Alexandra Park

We were up at Glasgow Fort today so decided to take a wee detour via Alexandra park on the way home. There are two caches at the park. The first of these is Craig's Easter and can be found just outside the main park entrance on Alexandra Parade. It's in full muggle view so the kids were dispatched to have a hunt for it. Eventually we found it in the first place we'd looked.

On our way into the park we spotted the Saracen Fountain and grabbed a photo to complete the Fountain Photo Fantastic challenge. This 40ft high cast iron fountain was gifted to the City of Glasgow after the 1901 International Exhibition and remained in Kelvingrove Park for 12 years after the exhibition. In 1914 Glasgow Corporation took the decision to move it to its present location in Alexandra Park. In 2000 the fountain was restored to its former glory at a cost of £22,000. After just 11 years it's already a bit of an eye-sore with peeling paint, a pathetic trickle of a fountain and stagnant green water. It's colour has also been changed from blue and gold and is now a rather ugly black and gold. £22,000 well spent? I think not!

Two minutes later we spotted another fountain, this one was in the duck pond so stopped to take another snap.

Next was East Ender's View which as the name suggests is at the top of the hill. Me and Eilidh headed up there whilst the rest of the Super Collectors headed for the play park. The cache clue told us that the GZ was under the roots of a tree, but when we got up there there were dozens of them. I think we looked under every tree but didn't find the cache. I think we found where the cache should be as there was a perfect hiding place bang on where the GPS coordinates were pointing. However suspect this cache has been muggled as we're the third Geocachers in a row not to find it. 

We gave up after a while and headed back down to the play park.

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