On Saturday the 5th of August 2006 Captain Musick Air Scouts went to Waiheke Island and camped at the Waiheke Island sea scouts boat (den) to celebrate the 99th year of scouting. We arrived at the half moon bay marina at 9:30 to depart on the ferry to go to Waiheke Island. Just under an hour later we arrived on Waiheke Island. We were going to row to the canoe back to the scout den but the wind was too strong, so instead we took a shuttle there (if you don’t know what a shuttle is it is a van).

Once we arrived, we went for a look around and played with crabs on the beach. When we got back we played a few games and peeled a few potatoes.

Later on we went on a crab hunt for a prize (a lot, it was 70 cents).

Once the Waiheke Sea Scout leader arrived, we got the boat out and rowed to the moorings and back twice then put the boat away, and then we played a few games like sumo wrestling.

For dinner we had chicken nuggets and soup, for supper we had apple pie.

After dinner we had a campfire, we kept to the captain music air scouts tradition by pouring 10 years worth of campfire ashes on the fire. We had a lot of fun cooking marshmallows and then sticking them onto a biscuit. After a long while playing on the beach near the campfire, we went inside and Phill collected up the ashes so that now the ashes are 11 years of campfire ashes.

Finally after a fun day we went to bed, we went quite early because we had a big day the next day. I personally didn’t get much sleep as there was a front in the bay and some of the window panels were missing.

In the morning we were packing up our stretchers and bags quite early so that we could leave fast when we return from stoney batter.

Breakfast was very nice, bacon and eggs. Off from the den and to stoney batter.

When we arrived we waited a bit for the instructor to arrive. When the instructor arrived she let us into the museum and showed us a lot of stuff like the gun shells, around 3 feet tall. When we finally went into stoney batter we were amazed at the tunnels how they were about 2.5 meters round in the smallest parts and that it was all dug by hand, wow!!!

Finally we exited the amazing war trenches and headed back to the scout den to go on the ferry.

By Callum Armstrong