The weather was generally great for the whole weekend - friday night stayed dry as all the groups arrived. Most of the tents/marquees/equipment had already been set up beforehand so things went pretty smoothly. Groups started arriving from 6pm onwards, and by around 8:30pm everyone was assembled at the campfire circle for the opening ceremony.
Saturday morning saw lots of excited hyperactive cubs and scouts up incredibly early (some at 5am!), playing football and waking up the leaders, although strangely this didn't happen on the sunday morning and they seemed reluctant to get up.
The main camp programme consisted of lots of different activities on saturday and sunday morning/afternoon, as well as an arena show at saturday lunchtime, a bazaar saturday evening and a campfire again on the saturday night. During the weekend groups had the chance to take part in the usual site activities as well as offsite ones (watersports, quad biking, etc) and other one-off bases.
Here's a selection of photos from throughout the weekend, enjoy.
Above : arriving at camp. Bonus point if you can spot Henry!
Above/below : Opening campfire.
Above : Many of the scouts quickly made new friends from other groups.
Above : An eager crowd gather in anticipation of the old donkey story on saturday morning.
Above : groups enjoying the good weather before the arena show
Above : Firemen getting ready to rescue invisible man from crashed car.
Above : Craig leads a team of scavengers to try and salvage some spare parts for his own car after the show.
Above : Bob realises the pitfalls of buying a used car on Ebay.
Above : Aerobics session just about to start up.
Above : Fordell staff busy with popcorn/candyfloss sales.
Above : Gladiator action
Above : One of the more popular bases on the saturday night.
Above : Camp leader John trying out his fantastic new mic stand, as the staff wonder where the bit off their hoover has gone.
Above : Hovercraft looking a bit bruised after some poor drivers/pilots on the saturday.
Above : The mystery of the disappearing popcorn is finally solved.
