Written by Roddyne (Falcons Patrol) for part of his Writers Badge

On March 11th this year I went on a Scout Camp to the Beach Club in Azabia Muscat, my first Scout Camp.

When I was thinking whether I should go or not I never thought it would be so much fun...




Off course I was nervous to be going to the camp and I thought it might be a bit boring. I had had a camp away with school and was a bit homesick but I just thought ‘why not try it again’. Boy was I glad I did I could not have been more wrong.

During the camp I took part in a lot of activities. I don’t think I can actually name all the activities but I will name a few of them. Raft building, pioneering, kite making, sports, obstacle courses and a treasure hunt. One of the best activities was the camp fires, when Skip (our leader) read us a camp fire story. An unusual scary story about purple gorillas and skeleton ladies, when the lady eats herself for food!

The Raft building, we had to do in teams working together. We were told the better we worked together the better the raft. Our team took longer than some of the others but when our raft didn’t fall apart we knew we had done a good job. Pioneering was a great deal harder. We had to use the knots and lashing we had learned to build an hour glass out of planks of wood and lots of rope. Eventually we finished and even though it leant a little to the right it stood taller than the other teams.

On the second day my team did the kite making. It was easy enough to make the kite and decorate but it was difficult to get it up in the sky as we could not get the string out quickly enough.

Over the weekend we had lots of different sports activities including volleyball, football and rugby. My favourite was definitely the obstacle course. It did involve water bombs, which is probably why. There were five different challenges, climbing frame, tower climbing, bridge walking and sweet dipping. This meant dipping your head in a bowl of flour to retrieve a polo mint (very messy). The final challenge was water bombs, which doesn’t need much explaining.

At the entertainment night we did a talk on bullying, I didn’t like the way we did our piece because I think the others were funnier. So next time I think I would try and have more input.

One of the things I was worried about was the food which turned out to be very tasty. We had noodles, sweet corn and burgers, the best thing was we were allowed to drink as much tea as we wanted (and I love tea).

When it was time to go home we had to pack the tents up, get dressed in full uniform before the parents arrived. It was all over very quickly! To wrap it all up it was one of the best camps I had ever been on. Good food, good games, cool stories and for future reference I will go on the next camp for sure.