Shore Patrol Traditional Cache
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This cache is in memory of our much-loved father & grandfather, Sandy Bell, who passed away September 2009 (we remember him too in our log for GC1VF2M Hill of Stracathro) and is placed at Saltersford Valley Nature Reserve and Picnic Area with the kind permission of the Country Park Ranger Service.
He loved fishing, in recent years for rainbow trout (for which our stomachs were grateful), and this place seems to us to be a most appropriate location for his grandchildren to actively remember the man they knew as “fishing Grandad”. A Scout in his youth and precision engineer by profession, he would have loved Geocaching, but sadly we didn’t discover it early enough ourselves to introduce him to it.
“Shore Patrol” was the name he gave to the osprey he regularly saw while fishing and he delighted in telling his grandchildren stories about this bird that would come and tell him where the best fish were to be found that day!
CONGRATULATIONS to the FieldingFive on FTF
Original cache contents:
First to Find button badge
Sealed packet of fish hooks, fish float
Scotland spinner keyring, trolley token, rubber, pencil sharpener
Leics Scout keyring, Leics Scout county badge, Ashby district Scout badge, Guide nametape, plastic Guide bookmark
We released Shore Patrol the Rainbow Trout TB here, to travel in search of the world’s fishing locations. We also chose this cache to release a TB for the grandson he never met: Arran's Tiger.
Please respect the environment: this cache is retrievable just off the main footpaths. As of 20 Dec 2009 it is in a new hidey hole further from the water, so doesn't risk floating away any more! Please replace as found.
This is a 7 hectare site with open water areas known as “flashes”. These resulted from mining subsidence that caused the Saltersford Brook to flood. There are sites planted with new native woodland and open areas managed as grassland, which feature wild flowers. The stone-surfaced paths are suitable for all users.
Parking is available at the nature reserve car park (daylight opening hours, 2m height restriction) N52° 43.065 W001° 31.286.
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