Caching and hugging

It was a glorious day today, we were inspired by Autumnwatch to go back to the ancient trees we found last weekend in the New Forest and measure them to enable us to log them.  I also did some research before we went as I knew we would be going past 2 war memorials and I was positive that there were geocaches near each. My hubby lost friends serving, so this would be an ideal opportunity to visit and claim the caches too.

The first cache was called “Heart of Stone” and was very near to this memorial near Ibsley.  It was good to get back doing a simple cache and dash. We then continued on a lovely trip through the forest.

  

 

The trees were magnificent as were the  ponies. At least this time we had our daughter with us as she is horse mad. We also visited a Canadian memorial near Bolderwood.  Found the cache “Little Canada”, this was a regular cache, it was good to drop off the Travel Bug I’d collected in Cornwall in the summer, picked up a fantastic Geocoin for us to move on, not going to leave it so long this time before we go caching again.

The trees were huge in the forest near Burley, we’ve recorded the sizes of 4 trees, luckily hubby had a tape measure in the car so we didn’t need to do any tree hugging, but even with our best intentions, we still needed to hug to pass the tape onto the next person. Some of the trees were over 6 metres in diameter, therefore according to the autumnwatch guide, you convert to centimetres and divide by 2 and that gives you the age of the tree, over 300 years old truly ancient trees.

It was brilliant to have so much time together in the beautiful forest together, all that fresh air it certainly revitalises.