Scouts - Canoe Polo

By Ashleigh Petzer

Heritage Day, 24^th September was the day in which the district canoe polo competition 2009 took place. The day started out with people being taught how to canoe, which was quite entertaining when they all realized that they had to capsize. At 10:00, a demo game of canoe polo was played to show the land scouts groups how canoe polo was really played. In this game, push over rule applied. After the intense demo game, the real games started and continued throughout the day.

The games were very interesting as although push over rule didn’t apply, people still managed to fall over in every game without the help of another person. The end of the day saw the 3^rd ken senior team winning without being scored against once. They scored 53 goals in total, which was expected as we are the only sea scouts in the district.

Disregarding 3^rd Kensington, Whychwood came out top of the land scouts. Certificates were handed out at the final parade and included awards such as ‘The best submarine’ (for the person who sank the most) and ‘The best swimmer’ (for the person who spent more time in the water than in their boat when playing a polo game). I think that everyone had fun and that they now see that being a sea scout is so much more fun than being a land scout.