Category Archives: Joeys

The Joey Scouts met at the top of Royal Park for a bike ride down through Royal Park to the Royal Children’s Hospital playground. At the playground we had time for a long play and met 4th Brunswick Cubs. 4th Brunswick Cubs organised a fantastic scavenger hunt where the Joeys joined the Cubs’ sixes. A fun night!

As part of the Adventure Challenge badge, we visited the Koorie Heritage Trust at Federation Square and Birrarung Marr. We saw an exhibition called “Stitching Together the Songlines” which included possum and kangaroo skin cloaks. At Birrarung Marr we saw various art installations celebrating Aboriginal Australian heritage described in the book Melbourne Dreaming.

Getting hands-on with the displays            |   5 shields representing groups of the Kulin nation   | Carvings in the play space

Rolling down the giant hill                            |  Detail of the eel trap work on the ground    |   Listening to the giant grass sway in the wind

Heading back to Flinders Street station

It was a chilly but atmospheric outing to Whittlesea for the annual Plenty Valley Region campfire.

Joey Scouts learned about the global Scouting program “Messengers of Peace“.

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We were delighted to plant habitat for the Helmeted Honeyeater for the second year in a row. Last year there were less than 100 birds left in the wild but this year they have seen more than 200.

About 30 Joeys, siblings and parents – plus our wonderful family with a Cub and a Scout – planted 500 indigenous “mid storey” plants such as kangaroo apple, woolly tea tree, prickly currant bush and Victorian Christmas bush, to name a few.

The undoubted highlight was seeing birds in the wild! We were lucky enough to see – very close – about half a dozen birds. Because some of the population bred at Healesville Sanctuary were released into the reserve, these birds are used to people and came to see if we might have some food for them.

Thanks again to Friends of the Helmeted Honeyater, helping to rescue Victoria’s bird emblem from extinction.

We saw a number of birds – and there are only 200 left!

Planting a tricky area on a slope                    |     New seedling                                    | Whole family getting in the action

Our pot snake with half the planting done – we planted 2 * this amount!

Satisfied with our efforts                                 | Our mascot, Flying Fox, likes to come too

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Kangaree 2019 saw 740 Joeys and over a thousand people in all, descent on Lardner Park in Warragul for a jam-packed weekend of fun and activities. Another first for our Mob!

Most people think of camping, when they think of Scouts. But we also try to enjoy the natural beauty of our local urban environment, such as our recent pre-Kangaree sleepover and “urban hike”.

There’s such a great symmetry in the fact that we enjoyed a Vietnamese lion dance for Founders Day this year and were delighted to hear from a former Vietnamese Joey Scout, who has relocated to Canada. Our worldwide movement enjoys so many links!

Did you know there is an Australian Native Garden in Royal Park? Or a cairn to mark the point that Bourke and Wills left for their quest to cross the country from south to north? Well our Joeys do. We visited as part of our Environment Challenge.