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Sea Scouts - The Master Mariners' Competition 2008
Another of our children was reinvested at 1st Fremantle Sea Scouts last night. This time its been our teenage daughter number two. She's now a fully fledged Venturer.
This is not her first time with Scouts. At one stage she was a Cub Scout, but the group she was with ran out of steam. There's no chance of that with this latest lot. The Venturers do plenty of adventurous stuff like rock climbing, orienteering, kayaking and sloshing in mud. It's all go. Another good thing for us parents is that our second eldest son went through all the Scouting levels to Rovers and then became too old for becoming anything except taking out his warrant to become a group leader. So he become one of the Venturers leaders. That also translates as chief transporter for our daughter. Perfect. She's always been one for an adventure. Here's a picture of her taken after sloshing in some mud in 1993:
Even though older kids do the occasional chauffeuring we parents still have to do a bit of running about. This weekend is set aside for the annual Master Mariners' competition. It's a two day event overseen by a group of real master mariners and our youngest son who is a Sea Scout is a competitor.
It's a two day competition against other groups to determine which is the most skilled in nautical arts like boat handling, chart reading, navigation, knot tying and so on. It's conducted at the Pelican Point Sea Scout facility which is located on the northern side of the Swan River. We have to drop our son off by 8am, and then collect him again this evening. Then someone has to repeat the process again tomorrow.
In the weeks leading up to the event there's some pretty serious training goes on. During the last school holidays the East Fremantle group where our kids hang out conducted a week long intensive training camp during which our son slept under canvas on the river side. These are his halcyon days.
Here's photo flashback to 1992, our eldest boys halcyon days when they were practising on the Swan River for the Master Mariners' Competition. Looking at our old photos makes me realise how worthwhile the effort has been
© MMVIII Paul R. Weaver.
Click here to visit 'dogandcatwatcher', my YouTube website.
Original still photographs are stored online in a cache at my Panoramio website or my Picasa site. Most of them have a brief description and a link back to a relevant essay. Images on Panoramio can usually be enlarged several times by clicking them.
About the writer
Click here to see our backyard.
Check out each month's subject index on the Calendar Page for my "common-man" monologues about survival in 21st century Australia – plus a little history occasionally. An original essay is added most days as part of an undertaking to write at least couple of million words. Zzzzzzzz!
Another of our children was reinvested at 1st Fremantle Sea Scouts last night. This time its been our teenage daughter number two. She's now a fully fledged Venturer.
This is not her first time with Scouts. At one stage she was a Cub Scout, but the group she was with ran out of steam. There's no chance of that with this latest lot. The Venturers do plenty of adventurous stuff like rock climbing, orienteering, kayaking and sloshing in mud. It's all go. Another good thing for us parents is that our second eldest son went through all the Scouting levels to Rovers and then became too old for becoming anything except taking out his warrant to become a group leader. So he become one of the Venturers leaders. That also translates as chief transporter for our daughter. Perfect. She's always been one for an adventure. Here's a picture of her taken after sloshing in some mud in 1993:
Even though older kids do the occasional chauffeuring we parents still have to do a bit of running about. This weekend is set aside for the annual Master Mariners' competition. It's a two day event overseen by a group of real master mariners and our youngest son who is a Sea Scout is a competitor.
It's a two day competition against other groups to determine which is the most skilled in nautical arts like boat handling, chart reading, navigation, knot tying and so on. It's conducted at the Pelican Point Sea Scout facility which is located on the northern side of the Swan River. We have to drop our son off by 8am, and then collect him again this evening. Then someone has to repeat the process again tomorrow.
In the weeks leading up to the event there's some pretty serious training goes on. During the last school holidays the East Fremantle group where our kids hang out conducted a week long intensive training camp during which our son slept under canvas on the river side. These are his halcyon days.
Here's photo flashback to 1992, our eldest boys halcyon days when they were practising on the Swan River for the Master Mariners' Competition. Looking at our old photos makes me realise how worthwhile the effort has been
© MMVIII Paul R. Weaver.
Click here to visit 'dogandcatwatcher', my YouTube website.
Original still photographs are stored online in a cache at my Panoramio website or my Picasa site. Most of them have a brief description and a link back to a relevant essay. Images on Panoramio can usually be enlarged several times by clicking them.
About the writer
Click here to see our backyard.
Check out each month's subject index on the Calendar Page for my "common-man" monologues about survival in 21st century Australia – plus a little history occasionally. An original essay is added most days as part of an undertaking to write at least couple of million words. Zzzzzzzz!
