Having two visitors come and see us in Bedford this weekend, Matt and Adam. We decided to explore the local area and headed out for the Millennium Country Park in Bedford (or near)? I completely forgot to take pictures during this journey but luckily Matt had his camera. He may not have taken pictures of every cache we did but I'll use what I have to show our caching journey.
MVT Tree Man Letterbox (Stewartby)
The first cache has no hint, most of the caches in this area are explained in the name of the cache so you can easily find what you're looking for. This took us a while to find because we assumed the bird box was, well, a bird box. Never assume when geocaching. This was Adam's first ever find so congrats, Adams first cache and find!
This cache had a stamp inside but we hadn't bought any ink, it was a damp log but space inside to write in. It was a great hide, I just hope no little birds have tried to get inside to make a home only to be pushed out by a cache!
MVT Bobbies (Stewartby)
All these caches are nice little hides, hidden among objects and luckily we found this little guy while moving some logs off the cache. He's a small little salamander guarding the cache and protecting it from Muggles!
Moving on!
MVT Horse Trail (Stewartby)
This one we had to do a little "navigating" to get too.. Probably best for little ones or those that don't mind crawling along to reach the cache. Matt stayed behind so no actual cache pictures but Lewis retrieved a Kinder Egg toy because it looked exactly the same as the car on Matt's Sat Nav, so now it is stuck inside his car. Luckily it was a dry day for shimmying through.
MVT Bark Off (Stewartby)
Finding this cache just by pushed this tree support, with no tree actually inside. An easy find but more venturing into bushes.
MVT Bluebird in a palm tree (Stewartby)
At first we thought this cache has been muggled as there were suspicious holes around the front area, the cache is found round the back, full but found!
MVT 20 Jurassic Park (Stewartby)
This is a great cache, hidden under a pile of logs, we got Matt singing the theme tune to Jurassic Park as we made the discovery!
Again we were greeted with a protector, a toad. It was very suitable considering Toads are quite dinosaur like.. ish.
MVT Caution! Crossing Point (Stewartby)
This last cache we did (but definitely not the last cache in this series) is the smallest of the finds yet. We actually couldn't sign the log because the log was so squashed into the tube we couldn't retrieve it.
After this cache you can carry on the path and follow up until you can either turn left or right. Right takes you back to the car park whereas left can take you on to the next loop of caches round the lake. The route we took is about 2.2 miles and took us roughly an hour and 45 minutes, stopping to look for caches. It's a very nice route, nice even terrain despite some caches requiring ducking and crawling. Nice to discover a new area and will head back with Lewis sometime to finish the loop!
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