In April we took some of the older boys, the Sixers and Seconds, to Dartmoor for a weekend.

We stayed in Bowerman's Cottage, a cottage near Manaton that belongs to the Guide Association.

The cottage is near Jay's Grave, so we went to the grave to pay our respects.

(Jay's Grave is one of the old legends of Dartmoor. There are always fresh flowers on the grave, and nobody knows who puts them there!)

During the days we went letterboxing.

The boys have found a letterbox, and are taking copies of the letterbox stamp (so that they can all have a copy) and leaving a copy of the Pinhoe Cubs stamp to say that we were there.

Letterboxing needs good skill at map-reading and compass work, and real perseverance. Some of the boys showed that they had all of those things, and over the weekend we found 13 letterboxes.

When you carry a First Aid kit all the time it's really good to get the chance to use it! It's even better if the only thing you get to use it on isn't too serious - in this case using the tweezers to take a thorn out of a finger!

We didn't spend all the time on the moors. Some time we spent back at the cottage, where we had challenges and chores to do.

It was raining on the last day so we didn't go far, we walked to Bowerman's Nose near the cottage.

Where the keen ones were still wanting to practice their navigation during breaks in the cloud.

And a scramble on the rocks during breaks in the rain.