There’s been nothing but smooth sailing at the Helensburgh Girl Guides with the girls working to achieve their boating trefoil, a skills-based badge.
Badges are an opportunity for the Guides to challenge themselves, learn and excel in a particular area. The Guides started working on this badge with an afternoon canoeing on the Woronora River. With the leaders hoping they’d forgotten last year’s pirating theme, the Girls were naturals, so we had to step it up a notch! The Guides showed off their survival skills, with a worrying amount of enthusiasm as they demonstrated to the leaders how to bring their vessel back to shore after a capsize. Despite the extra washing, sorry Mums and Dads, a dip in the river was definitely what the doctor ordered on this hot Aussie day!
The Guides headed back to the hall to show off their knot-tying skills. Although knots can be tricky, with a bit of concentration the Guides managed to do them with ease. And we discovered early on that, contrary to popular belief, a good knot is one that actually undoes at some point.
We’ll continue to work on this badge over the coming weeks for what has been described as a lightly salted term at the Helensburgh Girl Guides.
We’d like to thank Wayne from All Over Pest Management for donating his pest services to the Girl Guides.
