"Neigh"bours

"Evil Horse" looking calm

 Saturday April 24th 2010

Go get some tissues and make it a big box, we have a tale that may upset even the most hard nosed geocacher amongst you. Yes folks the horse that appears in the photo to the left moments before nearly ended Mr Shiltonpigs and Joshs life. The 3 of us had been minding our own business walking away from the cache near a massive crows nest....when all of a sudden Mr Shiltonpig with a recently awakened Josh turned and looked at a noise. The horse (which from hearby in, will be called "Evil Horse") was galloping, charging with

team Shiltonpig find their 1st anaconda

 foam coming from its mouth. Mr Shiltonpig saw his life flash before his eyes (all 21 years of it) while Josh looked on bemused. But just when it all looked doomed evil horse ground to a halt, and then pressed the two of them in against a fence, trapping them. Mrs Shiltonpig was carrying the food bag and with some quick thinking took out an apple and threw it in the direction of the horse. Evil horse didn't move at the sight of an apple, but looked away for a second. Crying and screaming Mr Shiltonpig ran quickly to the fence and jumped over hoping that the evil horse wouldn't follow. This left poor old (hey-less of the old Mrs Shiltonpig cries)

"Trig"onometry

by herself, what happened next will make you shocked. Evil horse had a friend (hearby in called evil horse 2") who came in also to trap Mrs Shiltonpig. Mrs Shiltonpig was trembling with fear, she let out a little squeal...was this the end of Mrs Shiltonpig??? No, backed in with nowhere to go, she had one choice left...to climb the fence (no easy task as she is the size of a hobbit). But I am pleased to say she made it and even found the time to stroke the horse. But evil horse had one last trick up its sleeve, Mrs Shiltonpig came out in an allergic reaction 30 minutes later on her hands. Yes folks its been quite an adventure today.

Australia or Derbyshire??

Yes today, we had been on a 4 mile round trip collecting 11 caches in the area of Linton. Now I am sure that when you think of Linton you think of chocolates (linky poo) but we were very very disappointed to find out that there were no chocolates on offer today. In fact the series focused on beer ...as nearby Burton is famous for its beer. Each cache had a picture of a locally brewed beer which represented a number, collect the numbers for a bonus cache. This series of caches would take us on a journey to see an anaconda the length of 3 fields, see the photo above for proof. We also found our 2nd trig point after finding our 1st in Rutland a short while ago.

Mrs Shiltonpig crowing as usual

One of the more unusual sites on this particular caching journey was a massive crows nest, it covered pretty much the whole woodland and you could hear them for miles....if you click on the photo you might be able to see the nests. We wondered if there were in partnership with the two evil horses....but then we may just be too paranoid for our own good.

The caches take you through fields, an entire wood and 3 lakes. The one lake had more fisherman than the North sea...and we even saw one catch one (Captain Birds eye won't be pleased). As always we didn't find one cache and had to guess the co-ords for the final and bonus cache, but after surviving the evil horse attack, we were more than capable. So all in all its been quite a journey and one that would be better had the chocolates or beer been at the end...but we can't have everything. So we sat down by the lake ate some cheese and salami sandwiches and tried to stop Josh 1 million times from trying to jump in....(he is poorly today...so spare him a thought..poor wee thing).