Caching Tales

It was finally time for our second holiday of the year and another chance to find some geocaches a bit further away from home.   Sadly, any thoughts of trips abroad this year are still off the cards for us as with work and family commitments it’s just not an option to find ourselves stranded in another country’s lockdown or having to isolate in hotels at either end, so we opted for another staycation.   Keen to go somewhere we hadn’t visited before and hopeful of finding at least some sunshine, we decided to head to the Isle of Wight in the south of England.  Neither of us had ever crossed the Solent to visit it before, not even for a day trip, so it was a brand new adventure for us. And with it being an island we thought it might feel slightly more like a holiday abroad…just without the 30 degree temperatures.   It proved to be a great choice. The island may be small, but it is steeped in so much history, having had some very famous royal residents in the past....

To mark British summer time a trip to the seaside is always in order, so this weekend we packed up our buckets and spades and headed for Felixstowe on the Suffolk coast.    Team DannyJGB, comprising of my sister and nieces 3ft and 4ft, were holidaying there for the weekend, so we decided to visit them for a day and take the opportunity to do the new lab caches there as well.     It wasn’t the warmest of days, but then it always seems to be blowing a hoolie every time I go to Felixstowe, but it was dry and that’s all we needed for a nice walk.  The town now has two series of lab caches, ‘Plaques and the Pier’ and ‘Felixstowe’s Seafront Gardens’.  We decided to do both simultaneously on two phones so that we weren’t walking back and forth too much and it was great that both COs had managed to include different, interesting places like the town centre, pier and the beautiful gardens and its many features along the front.    It was nice to see the sto...