I took myself off to bed
around 11pm last night. There's no denying that I would have slept
better had a certain Patagonian Tripe-Hound not jumped onto my chest
and started gnawing his bone at 1.30am. And much as I like my furry
associate, I can think of others whom I would prefer to lick me awake
at 6.30am. But all things considered I had a reasonable night's
sleep.
I watched an episode of
Family Guy over brekkie and checked out the Internet. Not a lot had
happened overnight. And so we set off on today's excursion. Pausing
only briefly to pick up Gordon Tracy and another dog we made our way
to Camer Park.
We'd seen there was a
geo-series in Camer Park, but the walk listed was only one of a
couple of hours. Patagonian Tripe-Hounds need more of a walk than
that. So a quick peruse of the map showed that there was another
nearby geo-series. Together the two would make a good walk for the
day. I'd contacted people who'd done the route recently and found it
wasn't too muddy, so I thought I'd give my new walking shoes (from
Cotton Traders) their first proper try-out. I was quite impresed
with them.
And so on with our walk.
The weather forecast had predicted light rain showers. It hadn't said
anything about hail. The hail was quite heavy. It only hailed a
couple of times; but that was enough. The weather today was very
changeable; going from bright sunshine to heavy rain (and back
again) in minutes. We sat down for lunch in glorious sunshine and
as we ate we watched the black clouds come over. One minute we were
basking in the sun's glow, the next minute I was putting on coat and
gloves.
We saw pigs whilst we
were out. There were goats in a field, and there were pigs
rummaginging in the woodlands next to that field. I don't know if the
pigs were supposed to be there, or if they were wild pigs, but they
seemed rather sweet (as pigs go). And as we walked round we
met up with Chris and Scarlett who were doing the loop in reverse
order. it was good to have them with us as I found what I later
realised was my 2900th geocache.
We had a really good
outing. We found some really clever puzzle ideas; but none of the
hides were too difficult (I hate it when cache owners don't seem
to want their hides to be found). I experimented with not logging
as I went (to save battery power) and it worked to a degree. I
tried using my camera rather than my phone (again to save battery
power) and used it to take
a few photos whilst we were out. Let me know if the photos are
any better or worse than what I usually produce.
We could have gone on and
collected a few puzzle caches we'd solved previously, and we could
have gone on to get one cache which was some way up a tree. But time
was pushing on, and with the threat of the car park being locked at
5pm we decided to call it a day and come home. After all we'd been
out for over six hours and had been up hill and down dale for nearly
ten miles.
Once home I bathed my
dog, and with all of the fox poo hopefully removed he then settled
down and snored for the rest of the evening. I set about washing my
onesie. I do like that onesie.
I then watched "The
Great Escape"; I say "watched"; I missed
the first half-hour. I always do. I must see the film from the
beginning at some stage...
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