April 11th 2011 – HELP!!!Which way to NAM? GC2EGFK – cache #1068
Another weekend over and time to begin the journey home, which would start by finishing the Channel Link caches that were to the north of where I was staying. However the first cache I did was on the road out of town and was hidden behind the road sign on a very busy road… funny how there were cars everywhere as I pulled into the layby and walked back to the sign, but then conveniently there was a long gap in the traffic while I retrieved the cache and signed the log, made up for some of the disturbances I’d had on the way down !
April 11th 2011 – Ralph’s Wood #1 GCGC2EM9Q – cache #1069
Ralphs wood is a small wood on top of a hill, there are two caches one deep in the wood, and this one at the roadside entrance
April 11th 2011 – Channel Link #04 – Lympsham GC2AYAF – cache #1070
A cache hidden behind the telephone box in the centre of the small village of Lympsham. The photograph shows the whole centre of the village, phone box, bin, bench, obelisk and flower pots. I’m not sure if the locals know why drivers keep stopping in their village and ferreting around by the phone box, but sometimes they must wonder…
April 11th 2011 – Church Macro 001 – St Christophers, Lympsham GC1W3X2 – cache #1071
The churchyard must take up about half the area of the village, it’s quite a big church with quite a big graveyard around it, and is the home to a large cache – well much larger than the caches in the Church Micro series
April 11th 2011 – Channel Link #03 – Bleadon GC2AYAE – cache #1072
This must be the least attractive cache site on the whole Channel Link series, there’s a mile or so of dead straight, dead flat road, with a railway line running along one side and dead flat fields on the other, nothing to recommend it at all, but there is a drainage ditch between fields (not even a fence or a hedge to break up the dismal view) and by this drainage ditch is the cache
April 11th 2011 – Channel Link #02 – Weston GC2AYAD – cache #1073
As you head into Weston Super Mare there’s a corner of tarmac that the road widening scheme has bypassed, armco, magnetic cache etc…
April 11th 2011 – Channel Link #01 – The Beach GC2AYAC – cache #1074
And finally I get to the end (or is it the beginning) of the Channel Link Series, though I have only found 41 of the 56 caches (55 plus bonus) The cache itself is hidden actually buried in the sand tied to a piece of string and to a post
April 11th 2011 – Checkpoint 5 – pill church GC1PT86 – cache #1075
Last year I wrote
“I didn’t find Gatecrash junction 19 GC1PT86, this was supposedly under a small rock at the other end of the path to the services… however the gateway was full of nettles, rubbish, fly tipped builders rubble and dog dirt… I kicked over a few stones found nothing and then walked away… not really a place I wanted to search closely”
This year the cache has been renamed, there wasn’t as much rubbish and dog dirt, and I found the cache relatively easily
April 11th 2011 – M6 Keele Services Southbound GC2JOND – cache #1076
I was heading northbound, but had to stop at the services (actually for a snooze, as I was falling asleep, hot day, and a weekend of caching, alcohol and not much sleep etc) after my rest I walked over the bridge and through the carpark to the advertising hoardings where the cache was hidden… and then walked all the way back !
April 11th 2011 – Buckstones Moor #5 – Haigh Gutter GC2F6C9 – cache #1077
Mightily bored of motorway driving I decided to take a small detour along a road parallel to the M62, which brought me past a few more caches, the first one at the base of a National Trust sign
April 11th 2011 – Buckstones Moor #1 – Black Bess GC2F6C3 – cache #1078
There were a couple more roadside caches that I couldn’t find, either because there were other cars parked in the cache parking spots, or just because I couldn’t be bothered searching too hard, if I couldn’t see them I just drove on… The next one I did find was another easy find as it was at the base of the only post around for it to be at the base of
April 11th 2011 – Bridge Swap box GC1V2MN – cache #1079
Hidden in the armco of the motorway bridge, I was a little disappointed that it wasn’t right in the middle of the bridge allowing you to be in the view of all the drivers as they passed below, but instead it was well off to the side of the motorway where the barrier begins
April 11th 2011 – Motorway Mayhem M62 Hartshead Services GC2KWYN – cache #1080
Last cache of a long trip home – although really it took me no longer than the trip down I suppose !
This cache is easy enough to find, hidden behind a large advertising hoarding as a lot of the caches at Service stations seem to be. This was a suprisingly large cache though being a magnetic clip-lok box much bigger than the micro-caches I’ve been finding most of the weekend
At this cache I dropped off the Cache Movers Geocoin
