Caching Tales

I’m ashamed to say that October was our worst month in three years of caching. Just 22 caches found, but what a great 22! First up were a number of finds during the second half of our trip to the Caribbean isle of St Lucia. They included the brilliant earthcache at the Volcano and at Diamond Falls, a pretty waterfall located in the botanical gardens.  In the capital of Castries we located a well hidden cache in the port, right next to where a luxury cruise liner had just docked. A boat trip around the harbour gave us a chance to grab another earthcache this time focusing on the eroding coastline. And we had a giggle at an elderly man who looked like he was trying to command the sea...Poseidon eat your heart out!  Finally, we braved the snakes on the other side of the island to grab one final cache before heading home to the UK.  With DIY and family catch ups dominating much of October, our caching trips became few and far between. However, a few ...

Back from our adventures abroad, we hit the ground running in order to fill some calendar gaps in our caching calendar.  No sooner had we unloaded our luggage from the car I headed off, slightly jet lagged, to the forest around Warren Lodge, near Mildenhall. Located at the far end of the woodland trail was the last unfound cache in the Idle Hands series. Grabbing the parents dog Bobby - a rather enthusiastic black Labrador - on the way, we were soon traversing the woodland path heading for the cache. It was a decent walk and as we approached GZ I spotted the bright red gory cache. In keeping with the series theme, it was another severed hand, this time a rather bloody one, and the cache was neatly attached.  After a bit of a tussle with the dog who desperately wanted to get his mouth around it, I’d signed the log and safely returned it.  The following day, I needed another grid filler, so on a trip to Cambridge decided to stop off and grab a fairly new ...

Still sunning ourselves on the Caribbean isle of St Lucia, we had two days left with the hire car. Keen to grab every opportunity to get out and about and see as much of the Island as possible, we grabbed our caching bag, car keys and headed South. Our destination was the key reason I had chosen St Lucia as our holiday destination - the drive-in Volcano! In fact the world’s only drive-in Volcano!  The distance to it hadn’t looked that far on the map, just 28km as the crow flies. However, it actually took nearly an hour and a half to drive as the roads in the south west twist and turn through the mountains. Numerous steep hills and hairpin bends elongated the journey, as the little white automatic hire car struggled along, barely getting beyond first gear most of the time. We stopped a couple of times on the way to snap some photos of the stunning Pitons. They really are quite something, and a big part of what is left of the island’s volcanic origins. ...

When choosing where to go on holiday these days (since we discovered geocaching) it’s always a bit of a toss up between going somewhere with lots of geocaches and somewhere with lots of interesting things to see. And by that I usually mean volcanoes - my other passion in life aside from geocaching. This year I went with the volcano and a location we hadn’t been to before, the Caribbean isle of St Lucia. With almost every square inch of its volcanic landscape covered in lush vegetation and rainforests, it’s the greenest place I’ve ever been that consistently has temperatures soaring well above 30 degrees. Where many other volcanic island’s have black sandy beaches, St Lucia doesn’t. It’s beaches are covered in soft white sand, turning the shallow sea water around them a stunning turquoise blue. It really is an amazing place and the people are fantastic.             However, caching wise, there are very few on the island...just 14!...