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We aimed for 4 or 5 (I couldn't quite tell if we could get to one of the caches from the map) but managed to find 3.
The 3 around the lake were not buggy-friendly, so we put Sam in the carrier. It works much better when Matt uses it.
Found the first cache after a while going round in circles as the GPS kept jumping around. This one you could get fairly close witha buggy, but you'd need someone to watch the baby while you tramped into the undergrowth.
The second cache wasn't too far away, but after walking up and down for a bit we realised we needed to be the other side of a stream... so had to cross this:
Luckily Sam was strapped to Matt, as I'm quite nervous of jumping rocks after seriously damaging my leg in Japan! But we found it:
Sam seemed to be enjoying the trip!
On the way to the third cache we got some nice views of the lake, and Sam fell asleep!
The third one would have been very muddy in wet weather, so I'm glad we didn't leave this too late in the year. The forth cache was not to be found :-( Sam was asleep by now, and the GPS was pointing me well off the beaten track, so I left Matt and went stomping through the undergrowth. Looking at the clue I think I had the right tree, but there was no sign of the cache. I hope I was just not looking properly. I stumbled across a nice path, but when I tried to follow it back to Matt it started going off in the wrong direction, so I ended up stomping through the prickles again to find my way back to him. Then we finished our walk around the lake, and caught a bit of a Rugby match (Aldershot & Fleet against an unknown opponent) before coming home.
