June 8, 2004

DR day 2

After the first day of DR work I had another night to spend in the hotel.
The first cache was Snipe on the line on the way back from the office to the hotel. This was a bit of a nightmare for my hayfever as I had to walk through very high fields of grass nettles and all manner of horrible things.
A quick tea (or it would have been if the hotel staff did their job and worked promptly) and then it was off caching. There was a series of caches to do but I ran out of time as it was getting dark when I go to the last cache and I didn't have a torch with me.
The second cache was the moving Dam Busters Memorial as this was based around a memorial to the dambusters pilots. There had been several fresh photos and stories laid at the memorial which were really moving reading. Then it was off to High Spirits where I got bitten alive by mozzies and thought I had lost my pda. It turned out that I had left it in the boot of the car - phew! This would have been a very expensive cache visit if I had lost it. The annoying thing is that this was a couple of days after trying to get a cheap palm pda off ebay for precisely this reason.
The final cache was Guy's Gaff which was after 10pm and it was starting to get dark. I had to use the GPS's backlight to see the writing on the logbook and get the all important code word for the final cache in the series (which will have to wait for another day)

Posted by Andy at June 8, 2004 9:10 PM