Geocaching

The way home @TheAA_UK

I packed away early this morning – it was a dry morning, barely a dew, so the tent went away nearly dry. Usually the flysheet is wet with condensation but not today.

For the first part of the journey home I had prepared a list of geocaches along the A697 to Morpeth – the road right outside the campsite. Several of which led me to interesting locations that I would have missed had it not been for geocaching.

The AA

The first stop was a picnic area with an unusual memorial and an orphaned arch!

The AA

The AA

Geocaching

Maelmin Heritage Trail

After stops in Greenlaw, Coldstream and Cornhill-on-Tweed, my final stop was the RAF War Memorial in Milfield. I did not find the cache but adjacent to the memorial is the extensive Maelmin Heritage Trail. Well worth the stop.


Milfield North Henge reconstruction


Reconstructed Dark Age House

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A day geocaching

Back to work tomorrow – today I set out to go geocaching in the local area, to include getting fuel in Galashiels and lunch in Stow at a cafe recommended to me by one of the campers.

The view near Lauder
This cache was in a lay-by near the campsite

The view near Lauder
The view near Lauder

Gullet Wood

See the note here…

Gullet Wood

Gullet Wood
Picnic area and shelter

Gullet Wood

Stow

The view near Stow
The view near Stow

It was strange geocaching in Stow as the caches were part of a treasure hunt and history trail around the village. Instead of having to be careful about searching and looking suspicious, it seemed like everyone knew what I was doing.

Excellent history trail – I would recommend it.

I’d recommend the Cloudhouse cafe in Stow as well, free fast wifi and good tea. Also the wifi let me catch up with things at the office and speak to client on Skype.

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Walking in Gullet Wood

Walking in Gullet Wood

I found this place because there was a geocache here – well actually it is not here now, but the descriptions of the place were so good that I decided to visit anyway.

I took water from this stream to try out my new Sawyer water filter – I am writing this post about four hours later and no bad effects from the water yet! More on this filter and its use in a later post – things did not go so well.

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A day in Edinburgh

I went into Edinburgh today to meet up with Jeremy, geocaching then took us to a part of the city we had not visited before.

The Water of Leith Walkway

http://www.waterofleith.org.uk/walkway

James Clark Maxwell
James Clark Maxwell – saw this on the walk in – this image is going to feature in a OneNote article I am writing for Octagon Technology

The Water of Leith Walkway

The Water of Leith Walkway

The Water of Leith Walkway

The Water of Leith Walkway

Edinburgh – Grassmarket

Edinburgh - Grassmarket

Edinburgh - Grassmarket

Le Cafe Bleu Grassmarket Edinburgh
We had an excellent lunch here – both Jeremy and I would recommend it

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Black Isle

Today we packed our lunch and went off to The Black Isle and Cromarty to search for Geocaches. We had a good day and found seven but visited too many sites where we “DNF”.

Came back to Dingwall Campsite to play Rummikub – three, nil, nil to me.

Cromarty Firth and the A9 bridge in the distance from a geocache
Cromarty Firth and the A9 bridge in the distance from a Geocache

Fungi

Cromarty Harbour
Cromarty Harbour

Skimming stones
Skimming stones in Cromarty beach

Update

10.15pm – now Rummikub is five, nil, nil to me.

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