When a Norman man in the 1100's by the name of Alain de Parrhoet, la Zouch came to what is now known as the region of Leicestershire, little did he know that 900 or so years later that Team Shiltonpig would be searching for some of the most evil caches we have yet come across.
It had snowed 3-4 inches this morning and by some amazement it had melted largely by 1pm, which meant that we could get out and do some caches......
First up was a cache alongside the most dog poo ridden path team Shiltonpig had yet the honour of walking down....and just to top it off we looked and looked and had our first "did not find" of the day.
However next up was a cache by the local museum, the truth be told, we couldn't find this cache either. We looked in all manner of trees and stumps and ivy and even found a box of raffle tickets that we weren't suposed to, but we couldn't find it. We went home, did some research on the net and came back out again....and if you look closely at the photo on the left you will see why we couldn't find it.....this is called a nano cache and surely is the smallest cache we have ever found...can you believe there is actually a rolled up paper log book inside this tiny thing....this was an evil cache and one that had us baffled quite a lot...didn't help with the snow and the fact that the co-ords were slightly off.
Ashby Castle has hosted all manner of famous guests and royalty....Henry 7th and Mary Queen of Scots.....but none are as special and important as the two visitors on the right. The cache at this location was superb, and was definitely in our top 5 of all time. If you look closely at the photo you can actually see the cache, but were not going to tell you every secret that we come across....some things are best left to yourself......plus not sure quite how they fitted a video game into the clue but they did......This was a lovely day and got us walking around the area of Ashby that we had never been to before...we were used to being around the Chinese takeaway and local curry house but never stretched to the castle.
As we started walking through a field to the next cache, we came across a large snowman...we will not repeat what Mrs Shiltonpig said about the snowman when we first saw it, but needless to say Josh was just as impressed as this snowman as the one that I did for him yesterday.
After Mr Shiltonpig had got us lost, we finally came upon the last cache....as before we looked and looked and looked but couldn't find it. When we got home to do more research it didn't help that 3 year olds who were blindfolded had found it, in fact everyone and their grandmother had found it...bar us.
So the "never say never" attitude of team Shiltonpig meant we were back out in the car and heading back out for the third evil cache of the afternoon.
Yes by the grimace on Mrs Shiltonpigs face, you guessed it this was another teeny tiny cache again, magnetic and stuck to something we had checked the first time!!
We have now found 86 caches in total....all shapes and sizes....there is no question about it, the 3 that we found this afternoon were the most evilish devious caches that were known to team Shiltonpig.......
No comments:
Post a Comment