I woke
up shortly after 3.30am and had a tiddle and then lay in bed wide awake.
Realising I was thoroughly sick of laying in bed wide awake I got up and put on
a DVD. The film “Evita” passed the
time until "er indoors TM" got up. As I unloaded
the candle stuff from her car I looked up at the clear sky and saw Orion and
the Pleiades. I thought it was rather early in the year to see them, then I
realised it was 6am. For all that they are winter constellations you can always
see them if you are up early (or late)
enough.
"Furry
Face TM" flatly refused to eat his breakfast; he knew
something was going on today.
We got our stuff together and pausing only
briefly to get a sandwich from the co-op we sent off to Essex. In all honesty I
can’t be more specific than that. Back when we were planning the
twenty-four-hour geo rally I’d seen the cat walk series in Essex on the map and
had thought about walking that series for the rally (till I saw how the points were awarded). I then saw the cat walk
series again when we walked round Hanningford reservoir. Bearing in mind the
distance and that the nights are drawing in, realistically if we didn’t walk it
this weekend we’d have to leave it till next year.
So we made our way to the specified start point
which was somewhere in Essex. We were met by the nice lady who had hidden the
cache series; whenever I walk a big series I generally contact the owner to see
if there are any problems along the way. If there are, I am only too happy to
replace logs or caches or do whatever is needed (after all, other people help me enough). I had every intention of
doing any running repairs with the spares I carry, but the nice lady provided
us with a bag of stuff for maintenance.
Karl, Tracy and Charlotte soon arrived, and we
set off.
I started with a minor disaster with my camera;
I’d left the card in my lap-top. But my phone made for a backup camera. The
walk was a tad fraught at times – there were perhaps one or two too many
pheasants for my Patagonian Tripe-Hound’s nerves. But we had a really good
walk. We saw tree-elves, wagtails, kitty and a snake. My dog did quite a bit of
digging. We took a few wrong turns on the way, but such is life. We did take a
little detour to find the Nag’s Head where a pint of Abbott’s ale and a pint of
Lindy Lou’s Tipple slipped down very nicely.
Cache-wise it was a really good series. The
multis were imaginative, a few tree-climbs, there were quite a few fun caches,
mostly straightforward finds but a couple made us think. There were ammo cans.
And we didn’t have to do any maintenance whatsoever. Billed as a walk of about
eleven miles “Hannah” measured it as
being thirteen miles. The other two sat-navs thought it was twelve miles.
However I would say to anyone thinking of doing
the walk to look out for the nearby “musical
girls” geocaches. We went for a few but couldn’t see how to complete them
without crossing barbed wire.
We got back to the cars just as it was getting
dark; I slept for much (all) of the
way home. Once home I downloaded the piccies from my
phone
– they weren’t too bad. I then put the card back into my camera ready for next
time.
I’m absolutely exhausted…
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