Adventure (OAS badges and more)
Adventure in Scouts
Scouts provides adventurous activities locally at the group level with trained leaders, and for some specialities, through other Scout centres and outside centres.
Scout specialist adventure activity areas - click to view the external website.
water - canoe - kayak - boating - sailing - standup paddle boarding - Brownsea Water Activity Centre and on Facebook; log onto www.scoutsqld.com.au and look under program.
environment - Eprapah Scout Environment Centre and on Facebook
Air - Scout Air Activities centre, Redcliffe airport. No direct web link available - log onto www.scoutsqld.com.au and look under program.
Alpine - courses available for Scouts 14 years and older, via Scouts training calendar.
SCUBA - course available via Scouts training calendar.
Scouts adventure training courses are available for Scouts 14 years and older, and detailed in the Scouts Qld training calendar. See the Welcome page for access details for external Scout resources. USI (Unique Student Identifier) required (USI.gov.au).
Outdoor Adventure Skills requirements
There is a compact book and introduction here, and progressively the lower stages are being loaded onto this website.
Campcraft
Further information/training:
Bushwalking skills (includes first aid skills)
Scout Central e-learning. Log on to Scout Central, look for e-learning and online electives. Log in details are your member number and date of birth in six digit format, or use the "forgot password" link that will use your primary email address when you first joined scouts.
Gear lists
These are our standard gear lists, often with explanation - the camp organisers may provide a custom list specific for each camp.
Gear list - standing camp
Gear list - bushwalking
Gear list for hikes - SJW Scouts.docx