Pagham, again! - Geocache

Pagham Reserve

Took a trip back to Pagham today just so we cleared both the caches! It was a lovely warm day but the terrain was quite muddy and wet in areas. We didn't take our latest trackable because we'd checked the logs and seen it's not really visited frequently enough. 

The cache is a Premium cache so those who don't have Premium can unfortunately not take part but alas I shall show you otherwise! 

 Along our travels I spotted a little lady bug in the grass, with my super hawk vision I picked him up. They are so happy to just crawl onto your hand and sit there it makes me wonder if they're scared or not. 

  Returned him to a little nice patch of long grass with some dandelions in, he (or she) went on their way!

The cache can be found by looping around a footpath, it was 850m for the start of the reserve so it's not too far of a walk. It's quite a quick footpath walk compared to the rest of the others so it's a nice easy pick up. The cache itself is also big, has lots of things inside and lots of cachers cards that people have dropped off. Not many people do this cache so the log book dates back to 2007 where people have left longer messages as a sort of journal of cachers!

 There's plenty of swaps inside and easy for trackables to be dropped off. Suring the summer perhaps this gets more visits from the near by holiday caravan park but at the moment we were the second visitors of the year.

A nice little cache, not hard to find (just wear something long sleeves otherwise you'll risk getting an arm full of needles). I did reset my trip counter but it seemed to have not worked so unfortunately I don't know how long we walked for, probably about 40 minutes maybe less.. It was around 1.8 miles in distance. If you like nice views and birds then it's a nice cache to do!

Pagham View - Geocache

Took a walk around Pagham Harbour today, (we started at Pagham Rife rather than the RSPB Harbour side), and decided to do a cache along the way. It's called Pagham View! It's size is Micro and it's more of a cache for those experienced with the ways of clever hiding spots. The weather has suddenly turned sunny and warmer so it actually made a nicer walk than the ones we've been doing over the winter getting freezing hands and runny noses. 

This is the "start" of Pagham Harbour, the Geocache was 200m from this spot. Along the left hand side of the image you can see a wall, the path towards the cache was along there, the path is still accessable even when the tide is in. There is a footpath along the road nearby which acts as a short cut if you aren't happy with the closeness of water or very muddy shoes! 

This is the spot we reached that the location of the cache can be found, the clue was that it would send you nutty. One of the logs said that "Bolty loved it" so you can guess that it would definitely be hiding within a bolt on the gate.

It was very cleverly hidden, you had to unscrew this bolt and the other end worked as a cap with space inside for the log, looking at the fence as a regular walker you'd never ever assume it was anything but a bolt. It was a very pointless bolt though so it's the only real give away that it could be a cache.

 Unfortunately the log inside was completely wet and ruined. I didn't bring tweezers so it wasn't even worth trying to retrieve this cache log. We just screwed it back where we found it and let the owner know it required some major maintenance! Pagham Harbour is always nice for a walk even if you don't do any caches. There is another cache about 0.7 miles away following the main footpath back on the bridge we started at. It's about 15 minutes from this cache and we do plan to go back and find it another time! Sadly there aren't any other caches nearby in walking distance but it makes for a nice walk. 

View the cache yourself:

https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5C1XE_pagham-view