The rules for yesterday's
pub crawl was that moustaches were compulsory. Having grown a full
set of chops for the event, there's no denying that I was glad to
scrape it off this morning. There are those who sport beards and
moustaches. I generally don't; I can't say that I like having it.
Shaving every day can be a bit of a chore, but personally I'd rather
that than have the beard.
I did feel a little less
than one hundred per cent this morning, but a few cups of coffee
sorted me out. I checked the weather forecast and saw that the day
was going to be overcast and showery. We decided to go on with the
planned walk, and dressed accordingly. In the end we were right to
have done so; there was no rain until we were driving home. The day
was lovely.
Having collected Gordon
Tracy we drove up to Farningham, parked up, put on waterproofs and
set off on our walk. Initially we were on a rather busy main road,
but not for long. We were soon in full countryside, speaking with a
rather tame sheep who came up to us to be petted. This sheep was very
friendly, and wasn't at all bothered by the dogs. Mind you Suzy is
well behaved, annd since his experience with the electric fence a
couple of weeks ago "Furry Face TM"
is rather cautious around sheep.
We saw a couple of
alpacas in with the sheep, we saw some sort of large flightless bird
in with the goats; I think it was a rhea, but it might have been an
ostrich. And over a spot of lunch I saw something black and very low
to the ground in the next field which (just possibly) might
have been one of those panthers or pumas that your hear about.
As we went along we found
all of the caches we were after; including two puzzle ones we'd all
solved in the week. I had to supply the vital co-ordinates to the
rest of the party though. Apparently everyone else had worked out the
puzzles using pencil and paper, and the dogs had eaten their homework
(!)
Billed as a three mile
walk, our independent sat-nav technologies recorded the distance as
being five miles. Geo-walks are always longer than the description
claims; not that this is a bad thing.
With the walk done we
still had an hour or so spare, so we drove into Eynesford where we
collected another puzzle cache that we'd all solved iin the week;
even if the dogs had again eaten everyone else's homework. In the
village we met some fellow cachers who told us that a certain cache
was missing, and advised us not to bother looking for it. I saw that
as something of a challenge, and sure enough after a short search we
had the elusive film pot in our hands.
By 3.30pm we could feel
spots of rain, so having exhausted the area of unfound sandwich boxes
we came home. As we got closer to home we could see there had been
very heavy rain at home today. We'd been rather lucky with the
weather.
And as always there are
photos
of the day on-line. the geocache series we did today was called
"Kent Views", and as you can see there were some
wonderful views to be enjoyed.
Once home we had a rather
good bit of egg and chips for tea, and as "er indoors TM"
set off for the Sunday bowling I mucked about on-line. I was rather
frustrated to find that during the week I'd solved a dozen
geo-puzzles and that today we'd not been that far away from them. Oh
well, we were planning to go back to the area anyway...
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