A taste of outdoor adventure for scouts

FREELANCE cameraman Will Hutchinson made a surprise visit to the 3rd Lymm Scouts to give the youngsters a taste of his adventurous outdoor life.
Will – a former Lymm scout – took part in the last “The Island with Bear Grylls” series on television.
While spending six weeks surviving on the island off the Panama coast, he realised all the skills he was putting into use were learnt in 3rd Lymm Scouts during the 90’s under the tutelage of the then scout leader Dave Millachip.
Will said: “During moments of reflection on the island I decided that I should get in touch with my old scout group and see if they would be interested in letting me go down and ‘give something back’ and chat to the lads about my experiences”.
True to his word, Will entertained the scouts for two hours, showing them how to construct beds, purify water from a canal and how to make a fire with a bow and drill – activities that viewers saw on the show.
This was finished off by cooking and eating some crocodile  – from the local butchers! –  a slide show of pictures and stories that didn’t make it to broadcast, and a go with his professional camera.
For the scouts, it was one of the best nights they’d experienced, and sets them up for a summer of outdoor adventure.