Challenge Course and a good turn
Today, the cubs met at the County Scouting Centre in Cranham for a go on the Challenge Course. This is an assault course set up along the Cranham stream, with plenty of opportunities to get wet and muddy!
Because the site wardens were worried it might be a bit slippery with the recent rains, Akela went first. The narrow balance beam across the stream was the slipperiest riskiest part, but everybody made it across without disaster; the hardest part turned out to be the monkey swing across the stream, which many became stuck half way along! But after everyone had had a trial run, we upped the excitement with a timed trial.
The only person to get really wet was the one who fell from the monkey bars straight into the stream, who was wet from head to toe, but still cheerful and unbruised!
As with everything we do at the County Scouting Centre, it was a great success with all the children!
Then the Scouts did a good turn for the school. The school has kindly let us use their computers on several occasions to work on IT badges, so we were happy to have a chance to repay that kindness by helping to clear the playground. Weeds spring up along the edges of the tarmac and fallen leaves accumulate in odd corners, turning into a thick mess, so an intrepid group set out to help clear it all up. Well done everyone!