She picked me up from home at around 6.40am and we set off with lots of extras today as the forecast wasn't too promising for the afternoon.
We headed south down the M5 and took the Gloucester exit on route to the parking for first caches of the day, a drive by next to a church and Waterfall Reachin by Geobuzzbee.
We had loads of fun at the waterfall even before we reached there as we tried to get to it directly via road but it was a tad dangerous haha. Once at GZ we had a pretty good look but we both had a feeling that it wasn't there even before we set off due to a few DNF's.....it turns out it was there all along but we didn't find it unfortunately,
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| Yep, it's behind there somewhere! |
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| Looking away from waterfall! |
Oh well nevermind the area was definately worth a visit and a return trip some other time.....We went back to the car to park up for another 2 caches:
Welshbury Iron Age Fort which we had to walk up a hill and through some lovely woods to get to, it really is lovely around here. We found the cache and then I led us the wrong way somehow haha .....it was mainly due to not looking at map on Oregon.
We were so glad we took the wrong path as some of the views were stunning, we figured it was a good place to have a 5 minute chill and take a few snaps.
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| Near to GZ. |
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| Views we came across by accident! |
We moved on in the correct direction this time and we soon arrived at what was to be our 2nd DNF of the day, but yet again a fantastic area.
ST Anthony Rocky River We spent a while looking around here and have a feeling it may not be there any more but maybe we missed it somehow. We had great fun walking across a natural bridge and then lying on bank with arms stretching up into all the tree roots.
A lovely area.
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| It's supposed to be around here somewhere! |
As we gave up it started to rain and then hail as we walked back to the car. We were now on our way to a small series nearby.
HW series by Geobuzzbee
http://coord.info/GC2R1Y5
A 2.5 mile walk taking in 7 caches over the Heywoods with 1 extra on way back to car. The terrain was pretty easy once at top of small hill, although number 7 would not be easy to get if you struggle to get around as it was down a bit of a bank.
All the caches were straightforward finds with 7 being my favourite and earning a fave point.
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| A bit of a scramble down to cache 7, but easy enough! |
We bagged the extra cache on our way back to the car and had a quick cup of coffee before moving on to Symonds Yat.....
Symonds Yat Rock by SidAndBob
http://coord.info/GC1EGCZ
This is definately a fantastic earthcache as the views looking down on the River Wye are fantastic.
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| To the right of viewing platform |
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| and to the left! |
We took a few moments to take it all in and read up on the information board before returning to car. We were going to do the series right by car park but feared we wouldn't have enough time to fit in the main attraction of the day, so we decided to move on and park car up on the other side of the river.
So we parked up and there were 4 caches we were after over here, we started of with King Arthur's Cave but we didn't go in the caves due to time and the fact that we will need to go into a cave to look for a cache shortly.
Next we bagged a cache overlooking the river again....yet another fantastic location. We never took in one more cache on the way to the main attraction....
Looking for Linda by SidAndBob
http://coord.info/GCYK2B
As we approached this we were a bit unsure where to go and soon realised that the coords we arrived at were above where we wanted to be so it was just a matter of finding the entrance.
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| Somewhere above the cache. |
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| Where's the door gone? |
After a few minutes of scrambling around we managed to spot the entrance , so we both donned our torches and prepared to go in and look for Linda
It was fun ducking down to get in the entrance and proceeding a short distance to the back of the cave. Amazingly we had only just got in there really when Jules spotted and retrieved the cache.
We took a couple of photos and had a good look round to take it all in, I rank this as one of my favourite caches.
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| Another fab cache found by team BCC Beds! |
It was now time to get back to the car which wasn't to far away. It started hailing on the way but thankfully we reached the car before it turned really heavy...
We were full of smiles after such a great cache and decided that it would be nice to head back slowly but stop off in Ross-on-Wye.
We parked up near to a cricket pitch and skate park to do some caches spread out around the town. All of the caches were quick finds around this nice town, I also bagged some chips from Chippy on way round.
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| The lovely views from the Prospect |
So another fine day as come to an end, with the weather being pretty kind to us.
Total smileys bagged today = 25
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