Just back from a weeks holiday on Ynys Môn aka Anglesey, just off the coast of North Wales. Whilst visiting the island we took the opportunity to find some caches as we went around.
21/08/2010
On the way to Anglesey we stopped off at the RSBP in Conway and after a walk around the nature reserve there, did a cache just outside the reserve.
GCKKKN - Watch the Birdie
The cache was hidden in amongst a stony bank onto the estuary. Great hiding place but not good when the GPS bounces about a bit and you have a few stones to look under. Good view of the Conway Suspension Bridge from this cache.
22/08/2010
A visit to Holy Island and the beach of Porth Dafarch for the day.
GC1FE2D - Porthdafarch Heights
Great stealth needed for this cache! Although hidden well, it was in plain view of a caravan park and lots of muggles were sitting out enjoying the sun. The cache itself was hidden inside a green plastic bag that was the quietest of materials!!! very noisy which didn't help my stealth tactics.
En-route back to where we were staying we did a few caches on
GC23EMF – A5 Drive-By – Historic Route / Llwybr Hanesyddol
Cleverly hidden micro cache. I was almost going to give up on this one until I spotted a piece of wire hanging that when pulled, produced the cache container. Mirco's are okay, but I find its sometimes a pain to re roll the log small/thin enough to get back into the containers. Remember if your out caching to take a pair of tweezers with you. A very handy piece of kit for retrieving logs that have fallen down into the container and not easy to get out,
GC23EKQ – A5 Drive-By – FAB
Nice easy find this time with the favourite 35mm film canister. Sometimes these are so obvious you miss them looking to hard.
23/08/2010
GC1BF4Q – Ghost House
A visit to Trearddur Bay and the Ghost House cache. Its not really a Ghost/Haunted house, but it does have that look and feel to it, almost like it should be in an episode of Scooby Doo. Launched the fourth of my travel bugs (first this holiday) – Search and Rescue II
GC23EMP – A5 Drive-By – Now this is a view!
Another one in the A5 series. Parking near to a great view of the Menai Straights and both bridges. A good size cache in a lay by.
Decided to do a section of the A5025 back to our accommodation in a Cache and Dash style. Quick stops in lay bys.
GC1V4QZ – 3 Camps Conumdrum
Small cache hidden just off the road.
GC1YQFJ - “Please share my Umbrella”
One of the problems with caching on a busy road is how do you look like your not Geocaching and not look suspicious!. One of the logs for this cache reads “A very busy road so lots of my daughter pretending to be sick!!!” Interesting tactics. Usually the cars are going that fast that you dont normally get a second glance. Find sometimes its best to just get on with it.
GC1YQFE – The Ancient Station
Final one of the day for Drive by Caching.
24/08/2010
We went to Beaumaris for a look around and a visit to the castle, however the heavens opened and the rain and wind made the visit not pleasant. We were hoping to go on to Puffin Island, but no chance in this storm. So bravely between downpours we did two micro caches.
GC11JKD – (Almost a Concentric Castle View)
As we didn't want to get soaked by the weather as the Castle was ruins and open, the next best thing was a quick look at the outside and pass by. Will do it another time. So this cache was well placed near to the castle.
GC227KP – Beaumaris Micro
***SPOLILER***, just to point that out before you read on about this particular cache.
This is the second cache I have found that is hidden within a post of some description. The cord attached to a sign and then going under the post cap gave it away. Not sure if these are a good idea as you need to stand there and force the cap off but we managed signed the log and carefully replaced the cap correctly.
Moving back inland and to get some shelter from the weather;
GC2AT33 – Can't see the wood for the trees!
Still raining we stopped in a small lay by and I went to retrieve the cache. This lay by leads to a Squirrel Walk, pity it was raining as Anglesey is one of the only places left in the UK where you can find the native Red Squirrel. I found the cache and returned to the car to check its contents and sign the log. As I opened the car door and bent inwards, the wife let out an almighty shreek, as sitting on my back was a large spider. LOL. Soon put the little!! (which was of course HUGE!!) spider back in the undergrowth.
GC1TKG8 – The Behind Bodafon Scuttle TB Hotel by the Sea
Though we would visit a TB Hotel and launch another Travel Bug – second this holiday “Aces High”. There was another cache that we went to look for before this one “Dingle Dangle Benllech” but with a muggle working on his van near by it was difficult to look. Wish we had put our walking boots on for this one or wellies as the path to the TB Hotel was fairly muddy. Got there in the end after doing some jumps and odd strides to miss the worse of the mud.
GC1WB9J – The Old Kissing Gate
Tweezers were needed on this one. The log was well and truly within the cache container. Signed and moved on after carefully rolling very tightly back.
The weather by this time had cleared up and the sun came out. We decided to do our first Earth Cache, and a nearby cache as well. There were actually 2 Earth Caches, just in walking distance of each other.
GC1V3R7 – This chicken got religion!
The nearby cache to the Earth Caches an short walking distance of the parking spot. There was a large plastic spider in this cache so swapped that out and thought about giving it to the wife based on the earlier arachnid incident.
GC1G4KQ – Din Lligwy Village
Din Lligwy is an ancient Romano-British settlement and is built on and from a weathered pavement of Carboniferous Limestone. The settlement covers an area of about half an acre and has been dated to the 4th century AD. The site includes the remains of 9 huts, two of which are circular. Remains of hearths and the debris they contain indicate that iron was smelted here.
This well-preserved and well-known complex of stone houses is located within a stone enclosure on Anglesey. Its an interesting combination of round and rectangular huts, which some historians have suggested is indicative of an Iron Age villa. The houses stone walls and defences comprise limestone slabs, standing up straight on their edges. Some of these buildings would have been domestic, others were workshops. Finds including metalwork, pottery and glassware indicate a settlement which continued into the Roman period.
21/08/2010
On the way to Anglesey we stopped off at the RSBP in Conway and after a walk around the nature reserve there, did a cache just outside the reserve.
GCKKKN - Watch the Birdie
The cache was hidden in amongst a stony bank onto the estuary. Great hiding place but not good when the GPS bounces about a bit and you have a few stones to look under. Good view of the Conway Suspension Bridge from this cache.
22/08/2010
A visit to Holy Island and the beach of Porth Dafarch for the day.
GC1FE2D - Porthdafarch Heights
Great stealth needed for this cache! Although hidden well, it was in plain view of a caravan park and lots of muggles were sitting out enjoying the sun. The cache itself was hidden inside a green plastic bag that was the quietest of materials!!! very noisy which didn't help my stealth tactics.
En-route back to where we were staying we did a few caches on
GC23EMF – A5 Drive-By – Historic Route / Llwybr Hanesyddol
Cleverly hidden micro cache. I was almost going to give up on this one until I spotted a piece of wire hanging that when pulled, produced the cache container. Mirco's are okay, but I find its sometimes a pain to re roll the log small/thin enough to get back into the containers. Remember if your out caching to take a pair of tweezers with you. A very handy piece of kit for retrieving logs that have fallen down into the container and not easy to get out,
GC23EKQ – A5 Drive-By – FAB
Nice easy find this time with the favourite 35mm film canister. Sometimes these are so obvious you miss them looking to hard.
23/08/2010
GC1BF4Q – Ghost House
A visit to Trearddur Bay and the Ghost House cache. Its not really a Ghost/Haunted house, but it does have that look and feel to it, almost like it should be in an episode of Scooby Doo. Launched the fourth of my travel bugs (first this holiday) – Search and Rescue II
GC23EMP – A5 Drive-By – Now this is a view!
Another one in the A5 series. Parking near to a great view of the Menai Straights and both bridges. A good size cache in a lay by.
Decided to do a section of the A5025 back to our accommodation in a Cache and Dash style. Quick stops in lay bys.
GC1V4QZ – 3 Camps Conumdrum
Small cache hidden just off the road.
GC1YQFJ - “Please share my Umbrella”
One of the problems with caching on a busy road is how do you look like your not Geocaching and not look suspicious!. One of the logs for this cache reads “A very busy road so lots of my daughter pretending to be sick!!!” Interesting tactics. Usually the cars are going that fast that you dont normally get a second glance. Find sometimes its best to just get on with it.
GC1YQFE – The Ancient Station
Final one of the day for Drive by Caching.
24/08/2010
We went to Beaumaris for a look around and a visit to the castle, however the heavens opened and the rain and wind made the visit not pleasant. We were hoping to go on to Puffin Island, but no chance in this storm. So bravely between downpours we did two micro caches.
GC11JKD – (Almost a Concentric Castle View)
As we didn't want to get soaked by the weather as the Castle was ruins and open, the next best thing was a quick look at the outside and pass by. Will do it another time. So this cache was well placed near to the castle.
GC227KP – Beaumaris Micro
***SPOLILER***, just to point that out before you read on about this particular cache.
This is the second cache I have found that is hidden within a post of some description. The cord attached to a sign and then going under the post cap gave it away. Not sure if these are a good idea as you need to stand there and force the cap off but we managed signed the log and carefully replaced the cap correctly.
Moving back inland and to get some shelter from the weather;
GC2AT33 – Can't see the wood for the trees!
Still raining we stopped in a small lay by and I went to retrieve the cache. This lay by leads to a Squirrel Walk, pity it was raining as Anglesey is one of the only places left in the UK where you can find the native Red Squirrel. I found the cache and returned to the car to check its contents and sign the log. As I opened the car door and bent inwards, the wife let out an almighty shreek, as sitting on my back was a large spider. LOL. Soon put the little!! (which was of course HUGE!!) spider back in the undergrowth.
GC1TKG8 – The Behind Bodafon Scuttle TB Hotel by the Sea
Though we would visit a TB Hotel and launch another Travel Bug – second this holiday “Aces High”. There was another cache that we went to look for before this one “Dingle Dangle Benllech” but with a muggle working on his van near by it was difficult to look. Wish we had put our walking boots on for this one or wellies as the path to the TB Hotel was fairly muddy. Got there in the end after doing some jumps and odd strides to miss the worse of the mud.
GC1WB9J – The Old Kissing Gate
Tweezers were needed on this one. The log was well and truly within the cache container. Signed and moved on after carefully rolling very tightly back.
The weather by this time had cleared up and the sun came out. We decided to do our first Earth Cache, and a nearby cache as well. There were actually 2 Earth Caches, just in walking distance of each other.
GC1V3R7 – This chicken got religion!
The nearby cache to the Earth Caches an short walking distance of the parking spot. There was a large plastic spider in this cache so swapped that out and thought about giving it to the wife based on the earlier arachnid incident.
GC1G4KQ – Din Lligwy Village
Din Lligwy is an ancient Romano-British settlement and is built on and from a weathered pavement of Carboniferous Limestone. The settlement covers an area of about half an acre and has been dated to the 4th century AD. The site includes the remains of 9 huts, two of which are circular. Remains of hearths and the debris they contain indicate that iron was smelted here.
This well-preserved and well-known complex of stone houses is located within a stone enclosure on Anglesey. Its an interesting combination of round and rectangular huts, which some historians have suggested is indicative of an Iron Age villa. The houses stone walls and defences comprise limestone slabs, standing up straight on their edges. Some of these buildings would have been domestic, others were workshops. Finds including metalwork, pottery and glassware indicate a settlement which continued into the Roman period.
GC1G45H – Din Lligwy Burial Chamber
The Burial Chamber is an ancient communal burial place which when excavated in 1908 the bones of several men, women and children were found. There were also remains of animal bones, shells, flint tools, pottery and a bone pin in the chamber. The pottery style indicates it was in use from the late Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age. Limestone Fissures In Anglesey the Carboniferous limestone is cut by numerous fissures that are filled with Mesozoic sediments (sedimentary dykes, neptunian dykes).
These places are steeped in history and tell many stories.
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