This year we decided to have a sleepover rather than a Pack Holiday. So rather than 2 nights away we had 1 night away, in an aquarium, with the monkeys and the fish.
We can highly recommend Blue Reef, they were brilliant and looked after us really well. We had the aquarium to ourselves all evening and over night, other than the hundreds of fish, monkeys, otters and seals. We had a private tour of the aquarium and we learned lots and lots from our aquarist. We saw fish, we held reptiles, we made a fabulous fish craft, we watched a film while drinking hot chocolate and eating popcorn and best of all we slept with monkeys and fish.
The following day we spent the morning on the beach, playing games and building sand castles. We had our lunch in the pouring rain hiding under a parachute! ‘This is the best sleepover I have ever been on’ was heard more than once from our Brownies, rain and all.
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- Looking at fish
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- Turtles
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- Turtles
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- The leaders
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- Watching fish
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- Waiting for the otters
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- Otters
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- Otters
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- Otters
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- Scary fish
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- Even more scary fish
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- Watching fish
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- Learning about fish
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- Watching fish
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- Watching seahorses
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- We loved this fish
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- Fish
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- Learning about fish
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- Watching monkeys
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- Watching monkeys
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- The fish tunnel
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- Shoal of fish
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Fish craft
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- Watching the film in jimjams
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- Sleeping in the fish tunnel
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- Sleeping in the fish tunnel
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- Excellent sleeping bag
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- Otters
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- Otters
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- Jumping otters
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- The leaders
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- Brownies rule
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- 2nd Sedgefield Brownies
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- A particularly tricky umbrella
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- A particularly tricky umbrella
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- Jo with a sore toe
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- Making sandcastles
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- Making sandcastles
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- Making sandcastles
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- Making sandcastles
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- Making sandcastles
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- Making sandcastles
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- Making sandcastles
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- Making sandcastles
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- Making sandcastles
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- Making sandcastles
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- Making sandcastles
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- Making sandcastles
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- Making sandcastles
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- Making sandcastles
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- Beach noughts and crosses
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- Beach noughts and crosses
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- Beach noughts and crosses
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- Beach noughts and crosses
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- Beach noughts and crosses
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- Beach noughts and crosses
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- Beach noughts and crosses
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- Beach rounders
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- Sand art
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- Wandering
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- Sand angel
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- Sandy toes
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- Hiding under the parachute
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- Hiding under the parachute
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- Hiding under the parachute
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- Hiding under the parachute
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- Hiding under the parachute
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- Playing parachute
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- Hiding under the parachute
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- Playing parachute
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- Hiding under the parachute
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- Hiding under the parachute
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- Hiding under the parachute
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- Hiding under the parachute
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- Hiding under the parachute
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- Jo hiding under the parachute
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- Wet lunch
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