Newspaper PAGGS 2006, #9

by Eddie Porteous on 2006-08-09 20:09:21

Happy day. DRY.  At 10 am start the activities. There are again 3 wateractivities on and at the Veluwe lake. Sailing in dutch scouting boats, called Lelyvlet. IA iron boat can contain 6 persons. That happens at the Scouting watercentre Harderhaven at the otherside of the diike atthe Flevopolder. side of the lake.  Here is also the trainingcentre to get sailing lessons from scouting  At another part of the lake starts the canoeing  in Indiana canoes. 3 persons can row it.  the canoing takes about 2 hours to  the yachtharbour called Horst along the beach. Back is canoing a different group. That group has very hard work, because the wind is very hard from the front.  In the afternoon some very dark clouds cover the Veluwe lake, and produces some short showers. 3 other groups are pioneering rafts of poles an drums. Good skill of knots are needed to make the rafts strong. Some scouts need more training in knots and pioneering really   Home work to do The rafts do work good on the water. The temperature of the water high about 23  o. 

On the Land  there is cycling and stepping/scootering in the nice surroundings of the campsite. Holland is known for his special cycle paths in the nature, and also in the towns. There are hundreds of cycle routes on the Veluwe.  It is safe to cycle in Holland.  Menu. Rice with meat in curry sauce. and vegetables  Introduced from the Indies in the Golden Age.  Desert  today is ...icecream.  Jam, jam.  In the evening starts at 9 pm the big campfire performance. All 280 campers fit around the circle with fire. A team of 3 netherlands scouting men dressed in gold costums and 2 gitars are leading the performance exellent with songs, yells, acts, sketches, helped by PAGGS participants from the different countries. Every country has a sketch/act. A very funny good act is of Denmark. 10 people in a row telling with word and body language  what  they would do, when they were in Holland.  It is the very funny way they perfom it. Big laugh and applause. After a drink an dutch ontbijtkoek  (brown ginger cake) back to the subcamps.  Sleeping?????????????????


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