Gingin Scout group

14/10/2026

The Australian Jamboree is coming up again, this time in Victoria. We are starting off our fundraising with a Quiz night.

12/10/2026

02/10/2026

🥾🌿 BIBBULMUN HIKE REVIEW – THEY MADE IT! 🌿🥾

Our 10 awesome Scouts did it! 🎉👏

🥾 26.81 km walked
⏱️ 18 hours of hiking
🌧️ Rain, tired legs and plenty of challenges along the way
⛺ Two nights of camping
💪 And most importantly… they kept going!

A massive CONGRATULATIONS to every one of our Scouts. What an incredible achievement!

Walking and camping alongside them were our two awesome Leaders, Gecko and Quokka, encouraging and supporting them every step of the way. ❤️

Behind the scenes, Kookaburra and Wren made up the support crew, making sure everyone and everything ended up where it needed to be!

During our review, one thing stood out — every single Scout was proud of themselves for making it. And they absolutely should be! 🥰

After 26.81 km, there was only one appropriate way to celebrate…

🍔 BURGERS AT MILKY LANE! 🍔

A very big thank you to Carey Park Scout Group for allowing us to stay at your Scout Hall. After three days on the track, those HOT SHOWERS were very much appreciated! 🚿😂

To our Scouts — you challenged yourselves, supported each other, pushed through the rain and tiredness, and achieved something pretty amazing.

26.81 km. 18 hours hiking. 10 Scouts. Two amazing leaders. One incredible adventure.

We are so proud of you all! ❤️🥾

29/09/2026

🥾🌿 BIBBULMUN TRACK ADVENTURE! 🌿🥾

This week our Scouts have packed up the Scout trailer once again and headed off on another adventure — this time taking on the Bibbulmun Track! 🎒⛺️

Over two nights and three days, our Scouts will hike approximately 25km, starting at Wellington Dam and making their way through to Glen Mervyn Dam, where our support crew will be waiting to pick them up.

Three days of hiking, carrying their packs, setting up camp, cooking their meals and putting all those bushwalking and camping skills they’ve been practising to good use. 💪🌳

Once everyone is safely off the track, it’s back to Carey Park Scout Hall for what will no doubt be a VERY welcome shower 🚿😂, a good feed and a comfortable night’s sleep!

Then on Friday, we pack everything up once again and make our way home — hopefully with lots of great stories, tired legs and some fantastic memories. ❤️

We are incredibly proud of our Scouts for taking on this challenge and giving it a go.

A huge thank you to our Leaders and support crew who make adventures like this possible. ❤️⚜️

25km • 3 days • 2 nights • One awesome Scout adventure! 🥾🎒🌿

Safe hiking everyone — enjoy the adventure!

15/09/2026

🌱🌏 MESSENGERS OF PEACE – COMMUNITY IN ACTION 🌏🌱

On Monday 14 September, our Joeys and Cubs met at the Gingin CRC to roll up their sleeves and give the gardens a much-needed w**d and tidy-up.

And what a job they did! 💪🌿

There was plenty of pulling, digging, teamwork and some serious discussion about exactly what was a w**d and what wasn’t… 😬😂 We’re pretty sure we didn’t pull out any actual plants! 🤞🌼🤣

By the end of the afternoon, an incredible 25 bags of w**ds had been collected — and rather than going to waste, they were recycled to some VERY excited chooks! 🐔😂

A huge thank you to our Leaders and parent helpers who got stuck in alongside the kids, and to the Gingin CRC for rewarding everyone’s hard work with a nice cold ice cream. 🍦❤️

But this activity was about much more than w**ding a garden.

Our youth have been working towards Messengers of Peace, a worldwide Scouting initiative that encourages young people to identify needs within their communities and take positive action.

Throughout the year our Joeys, Cubs and Scouts have been doing exactly that through activities including:

🌱 Community garden clean-ups
🗑️ Picking up rubbish around our community
🚑 Thanking our First Responders
📦 Taking part in our Homeless Sleepover, with funds raised being donated to Orange Sky
🤝 Participating in community and youth activities
🌿 Caring for our local environment

The Gingin CRC gardens themselves are a wonderful example of community connection. Volunteers including CWA, Gingin Garden Group and third-year medical students from Curtin University have worked alongside the CRC to help transform the area into a native, waterwise and therapeutic garden through w**ding, pruning, planting, watering, mulching and plenty of hard work.

We are very proud that our Joeys and Cubs could play their own small part in continuing to care for this community space. ❤️

This is Scouting. This is community. This is young people making a difference. ⚜️🌏

07/09/2026

At Scouts Australia, every conversation with a young person is an opportunity to listen, build trust and help them feel safe, valued and respected.

30/08/2026

🚀🔬🤩 CUB SCITECH NIGHT! 🤩🔬🚀

Twelve Cubs + Scitech + lots of energy = one VERY entertaining night! 😂

Twelve of our amazing Cubs spent Saturday evening along with other Cub Units from across the state exploring, experimenting, discovering, pushing buttons, testing things and learning — although sometimes we weren’t entirely sure whether they were conducting the experiments… or WERE the experiment! 🤔😂🔬

They threw themselves into everything with their usual enthusiasm and curiosity, and we couldn’t be prouder of every single one of them. ❤️⚜️
Twelve happy Cubs, plenty of laughs, lots of learning and another awesome Gingin Cubs adventure in the books! 🚀🔬🪐⚜️

29/08/2026

🎶🌿🥾 ANOTHER WEEK OF SCOUTING ADVENTURES! 🥾🌿🎶

It was another busy week for our Joeys, Cubs and Scouts, with plenty of creativity, adventure and some very wet feet! 😂

🎸 JOEYS – STRANGE MUSIC DAY 🥁
Our Joeys had a fantastic time creating their own musical instruments using recycled materials and items found around the hall. Their enthusiasm was contagious as they dressed up to form their very own bands and used their instruments to create sound effects for a story. Lots of noise, imagination and fun!

🥾 CUBS – BUSH ADVENTURES 🌿
Dressed in their rubber boots, our Cubs headed out on a bush hike to explore the plants and animals around us. Although our normally wet forest was surprisingly dry, we discovered a pool filled with tadpoles and water plants that definitely needed closer inspection! 🐸

We may have said, “Don’t go deeper than your boots”… apparently that was open to interpretation! 😬😂

Back at the hall, we reviewed Bushcraft Stages 1 and 2 and talked about risk assessments and how we can make our adventures safer.

🌧️ SCOUTS – HIKING & CAMPCRAFT ⛺
A huge well done to our Scouts for braving the cold, wet weather and completing 6km of hiking in the rain! They also practised setting up camp, organising their tents and sleeping gear, then packing everything away again.

Hopefully everyone has finally warmed up and dried out! ☔😂

Three very different adventures, but plenty of learning, teamwork and fun across all our sections. ❤️⚜️

21/08/2026

⚜️ LEARNING BY DOING AT GINGIN SCOUT GROUP! ⚜️

It’s been another busy couple of weeks for our Joeys, Cubs and Scouts, with plenty of fire, knots, bushcraft, navigation and teamwork!

🧭 SCOUTS
Last week our Scouts prepared for Nighthawk, brushing up on their navigation skills and packing the Scout trailer ready for the weekend adventure.

After successfully tackling Nighthawk, this week they reviewed the event, cleaning and packing up tents, before putting their pioneering skills to the test. Working together, they built chariots, with everyone required to contribute a knot or lashing. The finished chariots then had to successfully carry two Scouts over a set distance! 🪢💪

🔥 JOEYS
Our Joeys have also been busy learning some great practical skills. Last week they learnt the Reef Knot, discovered some of its uses—including making a sling—and put their skills into action with a safety game.

This week it was all about fire safety and campfire cooking. 🔥🍕 Everyone created their own pizzas to cook over the open fire, followed by campfire biscuits and a fun campfire song.

There was no question about the favourite activity of the night — the campfire biscuits were a huge hit! 😂

⛺ CUBS
Our Cubs have certainly experienced some true Scouting weather lately!

For their Campfire Cookout, they learnt about the fire triangle, campfire safety and how to safely extinguish a fire before working in patrols to build the perfect campfire. They then cooked baked potatoes over the fire and practised Stop, Drop and Roll. 🔥🥔

The following week brought cold, wet and windy conditions — perfect for a Bushcraft Challenge! 🌧️

Using just two poles, a tarp, rope and two pegs, the Cubs worked together to build emergency shelters before moving onto knots. With help from our knot gurus Dale and Melissa, they practised the Clove Hitch, Reef Knot and Bowline, finishing with a very enthusiastic Knot Relay! 🪢

It has been fantastic seeing everyone learning new skills, solving problems, working together and, most importantly, having plenty of fun along the way.

Learning by doing — that’s what Scouting is all about! ⚜️🔥🧭⛺