On a beautifully sunny evening in July, the Cubs embarked on their hike along the river Itchen.

We met at Eastleigh station and travelled by train to Shawford.  The guard was great – she waited until everyone was counted on the platform, before the train left!  We walked along the river path all the way back to Eastleigh.  We chatted as we walked along, enjoying each other’s company.  We saw lots of wildlife and horses and the cubs particularly enjoyed watching the current, reeds and fish in the river, from various bridges we crossed along the way. Everyone enjoyed themselves and the cubs even had enough energy to play in the playground at the Hub when we got back!  Our thanks to all the adults who helped out  – it was a truly successful trip.  Hopefully we can do it again next year!

Next year I hope to take a contingent of Eastleigh Explorers with the Gloucestershire Scouts to Holland .

The application and information is shown below.   Places at the camp must be prebooked and Gloucestershire have obtained 75 places for young people.

These will go reasonably quickly so even though the closing date is October expect places to be issued on a first come first served basis – Get your applications in quickly before you go on Summer Holiday would be my recommendation

Please note Cheques Payable to Gloucestershire Scouts

Phil

On arrival at Longleat we joined the rest of the 4500 youngsters and Leaders from across Hampshire as we drove past a long line of cars and much to the drivers dismay and entered the park. Eastleigh were due to travel through the Safari park in the first batch of coaches. The animals had been given an early morning call to ensure we could see them.

After the Safari the rest of the day was ours, except to be on the lawn in front of the house for the Beaver Tail Slap and the Cubs Grand Howl. How do you stop a Mexican Wave? You can’t. The County Commissioner thought it would be a good idea to start one and was then left after the 6th time round of trying to stop it. It included all the boys and girls taking their hats off and throwing them in the air!!!

After a long day we boarded the coaches and headed back – much quieter on the coach this time though. I wonder why?

It was a good successful day – very very hot. Never seen so many water bottles being refilled.

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