We traveled to Burpham, Arundel along with my mum and partners dad and step-mum. My partner's family introduced us to Geocaching so we've done a few treks with them! They go by the name Kashpop so this would be our first time writing down two names in the logs. Kashpop planned the caches and I took a trackable along in hopes to get rid and move on. (Unsuccessful as the caches were too small.) The caches are a variety of shapes and included co-ordinate caches and traditional, there are some part of a series and some random one offs. The caches we did travel along different types of terrain including some steep, gradual and flat terrain.
Burpham - Jacobs Ladder
This cache was an easy find, if you looked under the right post. It was quite easy to see from the footpath. The log in this cache was inside an old film pot which was then inside a slightly larger container, making it extra dry!
Walking along the footpath we discovered at the top of the cliff/hill there was what appeared to be, a cave! Running up was the only way but half way up you needed to grab on to the fallen tree otherwise you'd loose momentum and fall back down!
Lewis was hoping there'd be something he could take from the cave like a skull or some bones.. sadly for him, there wasn't. Little Poppy made the climb of the hill look like a breeze as she didn't struggle to chase after us.
Lewis on the other hand made sure to take all of the safe ways down.. very slowly. Whereas I just slid down! On to the next cache!
Burpham - Fateful Farrier
Another cache that took finding the right tree and post to find the cache.
Burpham Link - Toxic
This cache could be seen from a distance, you could see the pile of rocks that were suspiciously stacked for the trained Geocachers eye's.
It suddenly became a race between Bumble Bean and Kashpop..
Which didn't really matter who won because I had the pen!
This cache was described as a joke of being in a series of Sewage farms, although stated it was a joke I was not convinced as it smelt bad. I had to take the cache away from the smell, anyone who knows me well knows I'm not good at handling bad strong smells. Ironically the cache is called Toxic and the container is an old Toxic Waste sweet pot. I'm really not convinced the sewage farm was a joke.
Despite the cave being an unsuccessful bone find for Lewis, this cache was not. Almost as if it was carefully placed next to the cache for Lewis to find was a bird skull. We think it's a crow but Lewis is going to take it into his University to be identified for collections.
Burpham Link - Help! My House Is Falling Down
A very interestingly placed cache, I'm unsure of the history of the fallen down house but you can clearly see where a fireplace once was and even the beams are still holding up. The cache isn't inside the house but you can't resist going in!
My mother was pretty determined to find the cache as she has yet to find one while out with us, we were all struggling to look for it until she dug her hand into a tree covered in ivy and pulled out the cache with a very proud look on her face. The cache was nicely hidden and slightly tougher to find as you didn't expect it to be strapped to the tree.
Burpham Link - A Salt Near Peppering Farm
An easy spot at the end of a footpath, the metal looked too suspicious to me! An interesting container for the log to be hidden inside. Wonder where the pepper pot is? Hope it isn't missing it's salt companion too much.
Church Micro 4282…Burpham
A co-ordinates cache that required working out some answers after locating the correct headstone. The co-ordinates lead you out of the church yard and to some telegraph poles, the cache is quite hard to spot as you'd assume it was part of the wire. It was also, for some reason, open to wind and rain, there didn't seem to be a lid or container to screw the pot into so the log was slightly delicate.
Burpham – School’s Out
Placed on a red telephone box, a very hard to spot cache. I couldn't even see it and was convinced it wasn't there as I assumed that what I was looking at was a bolt or part of the box. Very cleverly camouflaged! Of course I went inside, it's very hard not too even if I am British.
A Fine Pair # 14 ~ Burpham
Last cache we did today, a co-ordinates cache that lead us back along the path we just came. Sitting behind a sign was a little pot. Nice and easy!
We ended up walking 2.7 miles which isn't as much as previous cache hunts but the change in terrain made the pace slower. Kashpop's GPS didn't tell us how long we'd been walking for but it was around 2 and a half hours. It was a nice walk and we did complete one series among random caches. Me and Lewis will possibly head back one day to complete some other series that we started or maybe even start a new one!
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