We’re in Tenerife, staying with schnarff’s Mum who lives out here, and it’s my birthday. When asked how I want to spend it the answer is obvious…walking, and Caching! We get up early to climb the local mountain, stealing schnarff’s Mum’s dog, Mollie, to keep us company, as Kai is back home in kennels.
A little later we convince schnarff’s Mum to play taxi, and she drives us to the bottom of a steep hill. We take our nephew with us, as he’s had enough of his 3 sisters and we think he’ll enjoy a treasure hunt. Schnarff’s Mum waits in the car. “It’s only 200 yards away” I say, happily. No suncream, no water, and it’s baking. Little did we realise the 200 yards is vertically up! We scramble our way through boulders and prickly plants. Schnarff’s back isn’t too keen, and I slip at one point, scraping my left leg!
Eventually, after about 20 minutes, the terrain eases a little, and we’re on the plateau at the top. Nephew dashes off towards some boulders in the correct direction, and finds the treasure before we even get there! We’re a little disappointed to find no Travel Bugs in the cache, as there were about 6 on the listing! L After more logbook filling and swag swapping (thanks for the swag Mum-in-law!) we take some pics, re-hide the Cache (GCN12Y) and set off back down.
Down is almost worse than up, but we struggle on, burning and gasping for water. Interestingly the human sixth-sense seems to be a pretty good GPS itself – looking at the screen, we automatically took an almost identical route down to our initial climb upwards!
MIL looks happy we’re back down safely, and takes us to a roadside café for a drink, which we all need. Somehow we convince her to drive us another 15 miles to find another Cache (GCMX1T)! This one is near a lovely lighthouse. She’s not been this way before, and again waits in the car for us. The Cache proves to be on far easier terrain, though quite tricky to find, so we get her to come and join us! She finds the Cache for herself, with a little directing, and enjoys looking through the swag and reading the logs. Obviously being a holiday destination there are people from all over the world in the book!
On the way home we explain about TBs and MIL says she’d like to send her Humpty keyring round the world!
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