True Stories - Shimelle Class

I've decided to try and improve my writing skills. I know I will probably get sucked into my work as usual, but the thoughts there and you never know when you will get a spare moment and be able to make use of all the wonderful materials Shimelle always creates as part of her classes.

Caching record making

A great day today and a special way to mark 10/10/10 – those of us that geocache are trying to set a new record with the most people caching in one day, it only needed one cache to be recorded per registered user. We haven’t cached since last November, so this was a great chance to get back out in the fresh air and see some new places.

It was a chance for hubby and me to cache on our own as our daughter was at a rehearsal. I thought I was only going to get one cache in, but the weather was magnificent, 20 deg C in the middle of October, a very warm and sunny day, we did the first cache and were once again hooked.

We tried to find a cache along a lane where we had previously found a cache, unfortunately when we got near the cache there was a pickup truck sat near the cache and their were workers near it, we decided not to try and jeopardise the location, so we decided to try that one again later.  We were amazed at the pigs that are now in-situ along the lane, last time the fields were full of maize and sunflowers.

Our first successful cache was a cache and dash, I ended up lying on my tummy hanging over the edge of a bridge to retrieve the cache, the retrieve was easy, getting it out safely without dropping it in the water was very difficult, but I got there in the end. I signed the log and hubby photographed and replaced the cache. We discovered some amazing holly trees whilst we were there.

Having got the bug back, we headed off into the New Forest and were surrounded by ponies, and then we had to dodge some muggles and get to the cache via a circuitous route, after some careful deduction, hubby spotted the resting place and we signed the log. The ponies came to investigate what we were doing, it was brilliant.

It is really hard trying to identify the next cache to go for. Eliminating the multi-caches as these would take too long, and then checking that the traditional caches weren’t going to be too far to walk due to the blisters.  Hubby was chuffed when the next cache I selected was along the old railway track, just as well he was doing the cache with me as I couldn’t have reached it as it was about 1.7m high.  Along the route there were loads of different funghi to see.

I managed to walk over 3 miles this afternoon, the legs are feeling it now, but lots of sun, fresh air and it has helped me to get rid of this horrid cold.

Remember though that I must wear socks in my trainers next time, to prevent the blisters, then I can cache more.