Another
very restless night; when I wasn’t wrestling with the puppy my sleep was
harried by nightmares about an old school friend who had turned up out of the
blue wanting me to look after a pet tiger; in my dreams he’d heard about the
puppy and so thought I was used to wild animals.
I
had a little look at Facebook over brekkie. There were some photos from last
night’s birthday party. There weren’t any more photos from the dog party though.
For all that everyone was taking photos, only me and "er indoors TM"
had posted any on-line. Such a shame.
We
got ourselves and the dogs together and drove out to Flimwell. There are two
series of geocaches around Bewl
Water reservoir, and they made the basis of a rather good walk. In a novel
break with tradition we arrived at the designated car parking space first, but
soon our pals arrived, and we set off on a rather good walk. And after a couple
of hours we were back at the car. We then drove a mile or so down the road and
had another good walk.
We
followed well laid out routes through beautiful countryside. As we walked we
saw horses and cows and sheep and chickens. And a pair of buzzards circling
over the chickens. We also bumped into friends who were walking the cache
series in the correct order (we were
going backwards), and met other cachers too. We rarely meet any other
hunters of Tupperware when we are out; today we met loads.
I
rather liked the stretches of the walk alongside the Bewl water reservoir; it
was good to watch the people boating and fishing. Both dogs had a paddle, and
we had a really good laugh at the silly normal people who’d walked into the mud
and lost a welly boot. We spent a very entertaining ten minutes watching them
trying to retrieve the boot. There is nothing as entertaining as other people’s
misfortunes, is there?
Mind
you the mud was probably there because reservoir did seem to be rather empty.
Cache-wise
it was a good walk – caches were in good repair. The given co-ordinates were mostly
spot-on; I thought a couple were a tad awry but helpful hints made for
reasonably quick finds. I quite liked the ducks on the caches.
There
was one that eluded us though; despite a thorough search we had to give up.
We
did the first series of caches as the C.O. had intended; however looking at
Google street view yesterday had put me off parking at the suggested parking
location for the second part of the day. I don’t like parking in a pub car park
and then clearing off for hours, and the street parking looked tight.
So
we parked at cache #24 which was half a mile down the road from the start. We
walked in reverse order which cleverly had us arriving at the pub toward the end
of the walk.
Whilst
sitting in the beer garden at the end of the day we had a phone call from
friends we’d met earlier in the day and told them about our DNF. They’d found
the cache…
I
dozed much of the way home; once home "er indoors TM"
boiled up some pizza, then went bowling. I posted up some photos
I’d taken during our walks today, and then tried to set up a Netflix account.
*Tried* was the operative word here;
it wouldn’t accept any form of payment I offered…
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