Port Neptune

Port Neptune Regatta cancelled

Webmaster — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:49:18 +0000

Regrettably the Port Neptune regatta had to be cancelled for this year. Please check back next year.
2nd Abbotsford Scouts

Pictures ANZAC day parade

Webmaster — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:18:08 +0000

Anzac day parade Five Dock 2010 1

Anzac day parade Five Dock 2010 2

Anzac day parade Five Dock 2010 3

Anzac day parade Five Dock 2010 4

Pictures from August sailing day

Webmaster — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:54:08 +0000

Sailing day August 2010 1

Sailing day August 2010 2

Sailing Day August 2010 3

Sailing Day August 2010 4

Sailing Day August 2010 6

Sailing Day August 2010 7

PORT NEPTUNE REGATTA IS COMING

Webmaster — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:03:00 +0000

Get ready for the 60th Port Neptune regatta!!

The 60th Annual Port Neptune regatta will take place on 17 – 19 September. For all the details and information please download the leaflet

Tax time

Webmaster — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:45:46 +0000

Please remember that 2nd Abbotsford Sea Scout Group is a tax deductible organisation. For your donation please contact our treasurer

Willem

Finally your new webmaster has managed to get in

Webmaster — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:33:23 +0000

Hi I am Willem,

My son Seb is in scouts. Apologies for taking so long, but I finally managed to understand this program and can now start changing the website. If you have any newsworthy articles, please let me know and I will post these articles.

Watch the new Chief Scout on TV : Man vs Wild (SBS)

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:01:35 +0000

Chief Scout Bear Grylls with Scouts

On 18th May 2009, The Scout Association announced Bear Gryllsâ€™ appointment as the tenth and youngest Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas Territories. Bear is one of the UKâ€™s great outdoor adventurers; he is also a strong supporter of young people as seen via his work with international childrenâ€™s charity, Global Angels. As Chief Scout, a position he will hold for five years, Bear will be the volunteer Leader of the largest co-educational youth Movement in the country: Scouting has around half a million Members including some 90,000 adult Leaders. – Announcement on World Scouts website

Here in Australia you can see Bear Grylls on TV – Monday nights on SBS his survival show ‘Man vs Wild’ is shown at 8:35pm. Online you can follow his exploits on Twitter, his blog or at http://www.beargrylls.com/. What an amazing example Bear is setting for people young and old everywhere!

AJ2010 gear arrived, shakedown camp over

admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:33:34 +0000

Tonight our Scouts returned from their Jamboree shakedown camp on the official site at Cataract. Challenge Valley was “a lot of fun” and very muddy – just the way we like it (unless you’re washing the clothes afterwards!)
As a bonus, after packing away the camping gear, the official AJ2010 gear was distributed to the scouts. Scarf, badges, water bottle, daypack and main bag. Someone’s sense of humour evident in the ‘Mayhem’ printed on the boxes.

Meet Sue-Anne Webster, Australia’s Leading Lady of Magic and a proud Queen’s Scout!

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:14:23 +0000

Sue-Anne Webster

â€œScouting toughens you up. Scouting teaches you not to whinge and give up when things get tough, but to find a way to survive and succeed.â€ – Sue-Anne Webster

Sue-Anne Webster is recognised throughout the world as Australiaâ€™s top female magician. Not only is she a performer, she’s also a lecturer, inventor, illustrator, authorâ€¦ and a proud Queenâ€™s Scout!

Sue-Anne is one of only two living Australian Magicians to be internationally recognised in the Dictionnaire de la Prestidigitation – the definitive history book of magic spanning the centuries – alongside Harry Houdini, David Copperfield, Orson Welles and Siegfried & Roy.

Read the full story at Scouts Australia

Scout outing: The Sydney Observatory

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:57:44 +0000

Using south dome telescope

By Owen Small

On the 25th of September 2009, Lindsay, Grant, Jackson, and I went to the Sydney observatory. This was a patrol activity for scouts and part of the astronomy badge.

We all met at the observatory and went inside. While we waited for the tour we looked around and saw a telescope.

When the tour started the first place we went to was the 1874 large refracting lens telescope which is the oldest working telescope in Australia. We looked at the moon.

After the 1874 telescope we looked in a room which had lots stuff to do with the Southern Cross.

We went to see a modern day telescope in the north dome. It is a 40cm computer-controlled reflecting (mirrored) telescope. We looked at Jupiter though it looked like a blurry dot because of heat and wind.

In the 3D cinema we watched a movie called Extreme Places. It was about the Galileo project, Titan, the Mars project, Europa and Io.

After that we all went home.

To organise a visit to the observatory, either call the observatory on (02) 9921 3485 or visit http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/.