Up, and after a quick bit
of brekkie Lisa and Earle were on the doorstep. We got into the car
and set off to Deal. The plan for the day was a geocaching quest.
Something like Dungeons and Dragons or NeverWinter Nights, but in
real life. We met up with six other members of the Kent Geocaching
Facebook group and set off. I'd been looking forward to the event,
but must admit to having been a bit wary of who else might be coming
with us. But I had no need to have been concerned. All of our fellow
questers were likeable types and were good company. Not a "normal
person" was in sight.
The idea for the quest
was that we would be given a location to find a geocache in which was
a clue, a question and a choice of where to go next. At the next
point we would find another clue, another question and another
choice of where to go next. Sometimes we would have challenges on the
way. At one point we had a run-in with an executioner, and at another
point we got mugged for our amulet of health. I contributed to the
team's efforts by answering the riddle "What is greater than
god, worse than the devil. the rich don't want it, the poor have it,
and if you eat it you will die". The only fly in the
ointment was that one of the GPS positions we were given was wrong.
After an hour;s searching and ten of us finding nothing we eventually
contacted the chap who'd set the quest only to find that our position
was wrong by about thirty yards.
The instructions said
that if we made the right choices we'd walk three miles; if we chose
poorly we'd walk eight. Those who know how to use their GPS equipment
better than me assured me we walked just under ten miles. But
eventually (after six and a half hours) we got to the final
cache and solved the quest.
It was a really good fun
day out in the sunshine; having fun playing a silly game, meeting new
friends. Really must do it again. There's photos
of the day here.
We slowly made our way
back to the cars, said our goodbyes, and seeing how we were only half
a mile from the sea front we drove down for a quick bit of fish and
chips. And with some power left in the smartphones and a couple of
hours of daylight left we thought we'd check out Walmer for
geocaches. We found a dozen...
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