Day 8 - Perth (Different part this time though)

Like a millstone around your neck

 Saturday July 31st 2010

There was plenty of time away from the Mega event to go and do some caches in the centre of the city as well as head back up to the woodlands in the afternoon. We had got up at the crack of dawn partly due to the fact Josh still hasn't learned that there are hours after 6 am. A short drive to the centre meant that we were tackling caches before 9am. As mentioned many times in this blog one of the best caches we did was in a graveyard....the

Great Gravestones

gravestones in this part of the world are simply sublime. The detail on them is extraordinary and well worth a look. It was here will Mr Shiltonpig was dismally finding the cache that we bumped into "Bertocus Dan" who like us had woken early to do some caching while avoiding the herds that would descend later. He was from Bradford. We had the same idea after we found the cache...go get some breakfast and fortunately there was a Wetherspoons around the corner so we all enjoyed a breakfast. It is worth pointing out that some of the caches we did in the centre were actually on Day 7, but it just seemed more sense to put them all in this post. We were in the centre near St Johns Kirk we bumped into some geocachers from Milton Keynes, we spent an hour doing some of the caches near the riverfront and this is when we came up against a cache known as "only in Perth". We bumped into some geocachers from Norway (who incidentally had been leaving reindeer poo in all the caches locally

Mr Shiltonpig the Kiss ass as usual

...) this now meant that with 3 of us, 4 from Milton Keynes and 3 from Norway were all looking for a cache. None of us found it at all. Had we done some more research we would have found that this cache had been around for several weeks and not 1 person had found it. This was simply because it was so hard to find. It was THE cache of the mega event, nearly everyone we bumped into was talking about it. It seemed that at some point though someone actually found it....goodness knows where it was as we looked everywhere. Josh would have found it if he had been older. Anyway back to Day 8.

Perth Hairdressing?

The other cache that Mr Shiltonpig liked today was "The biggest curler in Perth" the cache description waffled on about hairdressers and when you got there as you see in the photo on the right it was a floral curler from the sport curling. Loads of cachers were there and I was waiting in a queue to sign it. Most surreal, normally the caches we find we are miles away from anybody. While team Shiltonpig were unsure what to make of Perth, the river front is great and we did a few caches on the other side including one on an island on a river. It was here that we bumped into some geocachers from Worcestershire. We caught them signing a cache that I had been unaware of, turns out it was a multi cache and so we technically cheated on finding it....but we are not letting you know which one!! Tut tut team Shiltonpig you are a disgrace to the sport.....(collective heads hanging in shame). After the mega event we then headed to the woodland park again, although parked in a different location. Mrs

A nice little pond in the middle of nowhere

Shiltonpig would like to point out how friendly everyone is up here, the locals always seemed to have some time to be able to talk to you. Probably the best cache of the afternoon took us to see an ordnance survey benchmark which also happened to have amazing views of the Perth countryside. And so our adventures in Perth had come to an end....we didn't know this at the time but it was the last time we would bump into any geocachers while on holiday. But we had more adventures still to come....the holiday was far from over.