Treasure hunting

Finally yours truly got some free time to head off treasure hunting today, I have known since the start of June of the approximate location of hidden treasure on the ridge, the location given on the interweb in a nerdy but compelling game of geocaching. Since finding out about it and now having mastered the GPS technology I just had to join in. Hence yours truly spending twenty minutes of his life looking at this pile of rocks on Hergest Ridge

to find this box of old tat. No gems, no gold, nothing precious save for the satisfaction of finding it, a box that has been there for some years, last found earlier this month according to the log book. According to the rules of the game I was entitled to take the swordless plastic medieval knight or the broken bottle opener, provided I leave something in return, which I did, but what I left remains a closely guarded secret until its found but rest assured its worth about as much as the plastic tat and broken bottle opener combined. If I continue the game, and there is another treasure trove within 3k of this one, I leave the bottle opener in that and take something else and so on. Some of this tat is on a mission to get places, other bits have been on exciting adventures around the world already. But not in this box.

But there is Gold in them there hills

and the reward on the return journey was

massive. These pics taken on a mobile phone

don't do justice to the natural beauty of our back yard.

Naturally theres a Berner in the picture somewhere, you can just make out Elf in the sunlight.

And here's the sun setting over Gladestry.