Easter & The EPA

Sam here....




I'm back! So where I left off, I was packing to go camping. Needless to say I went and now I'm back,. telling you about it;

Bit of background. We have 2 tents, a sleeping tent and an eating tent. It was arctic in Ireland over the Easter break, getting down to -4 Celsius at night.

Friday;We arrive at our site and the guy who owns the land is waiting there on this massive quad with trailer, so we don't have to lug tents and boxes of supplies across a field, it's all taken care for us. We set up camp anyway and It was about 6 when I cooked a sexy chicken curry with white rice. We had a small fire but it was really windy and cold so at about 10 it wasn't worth it so we went, got tea and lay in our sleeping bags until we fell asleep.

Saturday; We got up at about 12, having sup post to have been up at 8. We made sausage and bacon sandwiches and sponged around the site. We were sup post to be making stuff like gateways, Ariel runways, zip lines and other pioneering projects, but we just lay around talking and drinking coffee. We also had a plan. The guy who owned the site was about 20, very cool and had a car. In scouts there are 5 patrols, each with about 6-8 people in it, all in the same area camping. We were 'ventures' and above scouts but not proper adult leaders yet, so we're in between. Anyway, back to the story. The guy who owned the field, we'll Scott was going to go to one of the other patrols and pretend to be from the EPA, giving out about cutting wood, the fire, non-biodegradable toilet paper, asking to see their camping permit. (ALL of these are absolute bullshit)
While Scott distracted them all by giving out to them, we would run up and steal food, a windshield, teabags, from their eating tent. Just little things, but they'd know that they had a visitor. It got dark at about 8, we loaded into Scott's car. Scott had a Creative which could record sound, so he had that in his shirt pocket recording the conversation. In the car on the way he was practicing his lines, and had got EPA leaflets about illegal dumping.

As he went up the field, they were setting off fireworks. Fireworks are illegal in Ireland. We had them. Scott was tearing their balls off about their lack of 'camping permit' while we, all dressed in dark ransacked the place. It went without a hitch. That was Saturday.

Sunday; Got up at about 11, and thought 'Shit, leaders will be inspecting today and we have nothing built'. We decided to be honest when the leaders came and take the disappointment thing as it went or whatever, we weren't in the competition anyway. The leader arrived and said 'This is a courtesy call, just to check your all here in 1 piece? Grand, have a good night lads. I wasn't expecting anything to be built anyway'. We sponged around the site some more, just kind of messing around, bit of horseplay, gathered firewood and had a huge fire that night.

Monday; Packed up, rang Scott, loaded up the Quad, Put stuff into parents cars to be brought home. Went back to the scout hall, dumped our crap off, and we'll sort through it on Wednesday. It's 5:30, I've dinner on, then I'm going out!

Happy Easter everyone!