The reason I chose Swansea area was just for Mumbles Lighthouse Island but as usual we added a few more on so we could collect the oldest cache in Wales and to colour in all the lower counties.
I picked Jules up around 6.30am on an already beautiful, sunny day. We arrived at parking for first walk of the day at 8.20am.
The First in Wales by The Gecko's
Jules had chose this cache for us to do as it was the first cache placed in Wales, it was placed on 17 Feb 2001.
On the way to it there was a YOSM that we picked up, it was a lovely walk high up on top of the hill.
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| Blorenge YOSM |
The views were fantastic when some early morning fog disappeared, this walk in lovely countryside with great views is what Geocaching is all about.
When we arrived at GZ after just over a miles walk, we were greeted by lots of rocks and underneath those rocks was (yes, you guessed it!) the geocache.
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| YAY Jules with the cache. |
It took us ages to find but just as I began lining everything up with the spoiler pic, Jules had found it yay....... a nice big ammo can.
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| View from cache. |
We then moved on to a park which should help us colour in South Glamorgan on our maps.
Caedelyn Park by Teaonesugar
A short walk around the boundary of some playing fields. There are 4 caches available but unfortunately we could not find one of them.
The park was ery busy with kids playing football but it was a huge distraction for us and enabled us to search for them no problem at all.
We moved on after the DNF and this time we did a fair few caches as drive by's on the way to Porthcawl where we wanted to do a cache which was close to the shore.
The Secret Diary of the Cacher's Tales by The Pacman Clan
We parked up close to the start of the path as possible and took in a couple of caches on the way in to this one. What attracted us to this one was the fact that you could make your own story up about the cache experience....We do enjoy doing things that are different from the norm.
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| Looking towards Porthcawl. |
It was nice to be walking on the edge of the beach in lovely sunshine, the walk to the cache and back was less than 2 miles but so glad we chose to do it.
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| Not far from GZ. |
We had a few minutes sit down while Jules ate something and then we moved on back to the car.
A few more drive by's later and we arrived to do a well favourited series but after looking at first 3 caches we gave up.... 2 weren't there and 1 was just lid and pencil only.
I won't name the series as it's obviously normally a great series.
So next stop was a pub called the Copper Penny in Port Talbot where we both had a voucher for a free drink....It was good to stop and chill which I think is a first for us...
Next we decided to head of to the cache which was the original reason for this trip.
Mumbles lighthouse island by golden pig
We parked up at car park on main road above seafront and made our way down to this one. This cache is tidal and low tide today was at 5.20pm..... we arrived at parking just after that time.
It was a nice walk down to the beach and we even walked straight past a cache as we wanted to get this on first.
It was then over the rocks and then up Lighthouse Island. Cache was easy to locate and while we signed the log we also took in some of the fantastic views on offer from here.
A great cache.
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| Swansea over there! |
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| Wow, simply stunning. |
On the way back there was a slight diversion to another cache that was a must do. We had read up beforehand and there was lots of fave points, so whilst back on the rocks it was time for a bit of climbing....
Seal View by sdh1412
It was a bit of a trick climb up at the bottom but once so far up it was no problem at all. The views up here yet again were stunning and offered the best shot of the lighthouse.
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| Mumbles lighthouse. |
The cache was also found quickly, this really is everything great about geocaching!
One last cache by the pier and then it was time to head off to the travelodge and grab our rooms, luckily as it was quiet we had rooms away from motorway noise and right next to each other.
We had decided to get ready and then head off to the nearest Wetherspoons for tea, it was absolutely rammed but we only waited 30 mins or so for food so not bad.
So a fab days caching comes to an end, it was a shame we pulled out on one series but we were so disheartened that caches weren't there.....
Sunday morning and an overcast start, a bit different to the lovely day yesterday. We grabbed a McD's breakfast and then hit the road picking up drive by's on the way home.
I had to be home for 1pm to join family in celebration of my dad's 70th birthday.
Another fantastic time caching and another 30 smilies in the bag.
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