I slept like a log last
night and woke a little while before the alarm went off. I really
ached; I can't imagine why. I then wasted a few minutes trying to
find what I'd done with a coat, then watched Bill Oddie presenting a
documentary on velociraptors. Mr Oddie was surprised that pretty much
everything that everyone knows about dinosaurs was actually made up
in the imagination of the people who made "Jurassic Park".
I thought that was well
known.
Being Sunday we did our
usual Sunday geo-thing. We collected "Gordon Tracy"
and set off; this time for Green Street Green. Green Street Green is
a village in North Kent in the general area of Bromley. We arrived,
and soon met Mr Moonstone (it's a geo-thing). Before finding
our first geocache we failed on two others; not an auspicious start.
But the rain eventually stopped and we had a really good walk.
We started off walking
the GSG geo-series; mostly straight-forward geo-easy. About half way
round we saw there was another little geo-loop. Since we were passing
we thought we'd do that loop; it would only add half an hour to our
day.
I should have done my
homework better; that little geo-loop only had half a dozen caches
but there were some really fiendish hides; some tree-climbing, and it
took us to a HUGE redwood tree.
With our little
geo-diversion done we got back onto the planned route. As we walked
through the golf course we joked about how funny it would be if the
dogs ran off with a golf ball. Suzy-pup then did just that. The
golfers were really nice about it; but then with good reason. I am
assured that the rules of golf allow for dogs; if a dog moves the
ball it has to be played from where the dog drops it. Suzy-pup had
carried the ball thirty yards from the rough onto the green.
As we walked on we had
spectacular views of Canary Wharf, Crystal Palace and The Shard; and
there's no denying I was starting to ache when we got back to the car
after twelve miles of walking.
We'd set out hoping to
find as many geocaches as we could; we found forty-three. There were
three that eluded us; one for which we couldn't solve the puzzle, and
one we could see but couldn't climb the slippery tree up which it had
been put.
As always I
took a few photos whilst we were out.
Once home we had a rather
good but of curry for dinner and caught up with stuff recorded onto
the SkyPlus box. Whilst my dog snored...
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