WAILUA — The (Cub) Scouting experience around the world can be quite exciting and stimulating, as over 60 Cub Scouts from around the island converged at Lydgate Park for their annual Cub Scout Day Camp. With the park’s main pavilion
WAILUA — The (Cub) Scouting experience around the world can be quite exciting and stimulating, as over 60 Cub Scouts from around the island converged at Lydgate Park for their annual Cub Scout Day Camp.
With the park’s main pavilion serving as the headquarters, activity stations fanned out around the park, with each activity station being themed after a country, and the activities geared towards learning more about that country and its culture.
In one area of the lawn, a group of Cub Scouts were exploring the ancient art of jousting, as a pair of Cubs equipped with special boxing gloved toggle sticks and protected helmets charged each other with the goal of either trying to knock each other off their (invisible) horses, or force the jouster out of bounds, the boundary indicated by a very visible orange rope.
More unofficial jousting was taking place at the hula hoop station, where Cub Scouts would wind up their hula hoops and move closer and closer to each other, with the intention of knocking each other’s hoop to the ground.
Jim Rosa was leading a unit on bicycle maintenance and safety, with a lot of actual material on hand so Cub Scouts could get a hands-on experience rather than just listening to a lecture.
More innovative items included creating a top using a discarded CD and a couple of pieces of hardware. Just leave it to the Cub Scouts to figure out how to make a competitive event out of that and, of course, there was swimming, as Cub Scout volunteer Calvin Paleka puffed his way back to the pavilion with his group.
Kapa‘a High School Interact Club members were also visible throughout the encampment, many of them being group leaders who held up their “adopted” country and animal banner as their pack engaged in the activity of their visited station.
April Arzadon worked with Jolly Iwata to head up this year’s event, with Boy Scout Brad Sato of Troop 133 serving as “the whistle blower.”
