MERKINCH youngsters are in the middle of an exciting programme of outdoor activities, swimming and indoor sports, over the school summer holidays.

Outdoor activities which have included canoeing, climbing, abseiling and raft building, will develop a little further over the lastfew weeks of the holidays with participants actually going white water rafting – not on their own rafts tho' ! – and taking canoes on to local lochs and possibly rivers, all with qualified instructors to look after them.

The indoor activities are moving on to trampolining and a little more time on the climbing wall at the sports centre, as well as the usual basketball, uni-hoc, football, rounders and badminton.