I was again up and
watching telly at 3am before going back to bed for a bit. I'm not
sure if this is a good or bad thing really. I got up properly just
after 8am and had a quick look-see on line. A new geocache had gone
live only a mile down the road. I *could* have gone chasing
after it but I didn't. It will come in handy for filling up this
calendar challenge thingy.
We had a spot of brekkie
and put the leads on the dogs. Fudge was leaping about only too ready
to go out; Sid actually went and hid; he did *not* want to go.
But he had no choice, and soon we were driving down to Battle in
Sussex.
Today's geo-walk was all
a little bit last minute. We had pondered on where to go; even
pondering on not going out at all. We had vaguely planned on going to
the geo-event in Imber some
one hundred and thirty miles away, but didn't fancy going on our own.
It was rather late last night that we decided to have a mooch round
Ashes Wood in Netherfield. We put out an invite but most people had
made other plans (as you would expect). And overnight half of
those who were coming dropped out. But we went ahead anyway, and had
a really good stomp around the mud with our friends Gordon, Stuart
and Beth and pups Norton and Gilly. We found all of the dozen
geocaches in the woods, and saw some rather beautiful scenery as we
walked. Although we didn't see any deer we found deer tracks. It was
odd that the dogs were all doing their own thing until such time as
we found the deer tracks. It was then that the dogs wanted to tank
through the tracks and destroy them.
The walk was billed as
one of three kilometres; I guessed that would take us about an hour
and a half; what with all the mud it took us two hours. Once back at
the cars we said our goodbyes. I had formulated a plan to spend the
afternoon walking round Battle itself hunting down elusive sandwich
boxes but instead we decided to drive home picking up a cache or two
as we went.
We took a rather
circuitous route (i.e. went the wrong way) home via Heathfield
picking up ten extra caches as we went including one I've suggested
should be archived. I didn't really want to post a "Needs
Archiving" log.... it wason a good hide near a rather odd
obelisk. If not for geocaching I've never have known this object was
there.
But...
According to his profile
the chap who hid the thing lives a hundred miles away and hasn't
logged into geocaching dot com for two and a half years. When I found
it today the cache itself was running with water. The contents were
mouldy and stank. There are already thirteen "Needs
Maintenance" logs on that cache.
This *really*
doesn't give a good impression for the hobby. Perhaps with it gone
someone closer might be able to replace it?
As I usually do I
took a few photos whilst we were out. Once we got home (and
got the mud hosed off of the dogs) I put them on-line, and as the
dogs snored we slobbed in front of the telly for a while. "er
indoors TM" went off to the bowling
Chrimbo do, and (for want of a better offer) I sat with the
dogs and watched more telly.
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