Bolt Upright - GC28J76

After spending most of the weekend doing DIY jobs in the kitchen, I went out with Sarah for a quick spot of geocaching for a bit of a break. We parked just off the main road and soon found the footpath up this pretty little wooded stream. As we approached ground zero, we could just see the tops of two giant bolts through the rampant vegetation which has grown much taller than us.

Carrying on up the path we found the stream mentioned in the description but the bank seemed too steep and slippy to get down. So we walked a little further up the path hoping to find an easier place to cross - no luck however.

We decided to return to the previous crossing place and found it not to be as bad as it had first seemed. There were a couple of pieces of corrugated metal conveniently placed across the stream as a makeshift bridge and soon we had safely got down the bank and had crossed over the water.

As we counted down on the GPSr, the two large bolts came into full view. They were amazing and we'd never have known they were here without doing this geocache - it's such as shame that they have been covered in grafitti.

Using the hint we found the cache fairly easily as it was lying quite exposed on the floor - it seemed to have fallen out of its correct location. We normally only take travel bugs to move on nowadays, but for some obscure reason we also collect dinosaurs from caches and as there was one here we couldn't resist. Sorry we didn't have anything to leave today.

After doing the admin of signing the log, Sarah decided to replace the container where she thought it should have been, in a position in keeping with the hint but a little more hidden. On returning to the crossing point we met a group of two geocaching teams also looking for this cache - their GPSr gave them away so we knew what they were doing right away, As it turns out they knew me from my job and after a pleasant conversation we set off in opposite directions. Good luck GreenMachine et al - I hope you found it.

Thanks for bringing us to this little gem of a location which is on our doorstep but was previously unknown to us - that's what's so good about this hobby.