An early start; it had
been suggested that we went off to Haywards Heath for a walk. I was
game, but being a little way away meant for an early start. Three of
us and two small dogs were out of Ashford before 8.30am. I'd not been
to Haywards Heath for some years - in fact the last time I was there
was 29 May 2006 with the kite club when (after an unexpected gust)
a huge Manta Ray kite broke its tether and flew off for nearly two
miles before it was recaptured.
On the way this morning
we drove through the village of Newick - I must admit to a snigger
when I saw the posters for their am-drams. The abbreviation for
Newick Amateur Dramatic Society (N.A.D.S.) which was emblazoned
everywhere really hadn't been thought through.
We parked up shortly
after 9.30am and set off. Had we actually planned our route we would
have found a lot more caches than we did. Instead we rather made up
our route as we went. But it was a good day to be out inn some rather
beautiful scenery. As we walked we saw horned black rams, grey sheep,
oxen, and even some deer. We had an iffy two minutes when Fudge
slipped his lead in a field full of sheep. But he was really good.
His natural reaction was to chase the sheep; which he did. My natural
reaction was to bellow at him; which I did. And the little dog
stopped dead and waited for me to come and get him.
We found total of fifty
four geocaches (and couldn't find a further half-dozen) along
a rather convoluted route off some fifteen miles. We were out for
some nine hours and through the wonders of GPS technology we were
rather amazed to find that we were only actually walking for six of
those nine hours. One third of our time was spent not actually
moving. Obviously we waste far too much time on secret geocacher
rituals and fannying around. We shall have to work on our efficiency
for next time.
And there will be a next
time - there are loads of places to walk in the Hayward Heath area;
Today barely scratched the surface of geocaching along the East/West
Sussex border.
As always there are
photos
of our walk on-line.
We got home just before
9pm and once I'd hosed the mud off of Furry Face, er indoors TM"
went up to the KFC to get tea; it was too late to be cooking.
Chicken, chips and episodes of "Big Bang Theory". It
don't get better than that...
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