Caches No’s 6114 to 6123 – Duckwars 2022

Duck Wars is a duck racing event Kerry holds on the Chesterfield canal. It takes place in the middle of nowhere, at a Lock which is about equidistant from the road and car park along the canal in either direction.

It was the first time I had been to the event, I knew where it was because I went with her (and others) on a walk along the canal a few years ago (cache #4673 30/3/19) to make sure this particular lock was suitable and in a good condition for her Duck Wars duck race.

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Caches No’s 6097 to 6113 – Hyke Around Hykeham 10

I forget how many times I have been to the Amasons’ Hyke around Hykeham event in Lincoln, the first one I went to was in 2015, and they missed the last couple of years for one reason or another, so I guess this was my 6th visit – and most of the usual faces were there, and it was a nice sunny day to boot.
There is a lake just the football pitches length away from the venue and there were some caches and some Lab caches round it, so I had a walk round with Jeff (of CnJnA) to find them

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Caches No’s 6044 to 6070 – West Mids Mega Day 6

UK Mega day itself…

I have written before how the actual Mega days are a bit unexciting, and this Mega was no different, Yes there are a lot of people there and many you don’t see from one year end to the next – indeed I spent a lot of the day sitting out in the sun chatting to an ever changing table of people and that was pleasant, but that was outside of the Mega committees offerings to entertain their customers

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Caches No’s 6000 to 6013 – West Mids Mega Day 4

Several weeks before the Mega Matthew had decided that we should all go off on one of the Mega days and do the Virtual cache on the Severn Valley railway, and this became a trip for 15 of us…

The Severn Valley railway is a long Heritage railway running from Bridgnorth to Kidderminster and one of it’s more interesting bits is that it passes the West Midlands Safari Park, so you see giraffes and elephants and rhinoceros from the train windows

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