06 08 07

Today is our last day at 'the office'. John Magrath greeted us at the Maintenance compound with a box of Harrogate Toffee each - He's a Yorkshire Man! First job was to have a brew and then do a Water Run around the site. I want a Golf Buggy for Christmas!! The little buggy have been hired to help get people and kit around the site and we used one to tow a small trailer around to the various activity sites off loading bottled water. Back to our compound via a check that the transport team had enough water in their boiler - and we had to make sure it was hot enough to make tea - we had lunch early as we were to go and start dropping flagpoles as soon as the afternoon participants were on the water. Unfortunately everything ground to a halt. I Scout had been knocked unconscious at the rafting area and was taken to the Dam Wall where he was met by a first aid crew; who called for an Ambulance; who called for a Helicopter Evacuation. This meant we had to keep all the kits well away and off the water whist the helicopter spectacularly landed on the dam wall. The good news is that there was no major problem and the Scout and his leaders were actually discharged from hospital later and made it back to the Splash! site to be able to join the afternoon coaches back to site. After the drama we started to drop some of the flag and banner poles but too soon 4:30 was upon us and we returned to the compound to have a team photo and get a certificate of thanks from the Splash! team.