I had done a reccy in the car one night last week to get an approximate idea where we would be going for this one. We set off walking from home along the same route as we used last week. If you remember, we had intended to do two caches on the same day last week, and this is the one we had to abandon due to the rain.
After crossing the East Lancs Road we headed on towards the Red Rose Mining Museum at Astley Colliery. Here is the last remaining pit head lifting gear in the whole of Lancashire, or so I am told. There is an earth cache here and we intended to do this one on the way back. Onwards down Higher Green Lane and over the Bridgewater Canal, stopping briefly to take in the view and some pictures on the top of the bridge. Then down towards the public footpath which marks the start of the trail where the cache is hidden.
After a few minutes walking down the footpath the GPS indicated that we needed to leave the path and venture into the woods. After five minutes of seraching all the likely suspects mentioned in the clue we found it. It was a small plastic container, larger than the first one we had found and hidden in a cammoflage bag - what a good idea!
We couldn't sign the log book as there was nothing to write with and being geocaching newbies we hadn't brought anything ourselves - that will be rectified next time as we'll be packing a geocaching bag filled with useful items to take on all future expeditions. We'll go back and do it sometime soon. Satisified with our success we decided to take the pretty route back across the meadow to the disused colliery, where we began the second cache hunt today.
Check out this cache here: The Nostalgia Series - Coal Not Dole at geocaching.com.
After crossing the East Lancs Road we headed on towards the Red Rose Mining Museum at Astley Colliery. Here is the last remaining pit head lifting gear in the whole of Lancashire, or so I am told. There is an earth cache here and we intended to do this one on the way back. Onwards down Higher Green Lane and over the Bridgewater Canal, stopping briefly to take in the view and some pictures on the top of the bridge. Then down towards the public footpath which marks the start of the trail where the cache is hidden.
After a few minutes walking down the footpath the GPS indicated that we needed to leave the path and venture into the woods. After five minutes of seraching all the likely suspects mentioned in the clue we found it. It was a small plastic container, larger than the first one we had found and hidden in a cammoflage bag - what a good idea!
We couldn't sign the log book as there was nothing to write with and being geocaching newbies we hadn't brought anything ourselves - that will be rectified next time as we'll be packing a geocaching bag filled with useful items to take on all future expeditions. We'll go back and do it sometime soon. Satisified with our success we decided to take the pretty route back across the meadow to the disused colliery, where we began the second cache hunt today.
Check out this cache here: The Nostalgia Series - Coal Not Dole at geocaching.com.
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