I was up with the lark
today, and as I was pootling, "My Boy TM"
arrived to collect his fishing tackle. I'm not quite sure why he
keeps it here. Probably something to do with the foul smelling baits
he keeps here.
We got ourselves
organised, rallied the local troops, and set off on our travels.
Bedgebury Forest is only an hour's drive away. On the plus side it is
a lovely place for a walk, with about a hundred geocaches relatively
close together. On the minus side the parking is ridiculously
expensive. However if you know where to go, you can park for free. We
found out where to park.
At the lay-by we met up
with other members of the Kent Cachers, and a dozen of us set off on
a really good walk. Old friends and new friends. I got chatting with
a young lad who made a point of helping me walk Fudge. A really good
lad. He'd never heard the idea of keeping quiet when you find a cache
and watching others struggle, but he soon got the idea, and "smug
moded" like a good'un.
Fudge was a little
problematical at times. He did run off twice, and he wasn't at all
impressed with the joggers and the off-road bikers, and had to go
back on his lead a few times because of that. But those little
episodes were the exception rather than the rule; he was mostly good.
And the caching was good.
Some cachers seem to delight in hiding geocaches which are frankly
impossible to find. This was not the case today. Some were tricky,
but we found all that we went for, and found thirty two caches in the
forest on a walk which covered eight miles and took us some five
hours. One person found their seven hundredth, two (including "er
indoors TM") reached their nine
hundredth, and I got my total over the one thousand one hundred mark,
ending the day with a cache total of one thousand, one hundred and
thirty one caches. There's photos
of the day on-line. And loads more caches to be done. Must go
back again soon.
And so home, where I
slobbed in front of the telly. And made a start on the laundry. If I
am going to iron it tomorrow I need to wash it tonight...
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