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Eleven scouts, one young leader and three leaders ventured into the boggy realms of the New Forest for a wet weekend of swamp-based activities with the forecast predicting 40mph winds, heavy sleet and rain!! Fortunately Friday night was dry and beautifully clear so we setup the camp, cooked over a roaring fire and played a wide-game.

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After a cooked breakfast on Saturday morning, the scouts split into three groups to make their own swamp-crossing using whatever means they wished. The groups came up with three ingeniously different courses using a combination of rope bridges, tree climbing, pole walking and jumping!

In the afternoon, we split into two groups and went on a 17 mile bike ride through the forest.

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Rain, rain, rain! After swimming out of our tents on Sunday morning, we saw the field had really turned into a swamp! Naturally some scouts decided that puddle jumping would be fun – add to this a 15ft hole trench backfilled with clay and you can guess what happened next – “Ed(gar), Finn’s stuck in the mud!”

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One cooked breakfast later and we were ready for our final activity – making an alter-fire out of sticks and mud so that we could cook our pitta-pizzas and burgers!

All in all, it was another great camp!

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