I was invited by Wrighty to do some caches in the Vale of the White Horse. We decided to set off and try the QBS series by the K9 Crew, and also try a few others afterwards. It seemed like a good plan, and had a great drive of 30 miles geo-chatting along the way.
Before too long, we had arrived, and parked in the National Trust car park for White Horse Hill. We had a nice stroll along the Ridgeway, picking up a great Wombles cache, and one from the "birds" series, before joining up with #10 on QBS, and enjoying the views, before we bid farewell to Mrs Wrighty, who decided to have a walk around the hill for now instead.
An enjoyable walk round, with nice views, plenty of hills, variation in terrain, and nice containers - though they were all the regular sort, and easy finds, so not quite sure why some of them have 20+ favorite points? Enjoyed finding a "large" sized cache for once, and swapping/spotting the trackables nestling inside it. All in all, a great walk and fab series with good quality caches, though, after BEEline to Wentnor, I felt let down not to find a single ammo box [:D] (after finding 7 on BEEline) Would recommend, and like the fact that we were "on a quest". Interesting history about the area, so yes, a good loop.
Once we had arrived at #11 (After 22 finds) we decided to join Mrs Wrighty on her wander on the hill, bagging a trigpoint, and collecting clues for the nearby multi "The Dragons Egg". We didn't understand one of the clues, so put together a rough estimate on the coordinates, and after lunch, decided to search on our drive back down the hill. It was purely by luck that I spotted the container up a bank while looking out of the car window, and giving a favorite on this one, for the great spot (Lovely scenery and views) and also for a good cache. Still don't understand the hint though, Wrighty was expecting it to be hidden differently according to the hint itself.
To end the day, Wrighty offered to drive me to a nearby nuclear bunker, of which he had found a cache a few months back. Never been in one before, so felt a bit scared as I climbed down step by step, but at the same time was fascinated by the history side of it, and all that must have gone on in there. Didn't really look for the cache, Wrighty kindly pointed it out to me, while I posed for some photos. Giving another favorite here, for a unique, memorable hide, in a good spot - and also 5 red kites put on quite a show for us, with the views behind them, quite amazing, never seen so many in one go.
So, all in all, a SUPERB days caching, in the great company of Wrighty, nice to see him again, and swap some more stories. Remember, as always, to read my logs on Geocaching.com for more on each cache on the series.
Griff Grof
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