Astley Green Colliery

This was to be our first EarthCache and it took us a while to work out what this meant. Instead of finding the usual hidden cache box brimmed full of goodies, this cache is an educational trip whereby the point of the visit is to learn something.

The cache owner wanted us to answer some geology questions about coal mining and to e-mail the answers to him before we could log the cache as 'found'. We also had to take a picture of ourselves in front of the pit head lifting gear with our GPS unit.

Unfortunately, in spite of the grounds being open, the actual museum part which holds the required information was closed, and so we will have to revisit this one before we can log it as found. We did take the photograph however.

An interesting concept these EarthCaches.

Check out this cache here: Astley Green Colliery at geocaching.com