I woke feeling rather
rough. This bug is certainly taking its toll. I checked out the
Internet over brekkie to see that not a lot had changed overnight
We collected "Gordon
Tracy" and set off for deepest Surrey for today's
geo-mission. Every week when we go on these walks we invite loads of
people, but for all sorts of reasons people are often busy, or have
done the walk before. Today was different; a lot of people were free.
Fifteen of us (and three dogs) met up in Leigh. We didn't take
long to boot and gaiter up, and soon we were off on a geo-stroll. We
found the first two caches without incident, but at the third cache
we suddenly realised one of our number was missing. Having just been
loudly announcing that I liked going caching mob-handed because the
crowds act as a magnet to Fudge it was only to be expected that it
was my dog that had vanished. I eventually found him down a hole two
fields away. He got seriously "crumpled at" for
that.
As we walked there was
one cache that I could see from ten yards away. However those ten
yards were "up"; and we had a very entertaining ten
minutes getting everyone on top of a nearby pill box to get to the
cache.
Half way round (after
conceding defeat and loggng one DNF) we took a little detour for
a church micro and some lunch. Again my dog disgraced me. To see him
looking at the other picnic-ers you would thnk I hadn't fed him for
six months.
Only one GPS unit was
left behind (and that not for long), and just as we were
coming to the end of the walk I had a close encounter with a deer. He
was too quick for me to photograph though.
Our last cache of the
walk was Church Micro #3. There's thousands of caches in a nationwide
series associated with churches. The one up the road from me is
#1967. We ended our walk today at #3.
And having said our
goodbyes four of us then went on to the Holy of Holies; Church Micro
#1. There's no denying I was expecting something akin to St Peter's
Basilica; I wasn't disappointed.
I took over fifty photos
today. I've
put them on-line. It was a good walk today; and I really liked
going mob-handed. I hope we can do that more often...
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