Over half term Explorers from Drake ESU went on a bushcraft camp. After hiking into the campsite, they set up hammocks and had a fireside supper.
Saturday saw them start a fire without matches, then cooking breakfast and baking bread over the wood. While lunch was baking, it was time to practice their whittling skills to create pot hangers and carve spoons.
The afternoon was spent building shelters from fallen wood and leaf mould. Dinner was a pheasant stew, for which they butchered the meat from whole birds. They also cooked jacket spud in the fire ready for breakfast in the morning. Saturday night all slept out in shelters made from natural materials.
Sunday started with a hearty breakfast of jacket potato, gammon and eggs roughed up into an omelette before striking camp and preparing a stir fry lunch of partridge, pigeon, veg and noodles before hiking back out to the pickup.