Traffic ETA 16:43

Traffic… Eta 16:43…

Traffic Update

Looking more like a 16.30 arrival due to heavy traffic on the M6

Camp cleared :(

All tidied up and ready to go..

Making it ourselves

It’s STILL raining!

With all the holiday-makers in town, unfortunately the bowling alley was fully booked until the evening, so we had to revert to Plan C!

We split them into three groups and set about making our dinner – homemade burgers followed by muffins and cookies. As you can imagine, the kitchen will take some tidying!

Its lucky we hired the hall too, as it gave us the option of putting on something to entertain the masses when it was absolutely rinsing it down!

Rainy last day

It’s a rainy start to our last day, which should make packing up more interesting…!

Sadly the rain has put paid to our plans of going up on the Hi Flyer – a massive tethered hot air balloon that goes 300m into the air – as it’s at risk of being struck by lightning?!

Instead it’s arcades and a final shop, probably followed by bowling. Hope the rain stops soon!

Shooting / Coasteering

Booo. There are dull grey skies and it’s switching between heavy rain and just looking threatening to rain

We had heavy rain last night too, which curtailed our campfire somewhat, but everyone was dry overnight, and today is another BUMPER day: we’ve split into two groups, with half a day on-site playing with rifles (under supervision, obviously, and with the chance to win a KitKat chunky for hitting the Bullseye!), whilst the other group are busy jumping off rocks into the sea!

Here’s pics of a few of our sharp-shooters..!

Street Dance Videos

Judge these efforts for yourself. The dance teacher reckoned that Badworthy’s effort (also featuring explorer Richard Cross) was best, which has won them 10 points towards the patrol competition!

And you thought they couldn’t dance….!

Street Dance: The Final

The Scouts have been getting their freak on again! The video’s of all five groups’ efforts will follow (once we find a decent enough Internet connection)!

Homemade Pizza went down well, and the Scouts are currently out in the town, possibly buying you some ‘great’ presents…!

Kit inspection

The scouts’ efforts for kit inspection – not quite the military precision we were hoping for, but at least they seemed vaguely organized?!

And it’s a tearful train station farewell to Hoggy – have fun at Leeds Fest! The scouts are already missing your right-arm medium-fast swing bowling!?

Merry Woodmas!

It’s Woodmas Day on site in Torbay! Father Woodmas has delivered his traditional bundles of firewood, and the Scouts have been celebrating by eating Woodmas for breakfast!

Here’s our VIP patrol (the team who scored the most points yesterday) enjoying their ‘lucky-dip’ prize of a lie-in and breakfast cooked for them by the Leaders.

The Dance-off will take place at 2pm, and then we’re heading to the beach for a barbecue.