Where are we going? geocaching!

Unfortunately i was given an earworm for the day by lecielrouge from Dora the Explorer! Hence the title!!
We all met up for a day of geocaching. It was quite ambitious [for us!], with 9 planned caches in 2 separate spots, with a picnic inbetween. The day was fab, nice and warm, but not too hot. the countryside idyllic, and great company for both adults and kids. [SB and P were partic cute]

first stop was a previous fail to find, once by us and lecielrouge together [and we had 2 shots at it that time] and another time by lecielrouge on their own. We were absolutely determined this time! we paced, measured, scouted and scoured… and still didn’t find it!! ARGH! The nettles had even been strimmed! We did, however, find lots of funghi and insects! As part of our camouflage from ‘muggles’ we did do some educating on funghi and insects! so, somewhat disheartened we went to the next one.

This one was a lovely walk along the river, across a couple of bridges to a little island. the streams were v clear, and we saw some perch and just looked idyllic. i said to mrlecielrouge – i would prob hide it just there on the other side, and there it was! fab!! and even better for the girls, a tat exchange one! we placed in 2 travelbugs, mine and vivien’s – which we hope will visit Italy, USA and Canada, as places she had plans to go back to. if her children are interested, we hope to show them where her keyring visits. I dunno, it just seemed a good idea to have something non emotionally invested that could open a discussion with her in it. if it doesn’t, well my kids are looking forward to seeing where they will all go! I nearly led mrslecielrouge across to the wrong next island by misremembering where the next cache was, so we went across the ‘salmonweir bridge’ i am pretty sure no salmon here?? saw a fab spiders web, and i realised just in time to be going back the right way when pulled up on it by daddybean and the GPS!

kids starting to bemoan the lack of sustenance in their belly, so had a picnic by the historic mill. kids running around having fun together and building dens. BB was quite tired and cuddly tho, so had a long snuggle, and did wonder whether we would do the third cache,

SO third cache across the watermeadows, but a sturdy path to a magnetic micro on the bridge. found without too much angst, and more importantly, without wet feet or muddyness! All v proud of selves, and happily came back towards car. some of us got back much sooner, having been chatting away, and not realised kids had stopped to feed the cows – giggle!

A move of venue, and first stop the supermarket for far cheaper icecream! We then bailed out of doing the supermarket cache as we were way too conspicuous and thought most likely to be referred to police for suspicious activity around the bike racks! we didn’t count that as a fail to find, as more a fail to look. So the proper first was near a pub, again a magnetic micro, fairly swiftly found. A walk along the river to the next, and this one was a failure to read the opening times of the museum rather than a ftf :blush:

Better luck with the next magnetic micro whilst girls swirling, twirling and chasing on the nearby grass then re-enthused, we trekked off to another tat exchange one, found a geocoin for the first time – so big! and dropped off another 2 travelbugs of ours, SB’s ELF and BB’s The Lizard. I don’t know if ppl can see those links? anyway, will upload pics of the travelbugs shortly…

Final micro of the day in a disused cemetery, found far more quickly than anticipated. it is overlooked from 2 sides by houses, and so completely impossible to tell whether we were observed, and it is hard for 8 to look inconspicuous! SO we didn’t attempt 2, and failed to find 1, so we counted that as a score of 6/7.

The children persuaded us all v easily to come back to ours for tea and more play/chatting/baby rabbit adoration, and so a really lovely day, thankyou lecielrouge