I was up with the lark
raring to go, and was on Tony's doorstep before 8am. We did a quick
trip to Tesco and then set off to Brighton. Over a spot of brekkie
I'd checked my emails and had seen that (for no apparent reason)
six new geocaches had gone live within striking distance of where we
were planning to camp. As we pulled in to Stanmer Park I went for one
of them. Having been published at 7.30am I wasn't expecting to be
First to Find, but I was. The cache had remained unfound for nearly
three hours. Wouldn't happen in Kent! I suspected that the other five
caches were at that time still waiting for someone to claim FTF, but
I was happy with one; I'm not greedy.
We had the offer of bacon
butties with friends in Brighton, but reluctantly had turned the
offer down. It takes quite a while to set up camp, and so we cracked
on. The Rear Admiral arrived after only a couple of minutes (complete
with "Daddies Little Angel TM" and
Sid), and we soon had our tents up. It wasn't long before the
rest of our party arrived, and we soon had our camp together.
A spot of baguette for
lunch, a quick kite-fly, and then I went for a little drive with
Dave. He was going to look at buying a new car and there was a
particularly tricky geocache nearby that was giving him grief, He
wanted my expert skills (!) to help find it. I was no help at all,
but Rhiannon (aged nine) came up trumps. Whilst we were out
and caching I picked up another First to Find; this one some eight
hours after it had gone live.
Back to base, and with
most of the crew together we scoffed tea, and then went for a little
wander. This was our twelfth year at Brighton Kite Festival, and we'd
never before gone for a walk in the nearby woods. And we picked up
one or two geocaches as we went. After all, they were our waymarkers.
Without them we wouldn't have a walk.
Once more back to base
where everyone had assembled. I cracked open the home brew. Quite
good. We had a pint or two of the stuff, and then a bottle or two of
port. I went to bed shortly after midnight feeling definitely the
worse for wear.
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