The Big Wild Sleepout on Havergate Island was truely an amazing adventure for everyone involved - visitors and volunteers alike!
Here are the real numbers behind the event of a lifetime:
• 1 hare trail with 16 white hares, many strange clues and 15 correct facts had been set up on
• 1 remote and fragile RSPB nature reserve for
• 4 lucky families, which headed out to Suffolk's 1 and only island
• to be welcomed by 5 enthusiastic volunteers with a set of fantastic skills.
Photo by Kevin Sawford, www.kevinsawford.com
• 10 children with their ages ranging from 2 to 13 years enjoyed the wide sky and the wilderness of the Suffolk coast,
• 1 bag full of not yet counted LEGO pieces and
• 1 'Funny Bunny' game with 16 toy hares in 4 colours disappearing in some unexpected holes.
• 72 colouring pencils were used by the 10 children and some adults to design 14 new islands with the support of 1 Artist in Residence.
• 27 brown hares live on the island and 1 of them was curious enough to inspect the camp area with the 5 tents on the visitor centre lawn.
• Uncountable numbers of weired and wonderful birds were heared and watched by the 17 visitors, while feeding by day and roosting by night on the island's lagoons.
• Many crickets were caught and released to the delight of the 10 children.
• 0 moths were caught because the moth trap, tired of doing the same thing again and again, decided to operate as a lighthouse for a night.
• 1 fantastic barbecue grill, was provided by www.roadii.co.uk, on which 6 burgers, 16 sausages and 4 corn cobs were cooked and roasted.
• 8 or more cameras have taken hundreds of photos of Suffolk landscape, hares, children and birds but no photo has been taken of
• The handful of shooting stars, which were observed by the few walking to the 1 toilet in the middle of the night.
• Kieren, captain on the 'October Storm', brought everyone over with 0 additional RSPB boat trips within the 'See the Spoonbills' trips on the same weekend.
• 17 happy visitors and 5 tired volunteers left the island on the 11 August 2013, hoping to return someday to this remarkable place on the Suffolk Coast.