Yeppoon

This post is the fourth of a continuing series on my blog that will describe what I do every Thursday night at SES Cadets.

You may have noticed that there is no post for the 3rd of May. The reason for this lapse is because I and my family were down near Sydney, attending a wedding. We didn’t get back until about 3:00PM today. Anyway, you can hear about what I did in another post.

Tonight we continued practicing skills that we will need for the SES Camp that is supposed to be next month. One of the skills is learning knots, so we did about 15 minutes of knot tying. My favourite is either the Alpine Butterfly or the Bowline. The latter can be done with only one hand, and the only difficulty is getting your hand back through the hole.

Another skill we practiced was putting up a cliff rescue frame. The shape is a triangular based pyramid, and it has one bar going across the ground with two pairs of bars pointing out at an angle opposite each other. A pulley is then attached to the side hanging over the ground, and a rope (I think) is attached to the side hanging over the cliff. The people manning the equipment can then raise and lower the side hanging over the cliff, as well as pulling up the people who need rescuing.

The last thing that we did was to learn how to safely put a person into a stretcher, and then carry it. After that, we packed up the chairs and tables and waited to be picked up.