Senior Scout Adventure 2014

The Adventure programme provides unforgettable adventure and fun in the famous backpacking country of the Cederberg Wilderness Area along rugged, rocky trails. Programme features combine the best of advanced Scouting to provide you with fun and a real challenge - water activities, rock climbing, the ultimate challenge game, underwater diving, sailing, and many more! This is an unbeatable recipe for fast-moving enjoyment and action. If you are a senior Scout, 15 years or older, and you are looking for high adventure and an outdoor challenge in a famous mountain wilderness, then the SENIOR SCOUT ADVENTURE in December has been designed for you!

Come and experience the feeling of adventure and achievement backpacking and climbing in a vast unspoilt wilderness well known for its unique features like the Wolfberg Cracks, the Wolfberg Arch, and the Maltese Cross. Enjoy the soaring peaks like the Tafelberg, Groot Krakadouw and the Sneeuberg with their cliffs, pinnacles, ravines and valleys. When hiking along the high trails, thrill to the eye-stretching sweep of the peaks marching into the blue haze of distance. 

For more information visit http://www.scouting.org.za/adventure/

Save-a-Place entries for hiking participants to attend this adventure close at the end of this month on 31 July 2014.

Scout Patrols comprise a maximum of 9 Scouts between the age of 15 and 18 and one adult Mountain Ranger.

Your questions may be answered by looking at www.scouting.org.za/adventure/Downloads/InformationBooklet2014.pdf.

Scout Scarf Day : 1st August 2014

The idea of "World Scout Scarf Day" on August 1 is that all active and former Scouts are requested to wear their Scout scarf in public to make the "Spirit of Scouting" visible: Once a Scout - Always a Scout !  

You can visit www.facebook.com/Scout.Scarf.Day to see more detail   

In 2011 the day coincided with the World Jamboree in Sweden which was a perfect opportunity to show the close bond to all the Scouts attending.

Of course, the scarf is only a symbol but a strong symbol for the Scout Promise and for our mission to leave the world as a bit better a place than we had found it.

Our scarf colours are shown above for all to see. We wonder how many other Scouts wear the same colours. Please email us and tell us your Scout Group name and we will add it to the detail below with your website address.

1. Harmelia Gardens Air Scouts

Save our Rhinos

Some detail below taken from the website http://www.givengain.com/cause/4273/

23 May 2013: The number of rhinos poached in South Africa since the beginning of 2014 now stands at 350. The Kruger National Park continues to bear the brunt of the poaching, with 242 rhinos having been killed in the National Park since the beginning of 2014. In the North West province a total of 29 rhinos have been poached, while 28 have been poached in Limpopo, 33 in KwaZulu-Natal and 17 in Mpumalanga. The Gauteng province lost its first rhino to poaching this year during the past week.

RHINO SA Project is a youth-driven, outreach and awareness initiative aimed at educating today's youth about the unmitigated and ongoing slaughter of South Africa's rhinos, and, thereby actively involving the youth of South Africa in Rhino Conservation and Heritage Preservation. 

The Green Wall of SEE Project - Rhino SA Project are touching the lives of 2000 to 4000 pupils a week through their education and awareness program.

Attached above is a picture that was coloured in by one of our Scouts who attends the school at which this program was launched. The Scout gave the picture to Hathi (me, the name the Cubs in our Group call me) as he knew I love pictures of all wild animals.

Gauteng KonTiki 2014

Our Troop participated in the annual Gauteng Scouting event, KonTiki.  This year the theme was "KonTiki Goes Green" thus protecting our world. The event was held at the Scouting Camp Site, Arrowe Park in Benoni which is on the shore of Homestead Lake.

Some YouTube videos of the activities done at the event have been posted on YouTube and they can be viewed using the indicated links

Part 1:       http://youtu.be/bESGQTc2Eu8

Part 2:      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-0abF-juKc&list=UULtLWfCQNFtksedqg4D3p6A

Part 3:      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZLxs0cSZDQ&feature=share

Our Scout Group would like to thank those involved in the production of the YouTube videos. These give a great insight into one of the Scouting activities Scouts participate.

New Scouts South Africa website

SCOUTS South Africa launched the 1st phase of the development of the new national website.

 

The aim of the website is to reinforce the fresh, dynamic and innovative brand and to cater for the needs of many audiences.

 

The website address of the new site is http://scouts.org.za/. The old website address will automatically route you to the new site.

 

The screen capture shows some detail of the "Home" page and that of the "Our Team" page. 

 

Congratulations.

 

 

Creative Paper Art/Craft

Below is detail of an interesting website suitable for Cubs and Scouts wishing to build "paper craft" designs.

 

Visit the website to see what is available, download your interesting design, print on cardboard and then follow the included instructions to build the design.

 

The attached pictures show the designs of a rocket as well as that of a Boeing 777-300 ER that are available.

 

Website address is

http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/2027/list_15_1.html

 

Have fun.

"You are Limitless" says newly inaugurated Chief Scout Sibusiso Vilane

On the 15^th of March 2014 Sibusiso Vilane was inaugurated as the new Chief Scout of SCOUTS South Africa in the presence of nearly 500 youths and invited guests in Nelspruit Mpumalanga. 

When addressing the Cubs and Scouts after he was inaugurated he stated “I pride myself in serving you. My message to you is never to limit yourself. You are Limitless! Strive for great heights and remember that it is not about where you were born, where you live or what you become, do or have. It’s about what legacy you want to leave behind.  

Remember that with determination, hard work and perseverance there is nothing you cannot achieve! I encourage all of you to take all the opportunities that the Scout Movement is giving you and make them count!” Read his inaugural address here