St Johns Wood Scouts

The night was good.

It started with a bang at around 7.30 (or a general murmur of conversation at least)… The three of us joined with Oakleigh and the group from Grovely to form two teams of four: “The Randoms” and “We hate Sean”. There were a number (12 i think…) bases which each group had to get around to. Being on the 25th, there was a “Christmas in August” theme. Bases included making snowmen out of balloons and shaving cream, tearing minty wrappers (an activity at which Hamish and I were pros, having “prepared” the entire journey home from nighthawk), and pulling “Santa and his elf on their sleigh”, which involved two team-members being “reindeer” to haul the remainder of the team on a go-cart.

Then, there was the annual race around the block which warmed everybody up for a brutal, savage, and downright chaotic game of “Stone Age Rumble”.

Hello Everyone,

The Night Hawk was very successful for our SJW Scouts as our Youth did an excellent hike, catching up with other patrols and answering well to the questions. They’ve left at 8:15pm and returned at around 2am while we were deeply asleep…
The temperature dropped to 3 degrees and the fog swamped the area until the sun had well and truely come up.

The best location for the kitchen was at the Grand Hotel (also called a stable, thank you Rob Alexander for the idea). Mike did some valuable repair to the stove and Bruce did magic with the frozen steaks while Alan had some extra home-tin soup.

There were 800 Scouts and 300 Venturers. Our Scouts finished 2nd out of more than 120 patrols and received a cheque and a shake from the Chief Commissioner. Next year the event might be even bigger.
Put it in your agenda

Gabriel

Larger images are available at the gallery.

The SJW Venturer Unit has been busy during the last few months with the NightHawk 2006 and numerous hikes. A report on the NightHawk will come soon. In the meantime, I suggest you check out our Venturer image gallery by clicking the link below, to see more of what we’ve been up to:

Venturer Image Gallery

Some pictures of Baden Powell, the founder of Scouting:

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