Travel Bugs

I have given it enough time for anyone to log any miles up until 1st January 2012 and so I now declare that the Cub TB came first, the Scout TB second and the Beaver one in third place. Hopefully they will continue to travel and you can get up date by looking at their pages on Geocaching.com or our new blog.

Travel Bug Race nearing the end

The race is nearly over and the travel bugs have had a busy year.

Some more than others!

Beavers

Cubs

Scouts

Final results will be published as soon as they are available, although the bugs will hopefully continue to travel and enjoy their own Scouting adventure.

Travel bug race

One travel Bug has taken a couple of flights recently and added on the miles...A certain Scout Leader will not be pleased but a Cub one will be delighted!

Travel Bug News

This Bank Holiday has seen news for two of the Travel Bugs we released back in January.

Me on a recently Geocaching trip

The Scout one, which has been static for a long time, has finally moved on and is now in the lead with 2002.5 miles under its belt! Strangely enough it has travelled to the place our Scouts have just come back from - Denmark.

From Google earth

The Beaver one has not put any miles on to the total yet but has been pick up by a Scouter who says "picked up the TB, hope the Beavers are tracking its movements as it's heading east..." so watch this space.

Latest geocaching update

The Scouts are still in the lead, however there has been no movement of their travel bug for a long time now and we await news of its actual where abouts. I wonder what the summer holidays will bring for our travellers?

Have a look at the Geocaching site for more details:

Beavers

Cubs

Scouts

Travel Bug Update - April/May

For those of you tracking their progress

I am a little late in publishing the April Geocaching update! All Travellers have now past the 100 mile mark and the Scouts one is in the lead. I know of one Scout Leader that will particularly pleased at that piece of news.

Barcelona!

Not not me or the Scouts...but the Scout Travel Bug. It is the first one to make it abroad and has been placed in GC200RK Castell de Montjuïc (Barcelona) reload and has made one Scout Leader very happy. It is even a place many of the Scouts may have heard of.

Travel Bug Update - March

For those of you tracking their progress

March saw our Travellers move slightly further afield and all pass the 100 mile mark! One of the Scout Leaders took it into his own hands to help out the Scout one and despite calls of underhand tactics from Akela, this is all fair and above board. Anyone who finds the bug in a cache can move it on, Scout leader or not!

Well done Cubs your traveller is just ahead of the Beavers and Scouts. I wonder what next month will bring, will any of the bugs make it into another country or even abroad?

Recent Travel Bug news

Andrew of 1st Warlingham Beavers in the district of Caterham in Surrey has found our Beaver Travel Bug and has moved it on for us. He goes geocaching with his Mum Erika and his sister Emma.

They took the traveller to several caches before finding one that was suitable to leave it. Erika also very kindly took it to visit Doris's Cross View geocache because the owners, The Biggin Hill Flyers, were Scout Leaders when their children were small. Andrew finally left our traveller in Winter Fun "a greaaaaaat big cache", according to Andrew.

Thank you Andrew for taking an interest in our Travel Bug and for sending us a photo of you with it. One of our own Beavers moved it on and that was brilliant (Thanks Fred), but it is fantastic to see it meet another Beaver from a different colony. I hope you continue to enjoy Beavers , especially all the 25th birthday events this year and carry on to be a Cub and a Scout.

Andrew's mum said he would be happy for us to put his picture on the Blog and so hopefully this has made him smile. Don't forget to show your Leaders Andrew or even leave a comment here to show that you have seen yourself on my Blog.

The other two travellers have also moved on, the Scout one being given a helping hand from one of the Scout Leaders.

Travel Bug update 2

For those of you tracking their progress

The Beaver Travel Bug is racing ahead and has over taken over the lead from the Scout one. It is now in Norfolk, not far from Center Parcs at Elveden Forest. I am looking forward to seeing where they get to next month. I wonder if any will make it to 100 miles or even travel abroad.

Half term

Well I am not sure what you did with your half term, but mine was surprisingly quiet. Not so much so for the rest of the Group! One of our travel Bugs has moved on to Norfolk, taken by one of the Beaver Scouts, and a few planning meetings took place.

The Scout Troop Leaders had another social, but I declined my invite this time and stayed home, they tend to keep late hours and a monkey needs his beauty sleep, don't you know?

A cross selection of the Group Leaders met to discuss the plans for going to The Gambia next year. We are want to visit our twin Group and meet face to face.  I hope that they will take me even though it will no longer be the centenary year.

Plans are in place now for Wales, at Easter, with 20 young people signed up. These include our present day Scouts and a handful of Explorers who used to be at 3rd Ware and are accompanying the Group on this joint expedition.

The new newsletter has been written and will be out next week and the new displays are up at the HQ building; I gave a hand with this. I had a quick look at the centenary collage whilst I was there and really hope that next time I visit The HQ more people will have added their own photograph. Is yours on there? It is for adult and young people.

My last job was to water the flowers at the front of the HQ. We are taking part in Ware in Bloom and so it is important that we all lend a hand when we can. This is the beginning of our project, there is plenty more in the pipeline. Shere Khan and Badger did a stirling job tidying up the compound and pruning the trees and hedges.

Travel Bugs

For those of you who are tracking their progress.

As we near the end of the first month the Scouts are in the lead, followed by the Beavers and then the Cubs. There is still plenty of time for this to change though, why not give your section a helping hand?

*Stop press* -Travel Bugs

Very excitingly all 3 travel bugs have already been picked up and two of them have been moved on, admittly not far, but still very exciting!

Treasure hunting





Yesterday one of the Young Leaders from 3^rd Ware took me on my first Geocaching trip! The idea was to use a GPS device to find hidden treasure (a cache). We did not go too far because we were only looking for the cache that was nearest to our HQ building.

We found it, placed inside it 3 special items, re-hid it and went home.

The three items we placed were travel bugs. These wait in the cache until another Geocacher comes along. Hopefully this new person will collect a 3rd Ware bug and move it to a new cache. If this Geocacher then logs their find on the online site we will be able to follow the progress of these bugs.

Quite a few of our Leaders and young people are Geocachers and so this seemed like another interesting way to celebrate our 100 years.

Today we dropped off one Travel Bug for each age group in our Scout Group. They are attached to the badge that a Cub designed to celebrate our centenary. (I will tell you more about that another time.) I named them:

• 100 Scouting years - 3rd Ware Beavers
• 100 Scouting years - 3rd Ware Cubs
• 100 Scouting years - 3rd Ware Scouts

These travellers want to travel far and wide and meet as many other members of Scouting and Guiding as possible. Who will travel the most and meet the most people in this special centenary year for our Group?

If you are a Geocacher, why not look them up and follow their progress or even try to meet them and help them on their journey. If you are not but, are a member of 3^rd Ware, then you will be able to track their journey at out HQ building.