Thursday, 20 September 2007

2 more under the belt - and both Paperless!

schnarff was happy to meet up on the way home from work yesterday to do the new Cache. It had been logged earlier by Butttercup, who had also bagged some of our Caches :D Her log said she'd turned down the road the Cache was on, so I did a little investigating, and realised there was another Cache there! It was one of those ones that was just far enough away from home to not really get looked at, but I plugged it into the GPS and the Palm and set off with Kai!

We passed a lost looking person a mile or so back, and so I wondered if it was a Cacher, and seeing as we were still on a TTF possibility we sat on the bench near the Cache instead of waiting in the car! And we sat there, and sat there (at least the rain had stopped)...Kai for once was being very good and kept just sitting down (though the sighs got louder and the grunts and growls got longer!) After about quarter of an hour a silver and yellow Thundercat finally came into view...but why on earth does she have a pillion? Not her!!!

Eventually after about half an hour she turned up, and parked up in the (18" wide) bus stop....only for a blinkin bus to pull up to let someone off *lol* Only one had passed in the half hour, and he hadn't stopped! Ah well, we did the 'it's broken down' routine, and he didn't seem to mind too much!

Whipped out the Palm to show how clever I'd been and schnarff fiddled with that while I sorted out the GPS (not that we really needed it, the Cross was pretty obvious!) Grabbed the Cache nice and easy, and then set off for the other one. Brought it up on the GPS only for it to show in the middle of a river :O yet the Cache listing (on the Palm hehe!) said I didn't need to get wet. As we went down the lane we came across a sign which read 'Road impassable at times of flood' :O

Continued along gingerly, as despite there apparently being parking, it's pretty tricky to turn a bike round in narrow lanes, especially when they're as potholey as this one! Saw the huge parking area, which was unfortunately gravel, so schnarff had to stay on the bike lest it sink...

Happily there was a useful tool which indeed allowed me to get to the Cache location without getting my feet wet. Cheated and used the clue as the GPS was a bit squiffy and schnarff needed the loo. Even with the clue it took some searching, it was pretty dark under the tree cover but I spotted the little blighter eventually!

Tried to convince schnarff it would be fun to do a ride through and get wet, but she wasn't up for it after the bike had been a little skittish earlier (hell, there's a sign that says 'slippery, bicycles use OEVQTR' so I don't think I'd risk it on a bike with plastics!) Maybe we'll have a go on the XJs if we ever get a hot summer *lol*

So there we are. Half hour Caching, two grabbed, all done Paperlessly, and one TTF to boot! Hurrah!

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