This was a pleasant day's work for Aardvark Endeavours, leading one of several groups of children from a nearby school. Well, not so much leading them, but looking after them while they completed a navigation exercise.
The exercise was designed by my colleague Martin Torbett, and had a sequence of bearings to follow for specific distances, with landmarks described, and a jig-saw map the pieces of which were gradually handed to the children; the object was to collect hidden objects on a set route in sequence. My job was to look after the children, to show them how to follow a given bearing from a protracting compass, and to make sure that they arrived at the destination on time. I had the support of a school teacher with my group, which is always welcome.
The weather conditions were very favourable, and the task just challenging enough, and the children all enjoyed it, as did I.
