After yesterday’s successful National Trust caching session, we decided to do another NT site today.
Probably our closest, Packwood House is about half an hour away.
Firstly, checking the geocaching site revealed about five (same as yesterday) with the Adventure Lab site giving another five locations.
First port of call was the church of St. Giles, about half a mile or so from the house. Here we found a straight forward traditional cache and collected some numbers from around the church which gave us the co-ordinates for the location of the actual container and logbook.
St. Giles was also the location for one of the AdLab questions.
The final co-ordinates, previously calculated, lay on the way to Packwood itself so we pulled in and took far too long locating the small container. From here it was on to the main car park for Packwood House.
The first three locations were easily found and the Questions answered. With the one at St. Giles already done this just left a final one across the parklands and into the bluebell bedecked woods beyond.
With the final answer confirmed, the Packwood Adventure was complete but looking at the geocaching app showed a couple more traditional caches further along the path.
Some five hundred metres or so we came to Ground Zero (GZ) for the first of the two caches. There was a further cache another hundred metres or so further still. Sue, who was flagging a little, suggested that I carry on to the other cache whilst she stayed and located this one. Good Plan.
I went ahead and after a good ten minutes of fruitless searching was joined by Sue to give me a hand. We still came away empty handed but on the way back, Sue told me that she had found her cache just couldn’t open it.
We returned to ‘Sue’s’ cache which was a nut and bolt construction which had rusted solid so we, and many previous finders, were unable to unscrew to reveal the logbook within.
I took this picture as proof in case the owner disputes our find (unlikely).
There was just one more cache and that could be reached along a slightly different course to the way out.
We returned to the site of the final AdLab location, beside a reflective pool, before heading off to the final cache of the day.
This cache had eluded us on at least two previous attempts so we had a score to settle.
At GZ, I went straight to the cache and picked it up showing Sue.
”We checked there before”, she stated.
”I know”, I answered, “but it’s there now!”
Anyway, we’d finally found it so after signing the log, it was returned and we made our way back to the house or more specifically, the ice cream stall for a celebratory 99.
We’re doing well, that four days on the trot. What’s on the cards for tomorrow? No idea !