Although there was was no
frost on the car this morning, last night was rather cold. Incredibly
cold. And I was tired. In the past I've done geo-walks of twenty
miles, of one hundred caches. But nothing was quite as wearing as
yesterday's eleven icons in one day challenge.
After everyone had
(eventually) emerged from their pits and brekkied we went for
a little geo-stroll. Nineteen geocaches, all letterbox hybrids. All
with simple puzzles to solve, and all with a rubber stamp insiide. We
solved all the puzzles and got all the stamps.
By now it was mid day, so
we made our way back to the Hop Farm where the Mega - Event was in
full flow. Over one thousand people were in attendance. There were
cachers from all over the UK, from Europe, and people from Africa
and America. Even My Boy TM" had come
over for the day. There were all sorts of things going on, goodies to
buy, and (literally) tens of thousands ot trackables to be
found.
We then went back to the
Lab Cache woods and finished off doing the first ten of these
available to people in the UK, and having said godby to Dave we then
sat about activating our new trackables. Not an easy task on a phone.
Pausing only briefly to
laugh at someone stuck in the mud (so much for a 4x4) we drove
into Padddock Wood for some shopping, then drove out to Maidstone
for the Barn Dance event. It was here that we realised we'd acheived
minor celebrity status; not only had I obtained a series of groupies
(that was a result), but we weren't the only people to have
tried for eleven icons in one day this weekend. However we were among
a small minority of people who had been successful.
I'd seen this challenge
coming and had specifically not done the Tunbridge Wells webcam
before, and had solved puzzles in advance and had picked the easiest
Earthcache and virtual. Others hadn't been quite so pro-active.
With hog roast scofffed
we drove back to camp and sat round the camp fire for a while.
Others stayed longer than I did. I was falling asleep and soon went
to bed. I was tired out...
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