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Day Nine - The School O' Fartz Day Ten - The Closing Ceremony |
On the last official day of the Venture, the intrepid leader chose to go off site and go sailing on Lake Burley Griffin. It was a fantastic day even made more enjoyable by the hospitality of the LBG Scouts. After tea it was time to unwind and say good-bye to all the friends we had made at the Closing Ceremony and the festivities afterwards. What actually happened that night is best left up to the imagination but at least I got some sleep.
Back at Cottermouth, the Venturers had been hard at work
doing, um, er something. I know, they were building a
plaster Venturer. Parts of the body, arms, legs and hands lie in the sun to
dry. The 'Artists' have a well earned break in the
shade. Right next door to the 'School O' Fartz' was 'Hair Today,
Gone Tomorrow'. I can't begin to tell you what went on in
there. But this will give you a small idea. The story goes that
they needed a hairless head mould for their plaster Venturer
and as none of the girls would be in it, Matthew
volunteered. Meanwhile, back in school, slogans were the order of the
day. I'm not sure what this guy was checking off - bands that
he was going to see perhaps? Apart from checklists, other things which were painted on
bodies were Anti War slogans. At the time, Australia had
just committed troops to support the U.S. in it's fight
against Saddam Hussein in the Middle East. Once dry, the
slogans were covered in clothes and a trip to GO! was
organised to get on a bus into Canberra to see Questacon or
the like. Trouble was, Questacon is just a slashing cover
drive from the lawns of Parliament House so a game of
cricket was called for. Of course, like any Aussie male, you
couldn't go to the cricket with your shirt on so with
slogans proudly displayed our enterprising Venturers
strutted their stuff playing cricket on the lawns of
Parliament House until they were ordered off by the Federal
Police - several times. The crown mills awaiting the start of the Closing
Ceremony. Members of the National Youth Forum read out their
recommendations to the National Executive Committee for all
to hear. There was particular emphasis on the retention of
the current uniform which was re-inforced by those on stage.
The tall lad is the plaster Venturer referred to a couple of
pages back who finally made it in one piece. The Camp Chief of AV12 handing over the charge of the
Venture to the Camp Chief of AV13 to be held at Cataract
Park, NSW in January 2006. The Extremely Fishy leaders - Colin Peake, 'Ronnie'
Jones, Steve Burns and Rob Burke.
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AV13 - The 2006 Venture - Cataract Scout Park NSW.
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