Little Quest - Lincolnshire

Josh points to the ducks

 Sunday May 16th 2010

So team Shiltonpig rolled into Lincolnshire county on their 6th leg of a 48 leg little quest. Lincolnshire was not ready for us...well Josh anyway. So what do you think of when you think of Lincolnshire....for me I think of lots of flat land...and lincolnshire sausages....shudders at the remembrance of an undercooked sausage yesterday morning. (Were just glad that Lincolnshire keeps their sausages to themselves). Well this cache adventure took us to a village called Fiskerton. Fiskerton is unusual in the fact that it has a river and 2 canals running alongside

Josh points to the sheep

 it, making it for an rather unusual place. Apparently there are lots of kingfishers here....we only saw the fisher variety...you know the ones, lonely creatures that sit in green macks whatever the weather in the hope they will catch a fish. We arrived at ridiculous o'clock in the morning...yes thats right having a Josh is fatal to your sleeping habits. We were fortunate that we could drive close to the cache, any closer and we would have been in the river! Now the cache takes you to a green and white bridge. This bridge is just a normal run of the mill bridge, albeit it with a lot more green paint on it than others.

Mr Shiltonpig takes one for the team

What was strange is that you would think a bridge would not have too many places to hide a cache, but this was the hardest Little Quest so far for us. It got to the point where we thought we were not going to find it. But Mrs Shiltonpig came to the rescue and calmed down a rather stressed Mr Shiltonpig who had become like a coal miner burrowing into every little corner on the bridge. He had wished that he was the size of Josh who was the perfect height for getting into the nooks and crannies. Can someone please tell us what a cranny is please....with a cherry on????

Wave at us please....

 After the huge relief to find the cache and note down the co-ordinates...we are prepared to sell these co-ordinates for say 1 billion pounds...which at todays exchange rate is now worth 1 rupee. We then admired the view, trying capture your county in one cache is no easy task, and the cache owner bears the stress and pressure of hiding it. This cache however was worthy of a little quest in our humble opinion. You can see for miles in this flat area of the country, we have already mentioned you can see three waterworks (no we are not talking about a bladder!)

Plus it has the added benefit of having the amazing and imposing Lincoln Cathedral in the skyline that must be over 10 miles away and yet still manages to dominate the landscape. The photos may not do the place justice, but this was one of a favourite little quest caches so far and well worth a visit in its own right. If you would like to know more about Fiskerton click on my little linky poo. So far we have knocked up 384 miles on our Little Quest journeys so far. It is with a heavy heart and an empty belly that we leave Lincolnshire. We will be back.....oh yes we will be back!