Bear Grylls Visits Cumbria Scout Camp 2013

As my regular readers know, I said I was going camping this weekend, at an Explorer Scout Camp in Cumbria. It did rain, in fact it hailed and was so windy that the huge inflatable assault course blew away and hit a coach parked nearby! Bear Grylls did visit though, he's the UK Chief Scout. He arrived in his helicopter (see very fuzzy photos taken on my mobile) and travelled around the camp in a sort of orange all-terrain Bay Rescue vehicle (again, see fuzzy photos). There he signed autographs (damn my absolute lack of any planning at all!) and mostly waved at people. You can check this on the Westmorland Gazette Website. It was raining for most so I'm not surprised that he flew off again about 2 hours later. Possibly more to follow on this story if I remember, but now I'm going to watch TV. Live long and prosper!