Rewengy

Stuck for cache inspiration Hannah came up with the idea, on our way home from work last night, to do one we'd aborted way back in July (pre-Blog days). This had recently come back up on our radar as the cache owner had just put another cache on the same path - two for the price of one.

Back in July we'd missed a subtle turn in a path and had ended up the wrong side of a river in complete darkness - it was about 10pm. We'd already found two so we aborted that cache and headed home with the thought of returning, and of course we never got around to it. Until now.

This time we, of course, took the turn and headed along the woodland path to an easy find and then continued further along to the new cache - a nano hidden on a metal fence, the fence identical in design to where my "Queen 1" cache is hidden.

Well what a nightmare! We were quickly on location and Hannah actually started in (it turns out) exactly the right spot but we simply couldn't find it. I even spent 20 minutes behind the fence (having simply walked around the end of it 20 feet away) inside 'private property' (and goodness knows why it's private, it's a lump of nothing in the middle of nothing on the outskirts of nowhere.)

We eventually reluctantly phoned-a-friend and Patrick (one of only two previous finders here) directed us back to the correct location but we still couldn't see it. However two minutes scratching around later I found it in the mud underneath. We signed the micro-log and replaced it in the same spot but moved it slightly under the lip of the fence cross-bar to shelter and protect it from the wind and rain and to hopefully help it stay stuck on. Bloody nanos.

It was dark by the time we returned to the car but I still fancied picking up one of Patrick's puzzle caches (Carr Car) that I'd solved a month previously. It was only a mile away as the crow flies, but turned out to be a 3 mile drive. Despite the pitch black the coords were good and Hannah had her hands on it in mere moments.

Three more finds but only just over a mile walking.