Today is the Geocaching 12 of 12, and I'm off on one of my geocaching bike rides. Here are some of the things I take with me.
Panniers and water bottles loaded onto the bike.
I mount my little GPSr (a Geko 201) on the handlebars, and use it as a cycle computer as well as navigational device.
First a detour into Cambridge to find a cunning new cache. Can you spot it? I don't rush for first-to-finds any more, so I was surprised to be still FTF at 08:53. (Thanks to the cache owner for letting me post this photo).
My main plan today was to visit the twin villages of Holywell-cum-Needingworth. This is the Holy Well in the village name. There's a six-year old cache here (GCGP3D), which I've found before.
Most of the caches I found today were along the River Great Ouse, including GC1YGE9 and GC1YGB5 which are part of a project to put a cache every mile along the whole 150-mile long river.
I had lunch in this pub, the Old Ferry Boat Inn. This is a very ancient crossing point of the river and there's been an inn here since at least 560 AD. There's a cache beside it, GC1T2VE.
The village lock-up in Needingworth. Lock-ups were a sort of community jail in rural areas, holding drunks or suspected criminals overnight. This one dates from 1838. There's a cache here too, GC1V5EY.
One of the things I love about caching in the late summer is that the hedgerows are full of blackberries.
Crossing the Greenwich meridian. There are several caches placed exactly on the meridian around here, including one I did today, GC1MZTF. This marker was also my first ever waymark, WM775M.
And here's my final distance for the day. 42 miles, comprising about 37 riding and five walking.
Back home for my traditional post-caching snack of sweet tea and peanut butter.
