It was quite a long walk to this cache location from the previous one. However this was made very interesting by a feature along the way - the Plank Lane Bridge over the Leeds - Liverpool Canal.
As we approached the Bridge, Sarah and I debated if it was the one we were thinking of. I sometimes used to drive down Plank Lane from Tyldesley on my way to work in Golborne. There used to be a lot more buildings and mine workings around here, and from the canal things looked different. I wasn't sure it was the one.
The bridge looked very different too. Sarah was convinced that the original ironwork which lifted the bridge has be replaced with a smaller, more compact structure. I thought it might just have been painted different colour as it is now grey when it used to be reddish.
Anyway, the bridge was being lifted as we approached to let the muggles on the canal boat we had seen earlier through. As we got to the road over the canal, the bridge was back in place and the cars were crossing again. It was the one we were thinking of and it made an interesting an unusal viewpoint to see all this from the canal, rather than from a car on the road.
After reading the information boards around the bridge we walked on to the cache. We soon found the location near a field which presumably has sheep in it most of the time, hence the name of the cache. Today there were none to be seen anywhere - maybe they've already met their fate.
Hooray! - this one was there if a little (well, a lot) wet. It seemed to be an old pepperpot sealed with insulation tape, but the seal wasn't very good and the log book had turned into papier machee. I was impossible to sign it and so I just left one of my newly-made calling cards - My GeekTeacher avatar and blog address on a laminated credit card sized piece of paper. At least it records that I found it.
With a successful find recorded, we went on with some hope to our final cache of the morning.
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