As can be seen with some of the photos from a recent camp which 1st Dubbo Scout Troop went on at our own local campsite call Minnemurra.

It takes team work and some fun to firstly set up camp. Being a Scout it is integral to work with your patrol, this helps ensure you have the most fun and get to do some amazing things while learning skills for life.

The Eagle Patrol can be seen working together with their bush stretcher, learning first aid skills and what can be done with limited items. You do get to work on your own as well like young Bejay and his bushcraft basin holder. The smile says it all really.

Being a Scout means you learn lifelong skills not just for yourself but in helping others as well. If you wish to eat you take your turn in helping prepare, cook and serve all meals on a camp, this can be seen with the patrols preparing dinner in the rain, breakfast time preparation and serving the evening meal.

After all the hard work, Scouts is like one big community, family even when you get to come together and share your stories, your differences and your commonalities such as enjoying the evening meal and Scouts of the Long Table. We get to have our meals in all sorts of wonderful places, around a fire, on a hill, in the bush, it’s up to your imagination.

There are always plenty of activities and adventure to suite most everyone, sometimes its just a simple a morning hike which can take you all sorts of places, even to see views from the top. Scouts to like to mix it up though with a little adventure, not forgetting the integral value of a little adventure teamwork.

This is just a quick snapshot of one weekend in Scouting, imagine what you could achieve over years in the movement were it is Youth Led, Adult Supported.