Wiltshire Scouts XF260405 – CH2
An unforgettable adventure began this April as ten young people from Wiltshire Scouts stepped on board Challenger 2.
In this blog, they share their experiences in their own words.
Day 1
05 April 2026
As we arrived at the Challenger 2, we were all very excited, but we were attacked by a kraken that seemed very angry. It launched itself at us on the behalf of our arch nemesis, the Victoria of Wight Ferryyyy. We escaped by the skin of our teeth and using our awesomely magical knot skills (and, of course, our laser beam eyes). However, we were then ambushed by the Victoria of Wight feryyyy itself, who was lying in wait for us and them attempted to reason with us that red was green, green was red, and port actually meant eckyeckythwimp. The french captain informed us that we needed to get him a chocolate ice cream and some small cheese. He also told us that the Victoria was actually disguised orange and purple hippo and he was escaped from the Greek flamingo zoo.
After our awful ordeal, we arrived in Cowes by 6 o’clock and managed to valiantly win chocolate eggs from the harbourmaster (who may or may not be a vampire). However, he tricked us into accepting eggs that were actually from a dragon. Thankfully, they only hatched into chickens, which we then ate in chicken fajitas. We all slept very peacefully, because the skipper’s duck collection and a crocheted mushroom (by the name of Schnopulous LVI) took the helm.
By day duck, by night, SUPERHERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Day 2
06 April 2026
Today we woke up to sunny skies full of rainbows and unicorns. Tomas had a dream about losing his earplugs, then finding them and then he woke up and didn’t have them. Someone also had a dream about Charlie being in a fajita but idrk if that’s gonna be chill or nah because what if someone tries to eat her now, that would not be skibidi and we Then the best people ever (glorious guppy fish) got dressed in our CUTE MATCHING OUTFITS!!!!! Whilst the groups made us breakfast 😊. Following that we then got ready to set sail like the amazing cutesy people we are. Once we set sail, a group of us went to the front of the boat and were standing up whilst trying to not fall off because of the HUGE waves that had narwhals and mermaids that were tickling our feet. (Cyrus basically was close but like its fine because like he didn’t and he was attached to the boat although he did get soaking wet feet and that’s ewy and uncomfy fr. but its completely fine because we were safe and supervised😊 trust this was not dangerous ).
OMG WE ALSO DID A TITANIC POSE AT THE FRONT OF LE BOAT AND IT LOOKS AMAZEBALLS
During this whimsical day we got to elegantly pull at some ropes to raise ANOTHER SALE (Yeah that’s right, two sales).
Today was a difficult day ☹ and we all basically felt like really sick to the point where EVERYONE THREW UP THEIR PASTA THAT WAS ORANGE AND GROSS (sorry if that’s tmi) but its fine 😊 we all survived and made it to Weymouth happily (more or less).
Day 3
07 April 2026
This is the last survivor (they’re all fine) on challenger 2.
Today we started off with banging eggy bread which was the first for our amazing watch leader who is from the North, also the eggy bread was slightly mushy sometimes.
We then moved on to pulling people up the mast (no one was hurt mostly, except myself as the skin on my knee was horrifically torn from my body and it given a scar I’ll have forever). After that we went and had ✨free time✨ where we had Bepo Gelato which was proper BANGING!
Then sadly our free time was up and we had to go do the BEACH OLYMPICS which was tragic for our boat, one of our teammates was pulled upside down and sand was thrown in their eyes. We also won the dinghy race Yay!!! Then we had fish and chips which was BANGING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now it comes to me sitting here typing this, hoping someone finds me, oxygen is low (our ship was sent to space and this rock guy showed up and he’s tapping on some glass, PROJECT HAIL MARY REFERENCE ).
Goodbye, for now………
Day 4
08 April 2027
Today we are making a song
ARTIST: LIL’ T
SONG: BIG K
Yo BIG K
Today is not your DAY
So get out the WAY
Or else you’ll fall in the BAY
And you’ll be sad so you won’t go YAY
So you’ll make it your DAY
And run far AWAY
You’ll get to the boat and there won’t be HAY
Then you will make it your DAY
And you will go YAY
(oooooooooooooooo YEAH)
Cause today will be your DAY
(YYYYYYAAAAAAYYYYY)
Day 5
09 April 2026
We were ruthlessly awoken by the engine at dead early in the morning (6:00). Up on deck the sunrise was like a plate of red, yellow, and orange skittles on a plate of water. Breakfast was lightly toasted chocolate crepes. Joel spilt his rainbow nerds over the deck that would soon end up in his sleeping bag.
The task was set our boarding party was prepped to be ready to board the other challengers whilst playing pirates of the Caribbean. We arrived along side challenger 1 and had a very cool dance off (that we won!!!!!!!!!!😊), once we smoked the other ship the people of youth went below deck to gathered pots and pans, then the boat arrived at challenger 4 and we circled them whilst they banged the pots together (they were definitely intimidated).
Then it got to the hard work, we were forced to excruciatingly heave up the Yankee and staysail and practise tacking we then took tuns steering the ship and one person in particular stood out, CYRUS DID AMAZING and successfully kept the ship going straight AND avoided two different near collisions with expert level skill, while this was going on the clock was clicking down until we could dock in Cowes, we had an amazing lunch that was beautifully cooked by, Greta, Holly, Kacy and Thomas (it was ciabattas) after lunch our skipper (the amazing Sophie) allowed us free time around Cowes n we had a lot of fun doing the scavenger hunt that she gave us.
The evening rolled in and the sun set over the horizon as we sat don for our final dinner aboard challenger 2 (chicken curry) and Cyrus, Holly and Kacy had some chocolate spread mixed with rise and it was very gooood, we all got very emotional as we realised that we had just finished our last full day together.
Signed Cyrus (the best) and Robbie