The final countdown

Today was the most exciting day and the perfect way to end our time at Blackwell. We did two activities which were both fun and scary! We climbed on a huge wall which we scaled up with great speed and zoomed down the ropes when we zip-wired (my favourite was definitely the zip-wire!) After all this, we sat down and ate a portion of fish and chips whilst enjoying the amazing view.

Now that we have reached the end of camp, I can see that we have all bonded as a troop and that we are much closer to each other than we were before. This is mostly because of the amazing activities that we have had to privilege of doing. And to finish off, we drove up to a hill near Birmingham and had a true British classic: fish and chips.

As it is the end of camp we did the best activities today zip wire and climbing and I think all the leaders are excited to be getting rid of us on Saturday. 

This years summer camp has been a great summer camp the food was good especially the fish and chips and banquet the activities where fun apart from site service.

Matthew, Ollie D, Lewis and Kai

Banquet anyone?

Today we did crate stacking and played capture the flag, then after that long 2 hours of running around we sat and enjoyed a nice banquet of three bean chilli with rice and nachos. Then for dessert we had cake and custard with popcorn.

After crate stacking in the morning, we did some  site service during which we cleaned up the roads etc of leaves and branches. We were then blindfolded and led to our banquet. We had chilli with sticky rice and tortilla chips. And for dessert we had an odd combination of popcorn and custard.

Today was the ever loved banquet which was chilli made with strange enough DARK CHOCOLATE did taste nice though but still never put choclate in chilli but before all that we did some crate stacking (ya-hoo) after that we did some strangely fun community service.

After 6 days on camp, we have been soaked, sick and hurt but yet, everyone is still happy and today we did clearing the woods and community service (not as punishments) we also had this really cool banquet with a delicious pudding. That is day 6! Let's see what day 7 brings! 

Cameron, Henry, Cal and Ben H 

They've gone to bed!

Ok, the leaders are still awake discussing today's antics. Assault course, Camp Olympics off site, Blind Trail and Backwoods cooking. The funniest moments were when we had just lit the BBQ Pitts for dinner. Scout "A"......"Are we going to cook on those?" Reply "what do you think?"  

The boys tested on their knot knowledge, for a cake. I've never seen so many scouts look worried and contemplate if they were actually hungry!

We were lucky with the rain. Only endured 3 hours of torrential  rain this evening. Clear now and outlook good.  

The older scouts did their good turn for the day helping the guides take their tents down. Funny we had no shortage of volunteers!

An announcement for you all....

So today we do not have a blog post from the Scouts. The reason for this is the Guides. Now next to our pitch, we have around 190 guides mooching around and enjoying silent discos but as times have passed, a few Scouts have ventured over to talk to them. Some ran back in fright, others egged the older ones on and the leaders just sat back and laughed. Nonetheless they are now all playing a game of rounders and if you don't believe us then take a look below!

The Leaders :) 

Hiking McHike

Hello my name is Adam and we have had a great time so far, today we hiked into bromesgrove it was really long but we got there in the end and I was really happy beacuase the Poundland had peach rings with are the best sweets in the world.

Hello my name is Oscar and I have had an amazing time and had a great time walking into bromesgrove and spending my money in all sorts of shops and I can't wait to do raft building and kayaking tomorrow I am really excited.    

Hi my name is Chris and at the moment we are singing but I've done hill sledging and a good hike. Tomorrow Is water sports.

Hi it's Jacob we have had a great hike it was a bit wet and overgrown but we got there some of the under 13 we got the bus back and also some of us our sleeping out it's going to be cold can't wait! 

Ben's experience

Today we had a vital life lesson that no one except me and Cameron can read a map. This resulted in a unique reaction followed my rage. Any suggestions on how to vent anger..... yes I'll have some cake! Mummy challis can I have apple crumble when I get home. :)

Hello! This is Ollie I'Anson speaking. I am hear to talk about the showers. I am disappointed at the moment as after ten seconds I had to press the button to turn it on. Also it was not a power shower. Also we are really excited because we are sleeping under the stars in our hammocks. 

Today we have had the best food of the camp and we are now going to sleep in hammocks outside all night. My patrol is the best of the best obviously. Bye bye people of the world!

Today, we did grass sledging, We raced down and a had a number of races to see who was the fastest! It was great as there were different levels we could do it on. Luckily no one crashed!

Ben C, Ollie I, Zak and Lloyd 

Travel time

So we got in a minibus then we waited 3 hours while we ate food. When we arrived at the campsite, we put our tents up and had a toilet check.Then we put up are dinner shelters. Next we played football then we ate dinner and had pudding.IT RAINED. IT RAINED AGAIN. IT RAINED AGAIN and we starting writing a blog! Also, shoutout to people in tent number 1, please close my door or our clothes are gonna be drenched! All in all, good start to summer camp!

Adam, Fin, Josh and Amir