Saturday, 24 March 2012

Broadstone

After a detour in Barrmill to grab a couple of caches we finally made it to the first cache on our planned list for the evening. This was a cache named Emily of TKG at Broadstone castle but there was no sign of Emily nor Broadstone castle. It's located at the side of a quite country road but we parked a little too far along the road and had to backtrack on foot to reach the GZ. We then had to work out how to get into the cache is it was behind a wire fence. Once in we spotted the cache right away but the cache container was empty aside from the log. We remedied this by leaving a TB we've been carrying around for a while which has been too big to fit in any caches we've visited.

Mirryn's Arran View was next and Mrs SC and Super Girlie jumped out to find it while myself and Super Kid stayed in the car. Five minutes later they were still hunting so we got out to give them a hand and found it right away. Mrs SC wasn't best pleased! We launched a new TB on it's travels here too, good luck Flutterby Butterfly!

Our last target before going for dinner was Broadstone Kiln. This lies in a small strip of forest which has unfortunatley been used as a rubbish dump by some inconsiderate idiots (have they never heard of a council tip??). We entered the wood by crawling through the fence as we couldn't see another way in and found ourselves right in front of the old Limekilns. There were much much bigger than we'd imagined  and really quite impressive. We found the cache quite easily after a bit of a scramble but had to take care as there are very steep drops into the remains of the old limestone quarries.

Three more caches found (5 so far this evening) and we were getting hungry so we headed off to the Torranyard for a curry and a rest before coming back to attempt the night cache at Spier's Old School Grounds.

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