The Hopeful Muffin

The 49ers. (unit group e2049) built their raft today. They named it the Hopeful Muffin And it withstood all the activities!!!

Their design even got some great praises from other leaders!! We went with a classic triangle design.

During the sponge fight, our scouts joined forces with a troop from Edmonton!! They kicked Bottom!









So strong, Liam can stand on it!




The boat by the end of it's epic voyage.

- Scouter Marc/Akela

Location:Duncan Bay Rd,Garden Bay,Canada

Opening ceremony

He we are with 3200 other scouts!!!












- Scouter Marc/Akela

Location:Lower Rd,Roberts Creek,Canada

We have arrived at PJ!!!

We arrived to our home for the week. Camp Byng, Gibson BC.
 Our scouts are quite overwhelmed at the amount of people that are here.

Our ferry ride and treck to camp was a challenge for the groups patience.
We are all ready to go to bed.. but.. we have to wait for the gear to arrive.


- Scouter Marc/Akela

A bit of free time.

After our Canoe ride. We took full advantage of our afternoon. Half of the group went back to camp to rest and play. We also took the time to air out our sleeping bags and clean up the site.

The other half went out with Scouter Terry for some salmon fishing in Tofino. It was quite tough. The wind was very strong. Sadly we caught nothing. We will try again tomorrow.

- Scouter Marc/Akela

Location:Mackenzie Beach Rd,Tofino,Canada

Stroke!! Stroke!!!!! STROKE!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday, we had the luck to canoe in two aboriginal canoes. The smaller canoe held six people and the larger one held 10 people. Our guide was from the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation. The 16 scouts that went in the canoes paddled out to Meares island. The other 11 received a motor boat ride to the island. When we arrived at the island we unloaded the canoes and started on a hike through the forest on Meares island. We saw some huge trees and some banana slugs. We stopped near the shore to eat lunch and then we headed back. For the way back, we switched the paddlers and the riders. The wind started to pick up and the arrival at shore was delayed. The riders arrived there first. Both of the canoes had to towed back to shore because of the waves. Once everybody was at the shore, half of the group went fishing and the other half headed back to the campsite to relax.


- Zac

Location:Tofino, BC

Hello Pacific!!

We are camping at Long beach.

Simply beautiful.



The view 5 minutes from our campsite.




Scouter Paul checking out the sludge.



Liam and Devon enjoying the view.

- Scouter Marc/Akela

Location:Pacific Rim Hwy,Alberni-Clayoquot C,Canada

Jiggers, Fish and Chips

Yummm....
Today we had lunch at a restaurant called Jiggers, the restaurant is actually in a truck. It had amazing fish and fries. The fish, halibut was fresh and caught this mourning. There was also some food that you could buy at any restaurant, like hamburgers and pogo. Also there was an excuse of poutine.

There was also a crazy statue right outside the restaurant. I think that Alex and Jeremy really liked the statue.


Here is a picture of the fish and chips.

- Will

Location:Rainforest Dr,Ucluelet,Canada

Zipping through!

It was awesome we saw like a huge tree and then we went through a huge canyon the water was white we even went from platform to platform then on our way to long beach we saw a bear that was huge then a mean biker came by and spazed at is cuz we stoped in the middle of the road and as I write we are going on to a boat to make a commercial. -mitch

Location:Ferry Ramp,Ucluelet,Canada

End of a big day!

We had a big day. And big days deserve big fires. YEAH!!! WOO!!! ...well, no fire tomorrow. Look's like we burned all the wood. BURN BABY BURN!!!!

-Devon



Scouter Ted kept asking for more wood on the fire.

Under and over!!

Our morning started with a cave tour!! The group adventured under two different caves. We saw underground waterfalls, stalagmites and stalagtights made of calcium and we almost got stuck in some of the caves.
- Parker


Our afternoon was spent climbing down some pretty steep cliffs. Everyone had fun defying gravity. It was freaky to hold your own weight in a rope and hoist yourself down. We took some great shots, with our better cameras.
-Scouter Akela

We went down into the ground all us nervous nellies did a great job climbing around in the wet caves and no one touched the calsites that Shane told us to avoid. Quick lunch and then off to conquer more rocks, it was pretty cool. Everyone made it to the edge and most to the bottom! I made it with a slight disagreement with the rock LOL all I can say is there will be bruises! A great start to the grand adventure!

-Danica.

Cliff 1 / Scott 0 mp
-Nathan

Location:Horne Lake Rd,Bowser,Canada