I chose four caches to do today in Conwy as an introduction to geocaching for The Walshes, some of our relatives - I was pretty sure they'd love it, and they did. We started at this cache with what I thought would be a fairly straightforward find, but it actually proved to be a little more challenging than expected. After explaining what geocaching was all about (to some puzzlement at times) we set off from the Knight's Shop on route to the far side of the castle. Geocaching newbie Liam was guiding us with the GPSr held out in front of him, and I needed to keep reminding him to use his eyes first and not to follow the GPSr pointer without looking where he was going!
Once there, we walked into a small park with a bowling green it and the GPSr seemed to be pointing across a chasm towards the river below or even over to the railway line in front of the castle. After deciding it couldn't be down there (and stopping Liam from climbing down!) we remembered that there was a path around the castle base and so decided to walk further round and up a short sloping footpath to it - however when we got near the castle our way was blocked by some gates and the GPSr was pointing back across the chasm. Hmmn!
Turning on my cacher's brain I suggested that we had been right first time and the coordinates might be slightly out - I said we needed to go back, all the time hoping that we'd find this one - a DNF on the first cache might put them off geocaching for life. Anyway, they didn't see too bothered to return to the first location as it only took a few minutes. On entering the bowling park I could see some likely places for caches to be hidden and after making some suggestions, Liam quickly found it. I felt a sense of relief and the rest of the family seemed to be quite pleased. More converts and another successful mission!
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