Ellie and Trinaya Chief Scout Adventurous Journey (Ellie)

Chief Scout Rimu Award Adventurous Journey

by Ellie Beaumont

Maddy's Chief Scout Adventurous Journey

Chief Scout Rimu Award Adventurous Journey

by Maddy Knapp

My camp was a biking camp. We started met at Pukerua Bay scout den when we dropped off our stuff and bikes. My mum drove us to Paekakariki and dropped us off at the Fisherman’s table carpark. We walked back to the Pukerua Bay den along the coastal road.  When we got back to the den we completed our Antarctica badge and conservation badge. After that we cooked dinner, ate dinner and then played Ps and As.

The next day we packed up and biked to the movies in Pauatahanui with Ellie’s group. We watched Kung Fu Panda 4. Then we biked to Ngatitoa scout den. In the afternoon we did badge work and derigged boats and build bivvys. We cooked dinner and slept in the boats.

On the last day we biked to the pirate mini golf in Porirua. We played golf and then we biked back to the den. We packed up and did a review and left.

My reflections…..

Things that went good

• good decision to go to the movies with Ellie’s group as it helped fill in spare time
• we biked good. We stayed together as a group
• organisation of gear and transportation was good
• my camp wasn’t overpacked
• we completed all the badge work we planned to do
• we did everything we planned to do
• meals turned out well
• we were very under budget

Things that didn’t go good

• Over estimated badge work because I scheduled to muchtime
• forgot the meat patties in the freezer in Pukerua Bay scout 

den

• I felt stressed when I was told Mel was coming. I knew I didn’t have enough food for another person and I knew I didn’t have enough money in my bank account for the golf

Next time….

• I would schedule more activitites because we had time for more things.
• I would do more biking
• I would do less time for badge work because I put to much time

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Trinaya and Ellie Chief Scout Adventurous Journey (Trinaya)

Chief Scout Rimu Award Adventurous Journey

by Trinaya Bharath

Day 1

• Ellie & I reached the den at 4:30. That's when the last of the food prep happened. Rummaging through the scout food then biking down to New World to buy something for breakfast the next day. 
• Tara & Maya reached the den. 
• After quick checks of the bike we explained the route. 
• We started in a single file line so we don't lose anyone. Ellie at the front and me at the back. We biked calmly for 25 mins till we were halfway through the Ara Harakeke pathway. By this time it was extremely dark. Ellie didn't have a torch so I went in the front. 
• 5 mins later, I noticed that there were only 3 people. Maya was way behind us. She had stopped and no one noticed.  So I went in the back again, Tara went beside Ellie to provide some light. 
• As we entered Pukerua bay, Maya’s bike started acting up. The pedals were jammed. The rest of us got off our bikes and spent 10 whole mins trying to fix it. We turned it upside down and tried spinning it. Suddenly it just started working again! 
• Soon we reached Pukerua bay den. We met Livvy, Maddie & Ruben there. 
• After getting all our things inside, we sat down together and looked through oceans badge things. Watched videos about deep-sea trawling and questions about how that was bad. E.t.c
• By this time it was 8ish pm. The rest of the night was spent playing cards and chilling

Day 2

• We woke up to maddie’s stunning alarm blaring at 6am.(note the sarcasm)
• At 6 30 was when we actually started getting up. By 7 30 breakfast was finished. 
• During the tidy up, everyone was kinda slacking but since we have a small amount of people, we still got things done quite quickly. 
• Our plan was to start from Puk Bay at 8 and at we were exactly on schedule. I was in the front and livvy was in the back. Every few minutes, i would check to make sure i could see Livvy so we didn't lose anybody.
• Unfortunately parkrun was on at the same time so we had to navigate through a bunch of runners. But I saw my dad!
• We biked calmly without any problems for the next hour until we reached the lighthouse cinema. We were were 45 mins early. We learned that that it only takes and hour to bike to the cinema. In our spare time we were talking and made a stop at the airy to buy snacks for the movie. At 10:15 we were allowed inside so theatre so we went and made ourselves comfy. A couple mins later we saw kirsten’s family and Cath and Amelia.
• The movie was pretty good. Ellie fell asleep near the end. ;p
• The bike ride back was way faster. I think everyone was rejuvenated after the movie.
• We reached the den around 1:40. After 15 mins on relaxing, me, Ellie, Tara & Maya grabbed some gloves, paper bags, a grabber thing and we set off to the beach. For about an hour we walked on the sand picking up all the rubbish we could see. There was a surprisingly large amount of plastic there. We managed to fill up both the bags to the brim. 
• Afterwards, maddie taught some level five biking skill things.
• Now we had a lot of free time. I learned that we should have probably planned a few more things. In the middle we helped the leaders rig/derig boats.
• Then we made dinner and watched another movie. 
• The leaders then called us for a review. 
• We ended up changing some of the plans for 
• As we were about to go to sleep, Derrick came in and started spraying us with red, glitter hairspray. My scalp was sticky and red was 2 WHOLE DAYS after that!

What was hard and what could have been better

• Finding dairy free food. 
• Over-buying food 
• Lots of free time
• Could have done more biking

What went well

• Had all equipment
• Finished oceans badge
• Twas Fun
• Level 5 biking badge

Planning

• Emailing lighthouse cinema - Trinaya
• Oceans Badge - Ellie
• Food - Trinaya & Ellie
• Gear list - Trinaya & Ellie
• Letter - Trinaya & Ellie

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Quinn's awesome adventurous journey

Chief Scout Rimu Award Adventurous Journey

by Quinn Krishnan

On saturday the 1st of july i led 4 scouts including me into the orongorongos with the aim to get to shalimar hut, a private hut owned by one of kim's friends jenny. We were very happy and grateful that she let us use it when walking in. We were happy talking and when we hit the river and got off the track we started listening to music. Then we hit the big river where Derrick and Kym were waiting for us on the other side. They taught us how to cross over properly which everyone felt very insightful. We kept walking to the hut picking up some good firewood. On the way we had to leave some of it at the bottom of the track because it was too big to take up so we would have to come back to saw it up, and get more.

Once we got to the hut we left our packs outside and had some snacks which made everyone happy because they didn't have their packs. We got some saws and went back to find more firewood. And saw it up so that we could bring it up the track. Everyone enjoyed using the saws and when we got back to the hut we left the firewood outside so that we could restock it later. We went inside for the first time, brought our packs in and picked our bed. Which everyone enjoyed as we looked around and found where everything was. We then got the food out and put it on the table. Unfortunately our bag of nacho chips popped so instead of having pasta that night we had nachos which everyone enjoyed. Then we talked about short term thinking, hate, prejudice, and types of conflicts and ways to resolve them in order to get our peace education better world badge. We talked while we toasted some marshmallows and ate some biscuits which people enjoyed. The next day we got up and had weetabix and rice bubbles with peaches and packed our lunch and thermals for the walk. We got our map with the planned route on it and set off into the bush on the track down to the river then walked along until we found the track stopping at the entrance of it to look at Baine Iti the oldest hut in the orongorongos then we walked up there was a lot of steep incline and we decided that we should have taken two packs instead of one so it was a good learning experience. We planned to go up to the top but everyone was hungry when we got to the south saddle so we stopped and ate lunch there. Then it started snowing and we stood there for a couple of minutes with our hands out and our mouths open trying to catch some. When we got there we talked about it and decided not to go to the summit. So we walked back down and found our arrow back to the slightly hidden track through the bush and back to the hut. When we got there derrick had found a piece of wood and Kym had found some axes and saws so derrick taught us how to split wood and once we did that we moved on to sawing up some of our firewood that we found the day before and restocked Jennys firewood reserves to replenish the wood we used. Then we went inside as it started to rain. For a game of scrabble which unfortunately Derrick and Kim won. Then we made dinner which was pasta and I found out that no one in our group likes mixed vegetables. We made too much pasta so I also learnt that I needed to buy smaller portions. After dinner we used a camp oven to make a cake in a cup. The marshmallows that we put into it melted but the actual cake was ok. Then we filmed our domestic violence video and went to bed. 

In the morning we woke up and made our pancake batter than one of us cooked it while the others cleaned up and packed the food into our packs. Once all of the pancakes were all done we took a little break to eat them and they were really good. Then we cleaned the dishes and got back to cleaning the hut. We finished that quickly and left for the tramp back. We walked quickly, beating our time that it took us to get in and less stopping too. We got out and had lunch in the carpark. We then went back to the den, put the saveable food back in the den and went home. All in all I would say it was a successful trip.

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