I got invested with the Cubs on the crayfishing day with my sister Lucy in our garden at home. My mum had put 3 crayfish traps in the stream with fish remains in. Once they were caught she put them in a special net that would keep them alive just above the bottom of the stream to clean them out. These were the ones that we ate at Cubs. Mum had put the three traps back in the water. Each six pulled up one trap, and then we put the crayfish from the special net in a large box with water in it to rinse them. We each took one out and put them in boiling water. Some people put them in front of people’s faces! Whilst they were cooking we made a marie rose sauce with mayonnaise and ketchup and we also made potato salad, which Ann Eastlake, India’s mum showed us how to do. Once the crayfish were ready, then we had to use scissors and my mum showed us how to get the meat out of the crayfish. We cut through the tail shell and took out the digestive cord and bashed the claws with a hammer to get the meat out from there. Then we ate the crayfish with our marie rose sauce and potato salad. It was really good.
Local hunting and gathering and eating of crayfish by Anna (Cubs) Thursday, Oct 14 2010
Investitures and Nature and Trips, Hikes & Visits 7:59 pm
Cubs on a Nature Hunt … wot no moths? Thursday, Oct 1 2009
Nature 7:31 am
BY OLIVER & ANNA (Cubs)
At cubs last week, are aim was to go on a walk and collect different nature things such as a variety of leaves, also nuts, berries, and feathers. Our group is Anna and Angus (who only just started) James, William, Oliver (our Seconder) and our Sixer Luke.
In one long line we walked to the wood through lots of nettles. Bob was our leader and he checked all the badger holes by putting his arm up them. He also collected everything we got making the bag full up to the top. We picked all that we could find not knowing if it was on the tick list or not. We found a beech leaf, acorns, ferns, berries, bark, fir cones, spiders and also lots of animal poo which was kept out of Bob’s bag! We then hid in the bushes from Luke and William and jumped out as they walked by to frighten them.
As it started to get dark we marched back down the road to the cub hut singing the camp fire song as loud as we could. We ran in orderly form as fast as we could. When we got there we had a look at what the other groups had collected. As it was Oliver’s birthday we all had some of his chocolate brownies which were yummy! We also checked the moth trap but we had not caught any moths.
We then made birdfeeders. These were made from stale bagels that were cut in half, covered in lard and then lots of different seeds stuck to them. Some of us enjoyed eating the bagels and the seeds. It was then time to do the closing ceremony and the Ramsbury howl. We can’t wait for the night-hike next Thursday!
