Glasgow University and GramNet
The week kicked off with the arrival of a bunch of students from Glasgow University who were going to be spending the next 3 days with us. They were all currently in the process of working on various pHds for all sorts of different fields of expertise all of which they would be giving a short talk to each other and the Camas staff on what it was that they were studying and, for many of them, why that interested them.
The few days that they spent at Camas were completely action packed with seemingly endless amounts of kayaking, abseiling and an unbelievable amount of bracken bashing (the woodland - and Gav - thank you!) and the trip to market bay all interspersed with presentations, games, interesting conversations, delicious food, music and a cosy campfire which was interrupted by a group of dolphins who had decided that it was a good time for them to come and play in the bay.
The days just seemed to fly by and before we knew it we were sharing our final reflection with them and seeing them off at the top of the track before hurrying back to Camas to prepare the centre for the Gram Net group who were arriving later on the same day!
Before we knew it we were back up at the top of the track welcoming the Gram Net group who were going to be staying with us for the next 2 days which we filled with the usual Camas activities and – obviously – more bracken bashing, the stuff just never seems to give up! More games, more chats and more campfires took place which unfortunately lacked the maritime visitors the previous campfire enjoyed.
By the time we were waving the Gram Net folks off we were exhausted from all of the activities we had been a part of and were looking forward to our day off spent in the sun and get some time to relax at the end of an extremely busy and thoroughly enjoyable week and start to prepare for the folk from the Coming Home Centre who would be darkening our track-end on Monday evening.
