February 27th 2010 Last night had been a celebratory indian takeaway and a bottle of nice Italian wine.....today it was back to business....working our way to that seemingly impossible target of 100 cache finds.
Josh had finished playing with his toy snake meaning we were out the door by 9.30 (a new record in itself) ready to drive to the Winshill district of Burton on Trent. Interesting read on this area http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=12371 The first cache took us to Winshill Water Tower and for the life of me I can't seem to find out why they built this tower in 1907, it is in the middle of a very nice surburban road and cannot see a direct reason for this being here.
The cache itself took us a short while to find, and we were on our way onto the next one. Now this second cache was approached with some fear, Mr Shiltonpig had done his homework and had been able to find out that specialist tools would be needed for the cache.
Mr Shiltonpig had been carrying many many tools in team Shiltonpigs backpack ready to tackle this cache. Ironically when we got to the cache, not only did we spot it straight but we didn't need any tools what so ever to be able to access it which was great. Certainly one of the best caches in terms of innovation, we have yet to come across. The East Midlands caches certainly give you a chance to exercise those grey cells that it for sure.
We have never been big fans of Burton on Trent for some strange reason, but the views that this particular cache offers is w
ell worth it. You can see the entire town and we would never have thought that the views would be that good as they were up here. It was at this precise moment we met a lovely lady who had lived in this area for 26 years, she told us that on a clear day you can see Dovedale from here....thats pretty impressive that is for sure. She told us about how nice it is in the summer at sunset.
ell worth it. You can see the entire town and we would never have thought that the views would be that good as they were up here. It was at this precise moment we met a lovely lady who had lived in this area for 26 years, she told us that on a clear day you can see Dovedale from here....thats pretty impressive that is for sure. She told us about how nice it is in the summer at sunset.The photo on the left tries to show you some of what you can see, but so often with photos, it doesn't do the area any justice at all. Mrs Shiltonpig was supposed to have captured the horse in this photo as well...I will leave it up to the reader of this blog to decide what you think of her photo skills!!
As we walked further down the path we came across another horse, its a shame we didn't have a carrot, as clearly it wanted more than a stroke on its nose....but Josh loved the horse and was mesmorised by it. Having said that Josh doesn't know the noise a horse makes yet and so he will have to learn that for another time.
The 3rd and final cache took us down an even muddier path and we bumped into the lovely laday again with her dog. We wondered how it was possible to bump into the same woman at exactly the 2 places that caches were hidden...coincidence or was she some kind of geocache spy lol! Anyway it didn't take us long to find the cache...Mrs Shiltonpig claiming the honours for this one.
It was a lovely walk that we carried on right to the end and came out at a cemetary, much to Mrs Shiltonpigs joy. On the way back however we didn't realise just how much uphill it was, and poor old Mr Shiltonpig was carrying the lump known as Josh on his back. Pretty muddy too on the way back and poor old Mrs Shiltonpig was slipping and sliding all the way back.
This is the reason we go geocaching...an area we never knew about, never would have go and yet has turned out to be a really nice morning!!
Right time for some lunch!
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