Darren and Dave's Mystery Tours Dartmeet

It has been a little while since I have blogged about our Outreach days, mainly because we have not been able to go on them together, it is only fair other case workers have the opportunity to go off site, but for now we are back together and have had a couple of adventures.

Our first Mystery Tour takes us to Dartmeet, or more precisely, a short walk down the river Dart outside of Dartmeet.

Our aim was to find a nice spot to sit quietly and enjoy the sounds of the river and nature while setting up the wood gas stove, hammock and new tarpaulin rain cover.

After a short walk from Dartmeet car park we found the ideal spot.

Dave, SW and myself then set about setting up the hammock and cover, now we have set up the hammock before and therefore it went up easily, the cover however had not been set up before and this provided a perfect opportunity for SW to learn and demonstrate his Fault Finding and Problem Solving skills, the instruction we had when it came to putting up the tarpaulin was to not hang it over a ridge line, instead hang it from a ridge line, to protect the material from excessive wear and tear.

After exchanging ideas and opinions between the three of us it was set up successfully.

The camp stove was also soon set up (we have had a lot of practice getting it set up and the kettle boiling) and a hot chocolate was soon on its way.

We settled down and enjoyed a hot drink, watching the swallows diving across the river catching insects, at great speed and we had some ponies, and a foal, pass by us, and finally we had a group of foreign students walk by, we chatted with them for a while, finding out they had started in Exeter a couple days prior and were on their way to Plymouth, camping in the Moor along the way, but the best part, the young man leading the group had never even seen a map until the day they set off, we gave them an idea of the direction they were heading and they carried on their way.

Shortly after the rain began and so a very very wet camp breakdown began and a quick walk back to the car to head back to school.

Darren