After last weekends successful geocaching the Cosgrove canal, we decided to spend another Sunday in similar pursuit, this time Geocaching in Campbell Park, Milton Keynes, today's hunt was slightly more difficult though as the majority of the caches are multi-caches that require a lot more thought than simply following the GPS and hunting the undergrowth.
I must write (or get Zoe to write) an advanced geocaching tutorial, explaining the other types of cache in detail (look out for that soon).
Geocaching in Campbell Park
After an unhealthy (MacDonalds) bite to eat, and a few photos of Starlings in the outdoors square of CMK Shopping center (I've lived in Milton Keynes for over 30 years, and I have no idea what it is called?) we headed up to Campbell park to start our Geocaching exploits.
Starling resting on a Deck Chair
Starlings after chips
My beautiful Daughter
Starting at the Campbell Park Rose (the really interestingly designed war memorial) we cracked on with the first cache of the day, a puzzling test of our ability to first find clues hidden on the various posts, and then do some maths. Thankfully Tubs is a bit of a maths geek, he is quick as a tack and it is a subject he excels at, so while I used my phones calculator, he beat me to the punch on a number of sums!
Once we had figured out all the maths, we had our new co-ordinates, the location of the actual cache, and so we programmed it into the Geocaching app and headed off through the bushes in search of a small plastic box (it really is a crazy, but fun, hobby). The only issue was a rather large Brown Rat that ran down the same hedge we were hunting in (My one animal I really can't stand!).
Zoe and Tubs looking for clues
Cache two was another puzzle, this one a series of clues dotted around the top of the park, each clue giving us another number for our list (a notebook was very much needed for today's geocaching), again plenty of running around ensued and we soon had all the numbers clues we needed, only one giving us a a real issue, the prickly bushes having grown a little recently).
Once done, some more number crunching and we were off on a long walk away from our current location, the actual cache location being some distance from the actual park. Kicking through fallen deep chestnut conkers, many still in their spiky shells, and wind blown apples we eventually located the small plastic box signed the slip and headed back to the park.
Hunting through the bushes
This Way...
I'm coming...
Um... it's 20 metres that way!
Some Swag
We met up with our friends for a bit of Pokemon hunting (Campbell park is great for Charmander at the moment) and a walk around the park before heading home. Not quite the numbers of caches or kilometres covered as last weekend but it was still great fun.
Extra Campbell Park Photos
Beacon at Campbell Park
Beacon at Campbell Park
Another of the Beacon
Walking the Park (triplets off somewhere)
Yet another beacon shot
Totem pole
Campbell Park Cricket Pavillion
Grand Union Canal
Grand Union Canal
Looking Out over the park
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