The Super Blog - 25-08-2010
OK, prepare for it. The Super Blog.
I'm gonna do my Scout Leader *slight* moan that we are running a Scout Camp, we're trying to keep 24 children entertained for 10 days, and the internet signal here is WORSE than dial-up speed (remember those days?) and so the blog really is a bonus. Anyway, end of Skip's moan.
Monday was one of the first days we'd seen some glorious sunshine, and so we took the opportunity to explore some of the local Cornish countryside, donned the hiking boots, packed up lunches and grabbed the OS maps and headed off down the creek. We hiked around the coast line, through the tiny villages of Restronguet and Halwyn, before backing towards ourselves at Mylor Bridge. For those of you on facebook, you may have seen I found a signal to upload a picture of the view around where we were walking. The sun stayed out and during free-time many of the Scouts took the opportunity to walk across and go crabbing around the creek.
Tuesday we woke up and the sun was still glorious, so we took the bull by the horns and jumped on the buses and headed to Kynance Cove. Kynance Cove is probably one of the most beautiful beaches you'd find in the UK, and the long steep descent down i to the cove provides breath-taking scenery. The scouts enjoyed the sun and the sea, and before long the tide was chasing us up the beach, so we had to abandon the ship, climb back up through the cove and head back on the buses. After negotiating the Cornish lanes, we landed back onsite where the scouts either crabbed or played some games, before enjoying the evenings BBQ.
This morning we've once again been awoken by rain. Currently its steady rain, the get-you-wet sort of rain, rather than the torrential all the parents (my mother included!) has been warning us of. We'll see how the day progresses but we'll make do. Today with the weather, we're off in to Truro, the local major town for a bit of shopping theropy and to escape the rain. The rest of the week is a bit of heritage experience, but there will be fun as we're planning on crossing the Giant's Causeway to St Michael's Mount, and visiting Lands End where we're going to be staying for the Magic in the Skies experience.
Oh, and today, is Harry's birthday. Little does he know that we've got a suprise birthday party planned for him, a real kids party with jelly & ice cream, followed by the competition for "Bond Bin Liner" night.
Should be a fun day hopefully, and as Jane would say, fongers crossed for the weather to improve! If for some reason I cant blog again, we're all still on target for the planned return on Saturday at the same time.
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