Sunday 24 May 2009

Wylfa Ruins - GC1BZ4H

After being unsuccessful at the disabled Caerdegog Stones cache, sarahjones65, CathyMay, RiggyRob and myself were looking for our first find of the day here.

We parked on the main road and walked along the footpath towards Wylfa Power Station. I couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable here knowing that this was once a nuclear power station. I have usually avoided the north end of Anglesey because of the threat of radiation contamination in the area. This is probably unfounded, but why take the risk? Anyway, today I had not thought about it until now.
After crossing a field we approached a small beach cove before deciding that we needed to go back inland a little and towards some trees in front of Wylfa. We cut across the long grass and headed for a wall. Soon we could see the ruins of more walls and buildings and Cath and Sarah headed off for a corner as suggested in the clue. After a few minutes of searching they had found the cache under some stones.

We signed the log and dropped off a TB before heading back for the car. Now if we'd done our research better, we'd have realised that our next cache (Moe's Tavern) was just a little further along the headland from here. Instead, we only realised this when we got back to the car, and couldn't face walking all the way back where we had just been - nevermind, we'll back on another day.

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