Wonderful to see 1st Durbanville still leading the way.

I was an ASM with Buzz Macey and Ernie Penrose when Roelof de Haan was still a Scout!

i.e. around 1970 to 1973

Keep the web site up and going chaps.
1st Durbanville always a winning team.

So glad to see that scouting has remained the foundation that so many draw on and attribute their lifes successes to. Joined 1st Muizenberg in 1970 as did my 3 brothers after me. All of us agree that scouting, more than any other, had a profoundly positive effect on our lives.
My little fellow is 7 this year and will join on his birthday. Well done on a fantastic site and God bless all who work so tirelesly at giving our youngsters skills which cannot be learned anywhere else.

Mike

Greetings - I remeber 1st Durbanville from 1970 when I was making the transition from Troop Leader to A S M at 1st Kuils River and I assisted with 1st Durbanville to get away from my home troop for a while!

I still have my "brownies uniform" datingh back to the mid 70''s and can't wait to introduce my son to Scouts. I am sure he is going to love it.

Looking at the website makes all those wonderful memories come flooding back! Great site.

Hi guys just want to say nice job with the sight.I personally love it.I have a very strange thing to ask....I was in Cederburg 2004 Patrol 38.I believe I was in the same patrol as the 1st durbanville scouts.If any one can put me into contact withany one of my patrol partners of cederburg 2004it would be much appreciated.

This website is vey impressive hopefully one day our troop can set something like this up as it is great for informing the scouts about whats happening in the calender.

Greeting from the UK. Hope you guys are all Ok in Africa. We are contacting Cub Scout across the world to find out how Scouting is operating in your area. Is Scouting very active, what activities do you do? Let us know. E-mail me
Your in Scouting

Greetings from St. Stanislaus College Scout Group, located in Georgetown, Guyana. We have
3 sections in our Group: Cub Scout (7-11 yrs), Explorer Scouts (11- 15 yrs) and Venturer Scouts (15-19 yrs).
We do not have a website ..we hope to set up one this year.
Your website is simple but very informative. Kudos to all the Leaders and Young People in your Scout Troop.
Hope that we can establish a link between our Groups.
Yours in Scouting
Gary Mendonca
Group Leader
SSC-SG
"Scouts Guyana"

Excellent site. Great to see a very active scout group. Best of luck to your patrols in 2008.

Dear brother scouts

I used to to be an A.T.S under Anton DeRoo at 1st Pinelands back in 1994-1999. I have since been over in Australia since 2001 and although the country is great the scouting system here is not the same - to say the least. Here in Australia Scouts goes from 11 years to 14 years of age, how is anyone supposed to master all the skills that scouting has to offer, especially the likes of major pioneering, backwoodsman,first-aid etc., in just three years? At the age of 14 they join venturers (something like rovers)and do community service and stuff like that, thats all good, but in order to create leaders for the future you need to be involved in the patrol system over a number of years - imagine having 13/14 year olds trying to teach all the scouting skills that they themselves are trying to master. I attended a number of meetings over here, but it didn't seem to have the same appeal, and so at present I am not involved in the movement I once thought I could not be without, I long to back in South Africa, not just to be back into 'home' Scouting, but to be home and back into seriously scouting!!!
Dear Scouts treasure what you have and that you maybe take for granted. South Africa, apart from the inspiration behind B.P's scouting system offers the true esscence of scouting and something I really miss - continue your scouting venture knowing that you are blessed to have what you have and next time you are out on an expedition or challenged with a seeminglly impossible task take the time to thank your Scouters and God for your truely real scouting experience.

Yours in Scouting
Richard

Hey guys cool site=)

Great site! Glad to see a successful scouting unit. I'm the advisor of a venturing crew (14-21 males and females) who specialize in high adventure, amateur radio and emergency prepardness/medical training and activities.

We all enjoy the fellowship that international scouting gives. Hope to hear you on JOTA!

Great to see what scouts do in other places. Not much different than the stuff we do. Keep it up.

greeting from 5 th invergordon cubs ross-shire scotland , you have a great web site.

brian moran

akela

Hey Ryan, the site is looking great. You doing an awsome job. Best thing it is simple and easy to use, no hunting around for info. Cheers Andre

It's great to see scouters having fun all over the world and to see so many great pics

The website has been updated and looks a bit new. Let me know how you like it. Email Ryan

Great to see my old troop on the Web !
I have fond memories of about 8 or more years of Scouting. Greetings also to Jurie Schuurman and Jeremy Donnelly, who were my first patrol leaders around 1973. Maybe a forum for Old Boys could be added to the web.
Wishing you every success in the future!
Roelof de Haan

Good to see that scout groups are getting space o the internet to view their achievements. Hope to some of you at the World Scout Jamboree in London in 2007. Lets show them how we Suth Africans do it. I will be on the staff crew here to bid you welcome and make your staff pleasant.