Lake Placid

Giant Crocodile eats geocachers

 Monday May 3rd 2010

Of course no one believes team Shiltonpig when we say we see ceratin things, for example some geocachers mocked us when we said the other week we found Bigfoot. We were hurt and disappointed by such unfair accusations....so we finally have proof of a giant crocodile that roams Nottingham and eats children and has been known to eat a geocacher or two. Some of you may have seen this film Lake Placid, but trust us the photo to the left does not even begin to do justice to the size of this crocodile!

Bendy bendy Mr Shiltonpig

We were of course in Nottingham in a place called Colwick country park. The official guide says and I quote "Colwick Country Park is a delightful area to walk with or without your dog"...well Mrs Shiltonpig brought Mr Shiltonpig along and we will leave it at that.Of course this didn't stop Mr Shiltonpig from posing at every opportunity and despite the fact the rest of the family were being run over by a crazed driver trying to get into her home, Mr Shiltonpig go the photo he wanted. Some people have noticed that the weather in the UK is not the best in the world, today was such an example. We came equipped for a mild spring day and instead we

team Shiltonpigs 2nd home...nice isn't it?

should have packed for a day at the arctic. It was absolutely freezing, so cold that Joshs snot (yes, I just used the word snot in our blog) froze over. There are a series of around 15 caches around the park, and just as we passed this fine hotel to the left, the heavens opened up and these hailstones fell from the sky....honest. Well we didn't know what to do, so we dived into the nearest trees, which was easy as we were in a wood and put up our golf umbrella. Josh started to scream as we put the plastic cover over his pushchair and for what seemed like 1000 years, it hailed and hailed and hailed. At the end we had built this.

Mrs Shiltonpig drinks herself silly!

The caches in this park were mainly devious, we even came across one of those evil nanos, that we always go on about. When we weren't getting chased by crocodiles or giant hailstones, we were finding micros across the park....I have to say that when we got about half way around the lake, Mrs Shiltonpig conducted herself in the most unladylike behaviour, she pulled out several crates of wine, sat by a fence, next to the cache and started drinking (she claims, that being married to Mr Shiltonpig drives her to it). The mess she made was awful. Mr Shiltonpig really thinks that it was because 2 of the caches were in trees that required you to be taller

Mrs Shiltonpig is in there somewhere!

than 5 feet. And as we all know Mrs Shiltonpig is 3 feet 2 inches tall....(similar to a hobbit, but hobbits have less hairy feet). 3 of the caches were so close to the water that we probably should have hired a boat. But amazingly none of the 3 of us fell in, not even once...we are just surprised that the caches have lasted so long being so close to the water. Though we also imagined that perhaps some of the caches have had mouth to mouth done on them to keep alive. Did we mention the weather today? So when it wasn't raining....it was cold as well, and windy...so windy in fact that the wolf from the 3 little pigs must have been around somewhere.

Little did he know the crocodile was around the corner

 Next to the park is the National Watersports centre (what next the national centre for early music? oh they have already done that ....) and you can hear all the coaches telling their poor petrified students...push, row harder, do 100 press ups. It seemed only fair that we sit down and watch them sweat, while we relaxed eating one of Mr Shiltonpigs amazing picnic sandwiches (have to be eaten to be believed). So if you fancy a walk around a enormous lake that has a geocaching eating crocodile, then we recommend that you come here. If you don't fancy a walk we suggest the M1.