Saturday 28th

Some of the Cubs were up and ready fairly early, after a very nice breakfast, cooked by Akela. The Cubs were given their first activity of the day.

The Leaders had been collecting 2-litre plastic drinks bottles and various other bits and pieces. These were handed out to the Cubs and Akela and Hathi were kept busy with cutting and gluing of wings and assorted other parts. The rockets were decorated by the Cubs with coloured tape. This took several hours and was enjoyed by all.

After a short break for refuelling and a drink we all went down to the field to play a few games. Non stop cricket dominated by the batting skills of the Leaders. Just as the Cubs were getting bored with having to run large distances to retrieve the ball from wherever Akela had just smashed it, he was out and a new game of football started. This was popular and several of the Cubs showed an aptitude that might prove useful in the next district event (5-a-side football)

Some hot and thirsty Cubs then trudged up to the hall where Lunch was prepared. This was sandwiches a drink and some fruit. There was little washing up so we were soon ready for the first activity of the afternoon.

In fact we were a little early for the activity and went for a short walk to see the Well and the zip-wire which we would be doing later in the camp. It looked suitably scary.

Back to the Woodcraft area and our instructors were there. The Cubs were given the choice of what they could make; a snail, a spider, an antelope or a hedgehog. All animals involved a certain amount of sawing, drilling, hammering and fitting. None of the Cubs lost any blood despite the sharpness of the tools. All the Cubs managed a creditable artefact to take home to show their parents.

Another break for cake and a drink and down to the main field with the rockets from the morning. Akela had a launch control system board, a compressor, and a launch ramp. The Rockets were placed on the launch ramp, fuelled up with Di-hydrogen monoxide and pressurised by the compressor controlled by the launch control board. When the pressure inside the bottle overcame the friction holding the cork in the bottle the water was expelled  with great force. Due to Newton's second law of movement the rockets rush away at high speed. Luckily some of the Cubs acted as a blast shield and stopped the exhaust getting to any of the Leaders.

The rockets flew well, some of them tumbling and some ascending into the cloudy sky. The down range team were sent out to retrieve the empty rockets. Some of them were able to catch the rockets as they came back to earth.

After a rather nice tea we had our penultimate activity at the climbing tower. The Cubs were put into harnesses and checked. They then queued for the climb up the tower, some of them the smaller ones were given a helping haul up by the instructor on the safety line. At the top the Cubs were attached to a safety rope walked across the top and were attached to a safety rope and allowed/persuaded to abseil down the other side of the tower. Despite having to queue and a lengthy wait for each Cub to complete before the next one could start, they were very well behaved.

It was starting to get quite dark and cold by the time the last Cub had been lowered off the tower and we returned to the Hall for a warm up and something to eat.

Then to round off the day the Cubs were let loose in the "Monkey Paradise" This was the venue for one of our previous camps for all the Cubs to get so muddy that we could not recognise them. The Cubs enjoyed the mud slide that they found and using boards as sledges achieved some impressive speeds, a particularly unpleasant mud found at the bottom of the slope. The Leaders watched and waited for the cracking of bones but none happened, this we considered to be a bonus.

After a thorough cleaning that involved rather a lot of shrieking from the Boys and Girls as they found out that the showers were not as warm as they had hoped. Then finally they were ready for bed.

Hooray. By 00:30 all was quiet and the Leaders went to there pits in the knowledge that tomorrow was going to be a long day.