After a very quiet Geocaching week, because we both had heavy colds, we ventured out on Sunday for the third Team PADS outing. Patrick had spotted a good sized series on the North side of Doncaster called the KB series, KB being short for Keyboard and used to solve the final-cache puzzle. We took sandwiches for a break somewhere and met up at 10:30.
On the way around the series we popped in to do a cache that was in a now disused power station and for the first time in my life I was up close to some HUGE cooling towers. The winds that appear from nowhere once you are under them are quite amazing, the echoes are quite deafening and the scale quite bewildering. Of course the kids made the most of the echoes and made as much noise as possible.
Another first on this series, believe it or not, was my first ever on-foot crossing of a railway line. I've driven over them of course on real roads, but I've never seen a small countryside foot one. Our route snaked over the line in a few places and at one point we had to wait for a London bound train to pass at considerable speed - as highlighted by the crossing signs warning pedestrians of trains passing "in excess of 100 MPH". Not surprisingly a couple of the kids were quite intimidated by it.
Two new things in one day; if I keep this up someome might think my life is exciting!
The series was a distorted figure 8, with the car being parked centrally, and after completing the larger northern half we decided to call it a day as we would eventually run out of time and light - we pledged to do the second half within the next couple of weeks.
Overall we found 16 caches and did 7.5 miles walking. The weather held out nicely and it was a good day all around.
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