Christmas activities at Bunnings
The boys had a lot of fun making Christmas decorations and jumping on the jumping castle but the best bit was the mass drumming session. Thanks to Belmont Bunnings for putting on such a...
Category: Cubs
Kenyan food, freezing heads, farewells and birthday cupcakes!
A huge thank you to Loise for cooking us some amazing Kenyan food. Akela explained some of the history of Scouting linking Robert Baden-Powell and Kenya. In honour of the boys going up to...
The wettest camp in history
What a great camp. The Cubs rode in to camp in the rain and it didn’t really let up all weekend. …and we still had a great camp! The Joeys had their own little...
Cooking in the dunes
It was a much more pleasant evening for a hike than last week. The spring flowers were out and the local Landcare group are carrying out some excellent work. We learnt some fire lighting...
Father’s Day evening
What a great night with the dads. Newspaper hockey, cooking on a fire and the amazingly messy stress ball parachutes. Thanks to all the dads for getting so involved! Finished it off with some...
Fernleigh Track ride
We had a great ride along the Fernleigh Track tonight, starting at Burwood Road and finishing at Redhead. We initially road along the track towards Adamstown until we made it through the tunnel (the...
Cat frenzy
Continuing the pet theme, we discussed cats this week …and budgie’s too (since snakes and mice went without carnage last week). Akela arranged for a real cat to come for a visit and Kye...
Pets at the hall
Continuing the pet visits to our hall, this week we had the potentially disastrous combination of a turtle, a snake …and a mouse. Fortunately the snake was neither adventurous nor hungry and the mouse...
Campfire cooking
The boys made themselves a billy and then cooked 3-minute noodles on the fire. If only Chil could light a fire that didn’t smoke so much! Hayley has volunteered to take over as chief...
OMG We’re farewelling another one!
Dear Noah, we’ll miss you. We hope that you and your family enjoy living in Queensland. You’re always welcome to visit if you’re in Newcastle again. At least we got a beautiful night for...