Tonight we had great fun making our own orienteering course for the other groups to do next week. We had two two groups making a course with cameras one with compas co~ordinates, and one with traditional orienteering course. As an act of great kindness our group gave...
Tonight we made bird boxes as part of our nature programme theme. We used a range of power tools and good old fashioned hammer and nails to create nesting spots for our feathery friends. The completed boxes have gone home and the Explorers have a challenge to provide...
In preparation for the Geoffrey Gordon Cup next weekend we had a day out in the hills to do a bit of navigation practice. We had a good go at doing back bearings, walking in a compass party and timing and pace counting. The navigation was challenging at times as lots...
The radio group were planning a 5 – 10 minute advertisement that promoted explorers. Some of our objectives were to denounce explorers as just grown up scouts and show that we had fun instead of just tying knots.We used WWWWH ( Who What Where When How) andsorted...
Some of our activities carry ‘Gold Star’ rating this means that we can’t give you too many details about them in case our younger sections nick the idea. Let’s face it if you have good troops in your area – which we do – then...
