Monday, May 5, 2014

New Scout Campout report

     New scouts & old joined together for activity stations, fishing, and a large scale monkey bridge at Roosevelt S.R. in New Jersey this past weekend.  There was a great turnout of adult leaders too, as new dads & old gathered to lend a hand during the weekend.

     We have ten new scouts this year.  These boys were put through some activity stations run by the older scouts - learning how to pitch their own tent, how to start a campfire & cook foil packs over coals, how to participate in a color guard & flag etiquette, and how to recognize poisonous plants. 

     After the learning business was taken care of the boys broke into two groups and either went fishing or built a monkey bridge.  The monkey bridge was on a grand scale, and Mr.'s Landis, Mundy & MacEwen came for the day to help supervise the construction. 



     The fishing was good.  A variety of panfish, bass and catfish were caught.  Live bait & artificial lures were used but mostly live worms had the best result.  The weather was good except for a evening shower that cut our campfire program short.  When we got back to town we heard that a bad thunderstorm had gone thru Wilmington, but we didn't have any rough weather across the river in Jersey.  Overall there was a fun relaxed atmosphere on this camping trip but we got work done too.

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