Haarlem Jamborette: Re-cap, Friday 2nd August

Friday, 16 August 2019

Re-cap, Friday 2nd August

Day 7, On a normal week long summer camp, Day 7 would be the day we would be packing up, and heading home, This However was the Haarlem Jamborette, and the pack up and go home would not take place for another 5 days, it also marked the last day of any ( significant) rain, as the sun returned in the afternoon with avengance
And that Day, we had Jambo Tours,

We also had Bacon, Beans (oddly described as white beans in the camp food book) and scrambled egg on the breakfast menu

Soon we were on the bus, heading towards the Stoommachine Museum:
https://stoommachinemuseum.nl/

In the morning we still had some heavy rain, however by the afternoon the rain stopped, and the sun started to break through

For the trip, the entire group ( three coachloads) was split into four groups, A, B, C, D
Groups A and B were off outside, some at the beach area for some games, and some in boats outside
with Groups C and D inside for the first part, we were inside in the morning ( when it was rinaing) and outside in the afternoon when it had stopped raining :)

This place had live steam engines fed from the original boilers, which were demonstrated to the Scouts

After that we had some lunch it was off for the outside activities, and towards the beach on the inland Ijsselmeer where there were a few games, and the opportunity to go into the shallow water - which was still quite warm, as in the weeks before the Haarlem Jamborette there was a heatwave with temperatures in the 40's (c)plus the Sun was starting to make an appearance

After a bit of time, there we headed back to the steam museum where we were told that there was another activity on some peddle boats/paddle boats ( ?? )

What we got was an activity set up by a Second world war recfreation group,using some old pontoon boats and a race had been set up, paddle the boats round a bouy, and back again, the first group to sound the air raid siren was the winner