I was up earlier than
most people would normally have been on a day off, but we were on a
mission. Once brekkie was scoffed Steve arrived and we all set off to
Surrey for a day's geocaching. We'd found a series of caches to give
us our furthest west caches and also (possibly) our highest
daily total of caches found.
The Leigh Loop has sixty
four caches, and as we went round we came across half a dozen others
that we tried for. As we walked the weather was incredibly varied,
ranging from glorious sunshine to hailstorms. We met all sorts of
animals. As well as the usual cows, sheep and horses we saw alpacas
and deer too.
Lunch was in the beer
garden of the Three Horseshoes; a pub which is certainly doomed to
closure in the near future if the attitude of the landlord we saw
today is typical of how he conducts himself.
We'd started walking
shortly before 10am, we finished just before 8pm having walked
fourteen miles and having achieved our target of getting our best
ever day's cache count - sixty eight caches found. We failed to find
three. One really wasn't there, one was there (in a log) but
we couldn't find it, and one was in ivy so wasn't worth the effort to
find (!) One cache involved me climbing up into a tree,
another had er indoors TM" being sent
down a tunnel in her welllies.
I found a trackable coin
in one of the caches and (quite frankly) I wish I hadn't.
Within an hour of logging that I now had the coin I got an email
saying "Thank you for picking up our geo coin from LL47....We
look forward to seeing where the coin goes next." from the
coin owner. I then "visited" it to the next dozen
caches that I went to. I came home to find that the coin owner has
deleted all the "visited" logs. What was that all
about?
We got home shortly after
9am, and then in between a rather good tea and episodes of "Big
Bang Theory" I attempted to get my phone's spare batteries
charged up. Geocaching does eat the batteries...
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