So it was out for a walk around an area near home (so near, we don't need to get in the car to drive there). It's a 2 mile circular path on the very edge of Livingston popular with cyclists, runners and dog-walkers; and as of a few weeks ago... Geocachers! There never used to be any caches here and now there are SEVEN. So we set out with intentions to get them all!
We almost failed at the second hurdle when we followed the path when we should have followed the more popular dog-walker's route. We missed that cache (but picked it up again before finishing). The furthest away cache was way off the beaten track and almost under a viaduct for a railway line that we didn't even know existed! We had to fight our way through overgrown woodland, dodging puddles and little rivers on the way like proper exploring! It was a nice cache though - called Welcome to the Jungle and filled with plastic animal toys. I managed to swap for a model of the How to Train Your Dragon baddie! And then we found the correct route back to the main path avoiding all the brambles!
The next cache was called The Last Dinosaur Egg and it took quite a bit of finding. It was the yellow egg from inside a large Kinder egg. I'd loved to have seen (and eaten) the chocolate egg that it was inside!
Now we're back home, having earned an afternoon playing the XBox!
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