This was the sixth cache of the day whilst out with sarahjones65, RiggyRob and CathyMay on our continuing quest to do the whole of Anglesey before the end of 2009. We parked rather precariously alongside some other cars on a slope just off the road and in front of the gates to the footpath.
The path wound it's way along a wall through fields lined with gorse and blackberry hedges, every now and then giving some glimpses of the shoreline and the bay below. The sun was shining, the sky was blue and the heather was a blaze of purple in places. A couple of yachts had moored in the bay and some people were kayaking - the water looked beautiful.
Soon the brickworks chimneys came into view and we could see the small rather inacessible beach at one end of the bay. We carried on walking up the hill in the direction of a radio mast before turning left for the last section.
Then the Victorian Weightlifter came into view - ah, that's what it is! I'd been envisioning a circus performer with a pointy horizontal moustache and wearing a striped bathing suit all the time I was walking to the cache. Cathy found the cache inadvertently by sitting down on a large rock right next to it and Sarah extracted it from its hiding place. After doing the admin we explored the area a little further before returning happily to the car.
Now this is what all caches should be like - it's not about the numbers, it's about beautiful and interesting out of the way places that we wouldn't normally visit, isn't it?
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