After a good night's
sleep I was raring to go. And so we went. In total five of us and two
small dogs went in search of plastic boxes.. Firstly we tried for a
First to Find and failed. Mind you that cache went live three weeks
ago and many have tried. It's rated very easy so I'm sure it's gone
missing.
We then moved on to
Pegwell Bay where after a few minutes we found the way to the beach.
Getting to the beach wasn't easy; it was actually a rather scary
descent. Once on the beach we soon found the tunnel we were looking
for, and having tunnel-ratted through some serious mud we found the
geocache we sought.
And whilst the tide was
still low we then hurried round to Botany Bay where we failed to
find a geocache in a tunnel last week. Having spoken with the chap
who'd hidden it we had more of an idea where to look. Well, we had
no idea; all the chap had actually said was that where we thought was
the obvious place was not the place to look at all. And so we did
what we should always do when looking for something. We searched with
open minds; not searching were we thought it might be and ignoring
everywhere else. After a few minutes the elusive cache was in our
hand. I was rather pleased about this cache; there aren't many with
difficulty rating 4/5 and terrain rating 5/5. In fact this was only
the third such I've ever found.
We then moved on to the
main business of the day. Ramsgate. We sheltererd from the rain to
have our picnic. As the rain became torrential we considered going
home. But idiot enthusiasm triumphed over common sense, and the rain
soon stopped anyway. We followed a guided tour of caches around
Ramsgate taking us to sites wheere there used to be tunnels used
for various purposes. We intended tunnel-ratting; but all of the
tunnels had long sence been blocked off. Which was a shame.
At one point we heard a
terrible noise and looked up. It was like something out of a horror
movie. A 747 jumbo-jet was coming right for us. It turned out we
were on the flight approach path for Manston airport.
We found the house in
which Vincent Van Gogh taught in Ramsgate. We walked round the
harbour and as far out as we could. We nearly (but not quite)
got soaked by waves washing over the harbour arm. And when the
fishermen weren't looking "Furry Face TM"
ate some of their lugworms.
We had a really good
walk round Ramsgate. And I took a few
photos whilst we were out.
All too soon it was time
to come home. By 4pm it was nearly dark, and so we came home where I
washed the mud off of my dog who then promptly fell asleep. er
indoors TM" set of bowlling, and having
quickly checked cyber-space I settled down for my Sunday evening fix
of "Jeeves and Wooster". I then followed that up
with episodes of "South Park" annd "Big Bang
Theory" before falling asleep during a documentary about
killer asteroids.
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