it was really good. After lunch we headed off to do more activities it didn't rain. After we were all done our activities i think the best activity i did was the axe and knife throwing and the obstacle course even though i was doing them in a duct tape mini skirt. When we got back to campsite dinner was on it's way. Everyone that wasn't on duty could go do whatever they wanted for a bit and maybe find some new friends badge trade all sorts of fun stuff. Dinner was so good and different, Pepsi chicken yummm. That night was really good because it didn't rain or any bad weather. At the concert it was pretty good I didn't mind the band. After the concert we went back to sub camp and had our auction the wild fox did a amazing job we didn't do that bad with 26 points in the end.

On Sunday morning everyone got there gear packed up pretty quickly which was really good. then we got our stuff put away slowly. Eventually we got everything packed up and we were out of one of the most amazing camps. But we got to go home. And we said good bye to those good times.


- Dan H - Hungry Hippos