Rafting Camp - Nov 2015

On our last camp for the year we decided to go on a rafting camp to Arrowe Park and do some fun rafting.

We camped with 1st Peter Place and 1st Benato and had a great time. We spent the first part of Saturday building our small movable rafts. This was a great training exercise for all those who had never build a raft before. We then had a series of bases where we could test our raft mobility.

After bases we had a Jedi fighting base where two rafts faced off and were joined by a plank. Members of each team were given pool noodles and had to knock their opponent off the plank. This was lots of fun and each team would challenge other team members, including the scouters!

Another base was catapult building where scouts were given staves, ropes and water balloons and were tasked at building catapults that could hit scouters 5m away.

Dinner that night was another Dutch Oven Cooking experiment where we made pizza! This was such a success and definitely something to be repeated.

This camp was a great fun, relaxing camp and definitely something we will do again. Thanks to all the scouts who attended and to 1st Peter Place and 1st Benato for camping with us and inviting us to a great weekend.

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Kontiki 2015: There be dragons

Kontiki is the annual rafting race where scouts are challenged to build a raft and live on it for 24 hours.
This year's Kontiki was held from 15-17 May and the theme was "There be dragons" and it was all about exploring unknown places. As usual Adiero participated in Kontiki and, as usual, we did phenomenally well. There was approximately 50 teams at Kontiki this year and our overall score put us at 15th with our raft crew coming in 16th. The meal competition for the shore team, that was run by 3 Pathfinders, came in 4th! The meal competition is often run by 16 year-olds in other troops but our Pathfinders beat most of them and did so well.

We're all looking forward to next years theme "Jedi Knights"!

The whole troop before raft launching

The cooking team waiting to get judged

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BP Camp 20-22 Feb 2015

This year we did something different to honour our founder Lord Baden-Powell. Instead of going out just for the day our entire district decided to camp at Camp Delta.

Our programme for camp was very varied and involved semaphore, knotting, playing games, joining in the campfire and cooking. We did Dutch Oven Cooking for Saturday lunch and it was a great time. We made chicken stew, two loaves of bread and most importantly, pudding. Pudding was a peach cobbler of sorts and tasted amazing.



 

We all agreed that this camp was a relaxing fun camp and we definitely want to do it again next year.

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Ubuntu Camp - Jan 2014

The third Ubuntu camp was held this year at Delta Park Camp Ground. It was very well attended by Scouts from all over the Province, 133 Scouts attended. Adiero joined in and had a Patrol camp there. It was great fun as we did pioneering, woodcraft trails, played games and had a big campfire on Saturday night. We hope to attend more Ubuntu camps throughout the year and congrats to the organisers of the event.

Photos of the whole camp, the troop doing pioneering with other scouts and the campsite where we camped and made out shelters.




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BP Camp with 1st Randburg

On BP Weekend (22-24 February) we ran our first BP Camp. This was done as a Scout's Springbok camp. 1st Randburg was invited to add the extra patrol that we needed. This was a great camp as there were many fun and interesting activities. It was great to have a camp where there wasn't a competition and it was about being on camp with your fellow scouts. Some of the activities we did were:
Archery

Minute-to-win-it games - which were small simple activities/games that the scouts did to earn points for their patrol.

Catapults - each patrol build a catapult that they then used to play war games.

Saturday night dinner - cooked dinner on the fire suing only tin foil. Chicken, potatoes and butternut were all very good

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Kontiki 2012

This year Kontiki was postponed to end of May as Arrow Park was a flooded on the usual March weekend. This year the theme was Vikings.
 
Our raft design this year was the funeral pyre typical of Viking burials. This was a unique idea, as only Adiero can, and it came off very well as we came 5th in theme.

Campsite this year was a lot smaller than it usually was owing to the change of venue but still we managed to have a good time and participated in all aspects of camping competition. 

This year Kontiki was an eventful one and was a refreshing change form the normal. We did really well and came 8th for raft and 11th for campsite with an overall of 8th. This is a fantastic result for us and we are so proud of every one to participated and helped out.

Thanks to the organisers for arranging such a great time.

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Kontiki 2011

The end of March always signals Kontiki is coming and this year the theme was “Kontiki visits Rome”. This year we decided to compete in all of the competitions and build a raft and shore camp. As usual we never do anything boring we decided to host a brand new girl scout troop on their first ever Kontiki. 1^st Edenvale girls have been going for three months and didn’t have the knowledge of how to do run Kontiki effectively so we decided to help out and teach them.

The raft was run by one of our scouts and consisted of 6 Adiero girls and 2 1^st Edenvale girls. The raft had a different design to what we have usually built but it worked well and provided a lot of shelter for the girls. The raft crew did very well and managed to complete the raft and get it on the water where they did very well in the mobility challenge.

The shore camp also consisted of Adiero and 1^st Edenvale girls and they all did a great job. Everyone got there on Friday and started to setup camp. This was successful as we managed to almost finish the beaver challenge and the 6m table on Friday. Edenvale managed to learn the dress up on Saturday morning and they all enjoyed doing our dress-up of the Latin scout verse. The rest of Saturday consisted of teaching Edenvale how to build a campsite and the cooking competition where the PL of shore did a great job and made really good food.

One of our favourite events on shore was the STA (Spare Time Activity) where we had to create a chariot that the emperor would want to ride in. The girls had lots of fun decorating a trailer and dressing themsleves up to look like emperor, queen, driver and slave. Well done girls for ebing so creative.

All in all Kontiki was a great success as we came 16^th overall with raft coming 14^th and being on the reserve list for chairman’s and shore coming in 29^th. This was very successful for us as we got to teach our younger scouts how to teach and teach 1^st Edenvale how Kontiki works. We hope that they have learnt a lot and will come back next year by themselves and do a great job.

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Kontiki prep camp

This year we held Kontiki Prep camp at the hall so that we had all our equipment at our disposal. We started during scouts and build our beaver challenge. This was slightly challenging as it was raining and so it had to be built inside...on tiles. The girls learnt a lot and really loved the idea we had and seeing in action was very exciting.

Saturday was spent teaching everyone how to build the gadgets in camp. This was very successful as each gadget was built and refined.

As with most of our prep camps there were lots of discussions about how to build and how to refine certain gadgets and these discussions results in very useful and very funny ideas.

Kontiki Prep this year was very good and we are prepared for Kontiki and hope to do well (as always)

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Kate's 1st class camp

Kate held her 1st class camp over the weekend of the 23-24 October. It was a great camp with fun and relaxing. The girls really enjoyed it as the got to go on a camp that was not a competition but was about just having fun - which is what it's really about anyway.

They arrived on Saturday morning and set up their tents and shelters and build a table ('cos you can't just eat on the floor). Kate taught them some of the basic knots and lashings and then they were challenged to build a tower out of kebab sticks and string that could hold a glass of water. The girls did a great job and designed four different towers to test the strength. Each tower was tested with a glass of water and each one held it very successfully and, knowing us, that wasn't the end. The breaking capacity if each tower was tested and this was lots of fun to see when the towers would fall over.

The girls then made chicken curry and bread for supper which was enjoyed by all. When it was time for bed the girls climbed into their shelters only to be met by the rain so the shelters were abandoned for a dry night in the tent.

On Sunday morning it was time to pack up and go home after a great relaxing camp. Well done Kate on a great camp!!

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Compo camp Aug 2010

This year was the first time that the Provincial Camping Competition was held and both of our patrols attended. There were a total of 17 patrols in the competition form Randburg, West Rand and Southerns districts. The camp was run at Saddle Creek and run according to West Rand competition rules.

The patrols did very well. Bats came 7th over all and Crocodiles came 9th overall which is great for a first compo camp. Bats were also 3rd overall in cooking.

Well done to all the girls that attended!!

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Kontiki 2010 goes to El Dorado: Shore

Here is the second part of our Konitki story - the shore! The shore is generally divided into five parts: the campsite, beaver challenge, competition meal, STA and dress up.

Campsite
The campsite was well constructed with our famous octopod gateway, table that could seat the whole troop and a new design for the prep table that was perfected at Kay's camp.

Beaver challenge
This years beaver challenge used the raft because we did not launch it so we decided to give cubs and young scouts the opportunity to explore a raft. Each cub/scout was required to wear a life jacket while on the raft and then they had to count the number of coins hanging as decorati on the raft. The cubs/scouts really enjoyed this as they got to explore a raft - an activity previously reserved for older scouts.

Competition meal


This year Christine organised the competition meal and did an amazing job! The food was excellent (of course). She led a patrol that made vegetable pancakes, crumbed chicken strips and a delicious fudge tower that looked like the Mayan tower, and yes, everything was made from scratch - crumbed chicken and fudge - everything! Thank goodness there was left overs and the rest of the troop got to pig-out when they returned

STA


The STAs (Spare Time Activity) are a great time as the girls get to be creative and make stuff from nothing. This years STA required us to build a catapult. This tested the whole troop as building a catapult from scratch is a quite difficult - especially when we have nothing elastic to create the necessary force. But, we managed to build quite a successful one that shot a acorn 6m and for a 1m-arm-stave-and-sisal catapult we think that's impressive.

Dress up

For this years Dress up we used the campfire song "Old Fashioned Ford" and changed the words to become "Old Scout Patrol". All the girls wore their Kontiki shirts and acted out the words. One person who should be mentioned is Kate who was the PL who's grown a beard - attaching a tin foil beard to someone is a very Adiero thing to do.

The shore competition this year was very well organised as each senior person in the troop had a job to do. In general Kontiki was an excellent experience for all! We came 15th for the campsite which when added with the raft gave us an overall position of 16th. Still one of the top 20 troops in the Area and for one for so small we're very proud of ourselves. Next year - top 15!!

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