2020 is proving to be an exciting year for the Youth of Troop 586. We have not one but two big adventures coming up. Some of our youth will be attending a sailing trip around the Bahamas and our older youth are going to Kandersteg the International Scout Centre. Want to know more? Read on... The Bahamas - Seabase Read more about what Seabase Bahamas is here. Update Sept 2019: as many of you may have known the Bahamas got hit with a horrible hurricane that wiped out much of the Bahamas including our beloved Marsh Harbor our Seabase location in the Bahamas. Much help is still needed to help recover this area. At this time we are still planning a trip through Seabase but are unsure what the details for our 2020 trip will look like. Kandersteg International Scout Centre The Founder of Scouting, Lord Baden-Powell, dreamed of one place, where Scouts can meet, live in peace and learn from each other. Our youth have dreamed of such an opportunity for most of their scouting careers and they decided to plan it before many of their scouting careers come to an end as a youth. Kandersteg is located in Switzerland in the heart of the Alps, a place full of adventure. So they have planned a week-long adventure in KISC going canyoning, river rafting, and lots of hiking. I mean this is the Alps, right? Since this is a trip of a lifetime these high adventure boys decided that since they were going to Europe why not go to London, where Boy Scouts was born and visit Brown Sea Island, stay in Lord Baden-Powell's home which is now a Scout Hostel. These high adventure boys didn't stop there, they also added a trip to Rome in all of this and this is where the Adult Leaders and Parents allowed it to stop. So the full plan of this amazing trip looks like this: Fly into Rome, Italy stay for 3 days, take the train to Switzerland to stay at the KISC for a week, take the train to London, England and check out the sites for 3 days and fly home. Read more about Kandersteg International Scout Centre here. Many of these families are trying to raise funds to help pay for this trip as the average cost for each person is around $3,500. Feel free to read their bios and check out their Go Fund Me pages. They can use all of the help you can offer. |