Barmill

After a lovely sunny Saturday we decided to head out for dinner and to bag a few caches too. Our plan was to visit some caches to the East of Beith, head to the Torranyard for a curry and then go back up to Beith to have a  try at Amazo's night cache in the Spier's Old School grounds.

On our way to Beith we found ourselves driving through Barrmill and Mrs SC (who was on the GPS) announced that we were about to drive right past a cache so we pulled over and headed off in search of it. This cache wasn't on our list for the evening so we knew nothing about it. We've driven through Barrmill hundreds of times but never knew there was a park.

The cache is located near to the Vale burn, thus the cache title It's Available but despite a good hunt I couldn't find it. Mrs SC had opted to direct the search from above whilst the kids had disappeared into the small playpark. I was ready to give up when the kids finally decided they wanted to come and help and wouldn't you know it they found the cache in 10 seconds flat. This is a nice little park but make sure you visit the hidden valley and follow the lovely nature trail which has been built through it with interesting homemade water features.

At the top of Ginger hill behind the park lay our next cache which again wasn't on the list for the evening. Deid Man's Plantin lies at the far side of a field which looking at the previous logs can get a bit muddy. On our visit however it was fine but it's quite lumpy underfoot due to the field being used for cows. The GZ is at the location a mass grave where 42 Cholera victims were buried in 1829. There's little evidence of this today aside for the trees which were apparently planted at the same time. Super Kid found this one and was pleased as punch.

This was an unplanned visit to this park which we knew nothing about but we really enjoyed it. The nature walk especially is lovely and the kids found it very interesting.