Today was the annual Adelaide Foothills District Cub Pinewood Derby.
While Scouting person and I didn’t get to the whole event, Golden Grove Cubs placed 1st and 3rd overall in the event. This follows last year, when a Golden Grove Cub also took 1st place. Interestingly enough, this year’s 1st place is friends with last year’s 1st place winner.
All who took part enjoyed their day.
Today, a small but determined team participated in this year’s NavFest: Beach. This year, the starting point was at Point Malcom, Semaphore Park.
The team took part in some navigation and map planning activities before sitting down to plan their route. Deciding on team name provide to be challenging.
Eventually it was sorted (We are Here For The Ice Cream) and so was the planned route.
We headed off, but unlike others, the cubs did not run, and we think that was a bit of a relief. It ensured we were able to stay as a group from the get go.
Over the course of 2 hours, the group covered a distance of 7 ½ km, which included a stop for ice cream.
Once again, the team came in about the middle of the field, with a score of 460 points. Not a bad effort and certainly continually improving on the points gained, as well as improvement in their map reading skills. This alone makes doing NavFest a worthwhile activity and we are looking forward to doing it again next year.
This evening, I joined the several members of Golden Grove Cubs, Scouts, and adults to watch Adelaide Gang Show.
Adelaide Gang Show visited the Cubs a few weeks ago, and ran a promotional event, to show what Adelaide Gang Show does.
As a result of this visit, our Cubs were offered an opportunity to do a pre tour, behind the scenes visit before the show. It was certainly something quite a few took up, and included several parents attending as well to have a look.
The pre tour was awesome and all who attended really enjoyed it.
From there, it was time to watch the show and it was a great crowd, with it being almost a sellout. Certainly, a show worth seeing and glad we were able to take the youth members.
