Little Quest - Tyne and Wear

Not at actual location

 Thursday August 5th 2010

"Why aye man"....Ant and Dec...Geordieland....Cheryl Cole....yes thats right folks team Shiltonpig have entered the world of Tyne and Wear. Having visited this part of the world many times, we were intrigued as to where the Little Quest cache would be placed. After all when you think of Newcastle upon Tyne you tend to think of a sprawling city (albeit a very nice one). We were stopping in Gateshead and you will not be shocked to find out that it was in a travelodge.

Lets go fly a kite

 The cache took us to an area that in a large way reminded us of home...the National Forest. Reason being was this is reclaimed land, and you can tell if you know where to look. But the good news is that as you walk around, you can hardly think that you are anywhere near Newcastle. For more information on this park, I suggest you click on this link. A short walk to the cache site, then had a small delay as we bumped into one of the many muggles in the area, a dog walker. This created 2 problems, firstly the fact that Josh absolutely loves dogs at the moment and secondly the woman then decided to talk to us for ages. Which to be honest yet again

Is this really Tyne and Wear?

shows why we think Northerners are more friendly...anyway after that lady disappear. We started looking for the cache...Josh was playing up so Mr Shiltonpig had to look alone. Problem was that the co-ordinates kept bouncing and bouncing around. The clue was a little vague and for the life of me I could not find a stone. Then all of a sudden Mrs Shiltonpig shouts up...Mr Shiltonpig rushes towards her expecting to find the cache. Instead they are looking at across the river. And there for the first time ever team Shiltonpig see a Kingfisher in the UK (we once saw some Amazon Kingfishers but thats a long story and we would hate to

Mrs Shiltonpig dragging Josh as usual

 detract from this particular one). It was so bright, thats what was so surprising...sadly we didnt get a photo and sadly it didnt say around for too long. Having said that we will always remember this cache as the Kingfisher cache. Anyway shortly after the Kingfisher Mr Shiltonpig was getting very stressed about finding this cache...and then under a stone he found it! Yay...we made a note of the co-oridnates and made our way back to the car. Mr Shiltonpig has had his camera for 5 years and while there are now phones with higher megapixel capabilities he refuses to upgrade....but he discovered a new feature....the self timing button.

No Kingfishers in site boo hoo

Could have done with this for years....and so from now on hopefully you will get to see more photos of the 3 of us! Perhaps thats not a good thing for you dear readers....but tough...you are going to have to swallow your pride and look at a few more photos of us. So another little quest down and we add a further 112 miles to the journey so far...current total 718 miles...wow that is a long way!  Thanks for reading...

Happy family photo