Dingle Delight - GC1PD4R

Out on a family caching expedition with sarahjones65, CathyMay and RiggyRob, we thought this was going to be a straightforward cache find at the end of a nice little walk - little did we know. We'd been to The Dingle before and so already knew how nice the area is - a little oasis in the busy town of Llangefni. On reading the information board we learnt that this steep-sided gorge was formed by glacial meltwater at the end of the Ice Age.

We parked in the car park at one end of the walk and set off with high hopes of an easy find. On walking past the carved standing logs at the entrance to trail, we chose to take the boardwalk rather than the path on the far side of the river - we'd gone that way before. This path wound its way under disused railway bridges and through tree-lined glades.

Soon the path opened out into a wider valley and back under the railway line again and we soon reached the point where previously we had crossed a little arched bridge over the river to follow a short but steep climb up the valley side and back to the road. We needed to go further up the valley than we'd been before where the path turned into a caged boardwalk over the fast flowing river.

We reached GZ (Ground Zero) at the end of this boardwalk and the GPSr indicated that the cache was somewhere close. We found several items mentioned in the hint, as well as an empty cider bottle stashed under the boardwalk, but could we find the cache - NO! We looked high and low for about twenty minutes with no luck.

Disappointed, we returned to the arched bridge and trod the familiar path up the valley side and back along the road to Llangefni town centre. Here we had pizza and beefburgers at a local takeaway before returning to the caravan.