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St Lucia Scout Troop Home Page

A Scout Troop is divided up into "Patrols" of about 6 scouts, each one headed by a Patrol Leader and Assistant Patrol Leader. The St Lucia Scout Troop only has one Patrol at the moment, because a whole group of PLs and APLs recently went up to Venturers. There has been so much shuffling round that we have ended up with two PLs, but no APLs have been appointed. Scouts include: Charles Hudson (Senior PL), George Prentice (PL), Elliot DeFina, Micheal Zaghini, James Foley, Allks Atrens, William Story and Luke Zaghini.

Officially our Scout Leader is Falcon, but he can't turn up so often that in practice, our Group Leader, Roo, holds that position!

Falcon.

The Scout Association is always holding activities and competitions among troops etc., that often include testing of general Scouting skills, mapping, compass, first aid and knotting/construction. The St Lucia Scout Troop has a long history of successes in this area, for instance, in the Top Ten Patrols out of 150 from all around the South-East corner of Queensland in the competition "Butterfly" in 1991 and 1994, and winning the NightHawk competition (of about 1000 scouts) in 1996!

Although now and then we are quite successful competition wise (and so skill wise), in actual fact we aren't very competitive and if we have a group of new scouts, we know that we may not be able to do as well as we have, and just have a lot of fun. (We did that in NightHawk '97 and still did well! Read about that in this report by James Foley.)

Below is a list of many of the activities over the last year that the St Lucia Scout Troop have been on:

Two day Patrol Leader's training course.
Went to see a performance of the Brisbane Gang Show.
Patrol Night (barbeque at George's.)
Cooking night.
Construction night.
Abseiling/Rockclimbing night.
Games night.
Participation in Operation Nighthawk.
First Aid night
Participated in Taringa-Milton-Toowong Scout Troop Rally.
Hosted St Lucia Scout Group 50th Anniversary Rally.
Badgework Night.
Pulleys and Knotting night.
Three day Charge Certificate Course.
Afternoon at a Shooting Range.
Two day camp at O'Reilly's (Lamington National Park).
Iceskating night.
One day Mt Tibrogargen hike.
Waterfight-breakup night.
Compasses and navigation night.
Joint Scout-Cub canoeing camp at Allowah.
ANZAC Day March.
Gone to see "Midsummer's Night Dream".

Visit our Photo Gallery to learn more about us. Most of the pictures were taken in the scout den, which we've just been forced out of. We now meet on Fridays from 7:30pm to 9:30pm at the Cub Den - yes, with the venturers.