Jules and I are off to Sunny Lyn Holiday Park in Lynbridge, near Lynton. They allowed us to pitch 2 tents on 1 pitch and had electric hook up for my tent, the cost £30 total for 2 nights....fantastic eh?
It was a lovely site with a stream running down the side of it and a nice pub just outside.
This was our camp for 2 nights so that we could do the big Parramble series in and around Parracombe.
We set off just after 7am and made our way down the M5 to our first cache of the day
LQ:Bristol - Clifton Down This was in a nice area very close to the Clifton suspension bridge.
It was good to pick up another Little Quest cache and then to drive over the bridge towards our next stop.
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| Bristol Estuary |
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| Clifton Suspension bridge |
We decided that next we would do a small section of 5 Parramble caches that would cut down tomorrows walk by a mile and then set off to pitch our tents at the above mentioned campsite.
It is a small campsite but just the job for 2 nights camping and a good base for doing the series as it was only a 10 minute drive.
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| Two tents on one pitch at bargain price. |
Once the tents were up it was time to hit the trail. We arrived and were booted at around 2.45pm.
Parramble by kevham1 and CeeKay1
It was decided to do the much smaller southern section today (around 10 miles) and then with an earlier start we could do the northern section tomorrow (18 miles).
I am unsure of how hot it was but it can't have been far off 30°C as we really struggled and worried about running out of water.
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| A slight incline, a sign of things to come. |
There are lots of little hills on this series so most of the time you are walking either uphill or downhill, it really added to the walk and would make doing the whole series in one go very difficult.
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| Nowhere to hide from the hot sun. |
It was hard walking in places due to uneven ground but this added to the whole experience and around 5 hours later we were back at the car and ready for an evening meal.
We first went back to campsite and shared a bottle of cider before hitting the showers. These were very dated but very clean and done the job. We then decided to rive into Lynton/Lynmouth to try and find a chippy.
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| The lovely Lynmouth |
Lynmouth is lovely but seems very quiet. We parked up and soon found a chippy, but it had closed at 9pm doh....so what do we do now? All the pubs had stopped food at 9pm too...
We tried Lynton but nothing, I did manage to get a 4 pack of cold Cidre but really needed food.
Last resort was The Cottage pub which was right next to our campsite, they had finished food but agreed that they could make us something that could be cooked quickly yay.
So fish and chips twice and a drink to swill it down, the owners of this pub went out of their way for us.
I tried phoning home but could get no signal, so they let me make a quick call on their landline :)
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| Waiting for dinner after a hard afternoons caching. |
The food was delicious and of generous size too. We took our time eating it and then retired to our tents.
Well considering how shattered I was yesterday I managed a brilliant nights sleep and Jules said she did also.
Jules cooked a huge breakfast to keep us going and we filled our rucksacks with as much water and food as possible as we knew this was going to be a monster day.
Parramble by kevham1 and CeeKay1
We parked at the same car park as yesterday to hit the huge Northern section. It was not as hot today but was lovely and sunny all day. We decided to stop at all the pubs on the route but unfortunately there was none haha.
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| Lots of novelty containers on this series. |
It didn't take long before the hills kicked in and there were lots of them. There was nothing very steep but just continual ups and downs.
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| Near to the sea! |
Jules was struggling after a while due to discomfort from her knee when we hit the downhill sections, but fairplay to her, she just plodded along without any moaning.
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| Woodland |
We walked through fields, down small country lanes, through woods, along streams and even got pretty close to the coast, well close enough for a couple of pics.
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| A nice stream |
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| Oh I do like to be beside the seaside! |
All in all it took us around 11 hours to get round and we still had 4 left to come back for tomorrow. We just didn't want to miss out at the chippy again.
I had another fab nights sleep but its got to be due to all that walking.
Today was our last day and only a few caches were planned. So after another cracking breakfast and taking down the tents, we walked towards Lynton.
There was 4 caches pencilled in and they were all great.
Exmoors First by Dave And Niki
Located on Hollerday Hill near Lynton, this was the first cache we got to and the views were stunning, a fantastic cache and location.
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| Exmoors first cache... Dec 2001 |
Behind us in the pick is the Valley of the rocks were we are heading next.
Valley of the Rocks by Shorty ger adopted it from signyred
An earthcache in a lovely location and well worth doing.
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| Walking down towards the Valley of the Rocks. |
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| At the info board. |
Next it was on to a traditional with plenty of fave points
The Valley Of Rocks by MegMania
This cache was different as it was a bison tube attached to a key ring but was hidden in a really stunning location up in the rocks. It was great to walk past the goats on the way up.
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| It's up the top of there :) |
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| On the way up. |
Well one more left to do and thats a virtual from June 2002.
Castle Rock (North Devon) by DJH
A virtual with an easy question to answer in this lovely area, all these 4 caches have received a fave point off myself.
It was time to head back to the campsite to complete this 5 mile walk.
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| A great view on way back to campsite. |
Next it was back to Parramble series to pick up the remaining 4 caches. We stopped off on the way to pick up Woody Bay Choo Choo.
So we have completed Parramble series and found all 150 of the caches...Credit must go to the c/o's as many of the caches had new logs in and maintenance on their caches is always top notch....
Our time in North Devon was done and it was time to head home but there was just one stop left, another Little Quest cache.
LQ: Somerset - Hyden Wood by The Morgan Mob
We started and ended this break with a little quest. A lovely walk through the woods to GZ.
A totally brilliant break with caching buddy Jules, we managed to rake in 157 caches
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