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15 Explorer Scouts and four leaders spent their summer camp this year at Hounsodde Scout Camp in Denmark, on their first ever camp abroad. The idea for the camp came after we met a group of Danish Scouts last year and they invited us over. We flew out of Stanstead with Ryan Air and arrived at the camp by 4pm but were then faced with a 2km walk with all our kit, as the camp was very isolated out on a spit of land in the Baltic. It was always our intention to cook all our meals on open fires, since they do not use gas over there but we didn’t realise just how basic it was going to be and credit goes to our GSL Peter Cheney for managing to feed 19 people 3 times a day for the week – especially when we couldn’t even work out the names of the food we were eating! Baked beans are unheard of, and we were not prepared for the amount of mosquitoes we encountered. Counting the bites each morning became a camp fascination, with some of the Explorers getting up to 180 by the end of the week!

The Explorers took part in a wide range of activities such as Canoeing, Kayaking, Swimming and Sailing (since we were surrounded by water), as well as Archery, Viking Axe Throwing, Orienteering, Prehistoric Crafts, and we even had to build our own fun fair from wooden poles and rope!
The Unit were fantastic ambassadors, joining in with Danish and German Scouts and made very good friends, with a few tearful eyes when we left. Six of the Unit were invested while we were over there, and not many Explorers can say that they were invested in the middle of a Danish Scout camp surrounded by mosquitoes!