Sunday 12 February

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Beenleigh Scout Troops Hike Venman Bushland National Park to Daisy Hill Conservation Park. 

Here are the Beenleigh Scouts ready to start their hike. 
All keen and eager.  This should not last long!!

WOW what a Day!!!!!.  Hathi may need some time to recover.  Not sure about Redback.
The scouts were dropped off by their parents at Venman Bushland Bushland Park at 8:00 am.  After ensuring that we had everyone for the hike then it was down to the pointy end of the hike.  Deciding which way to hike.  Each patrol leader was shown a map with three planned courses that the troop could take.  They then took this information back to their patrol to get consenses on which tack they wanted to take.  The four Patrol leaders then reported back on their decision.  They had all managed all to choose the same course which was the longest, but had about quarter of the hike outside the national and conservation park.  Of the two hikes remaining the four patrol leaders managed to agree to pick another course which was the one that was planned.  this was the shorter of the three but as it turned out was the most hilly of the three.  The patrols were to take it in turn to provide the navigation for the hike.  This included the compass bearing and also the measurement of the distance.  

Not sure where go-anna was off to but a
number of the scouts neede to make a pit stop
before starting the hike.




Looks like estimation will have to be on the scouts agenda for a program as it seems that they had forgotten from last year how far their walking pace took them. 
Kyle I do not really think that your normal walking pace was 1 m.  It was more like 0.5 m.  Once we sorted this out then they were able to get a little closer to the points.
To those Scouts that took part in the hike there will be a quiz coming your way.  The Scout to get the most answers correct will earn themselves a reward for doing so.
Unfortunately not one of the was able to find a koala before we reached the Koala Centre.  There was a prize up for offer.  About the only animals that the scouts saw were a gonna, crows, and a wallaby.



Pre morning Tea Stop

 
At about 9:30 am the scouts decided to have a pre morning tea stop.  They had less than 1 km to go before the stop for morning tea and it was mostly down hill from this point. 


Morning tea Stop. 


The morning tea stop was at the gate between the National Park and reserve pictured in the sign.  At this point it had taken the scouts  1.5 hours to negociate about 3.5 to 4 km.  There was still about 5 km to go with a lunch break and a couple of activities to complete in between.








Parade at the Lunch Stop

  Arriving at the lunch stop gave the scouts and opertunity to complete some badge work.

They were split into two groups an asked to build a chair.  The only stipulation they were given was that the need to use a minimum of 4 staves.

One group made a great chair that then had a flagpole attached to it for a parade at the side of an old quarry.



Those that made it to the end.  Think that was all of them.


We did make it to our final  destination even after the efforts of the four patrols in trying to get us all lost!!  We have a little work to do on estimation.

After completing the hike the scouts took to the koala centre. 

We left just in time for a storm to arrive.


Hathi
p.s.     Await further pictures.  The quiz will come shortly to those that went on the hike.