Services (M74 SDB Series) Traditional Geocache
JackieC: Archiving due to deterioration of area (and lots of cacher drift with the cache placement).
Will find a nicer spot at the services over Easter for a new SDB.2011
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Services (M74 SDB Series)
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Some call them 'motorway mayhem' caches, some call them 'one for the numbers' caches, or even 'SDBs'; but regardless of their name they are a welcome stop to break up a journey. All caches in this little series have are designed to entertain and educate cachers heading north, look out for a bonus piece of trivia on the underside of the cache lid!
The last (well most northerly) cache of the series and is placed on the outskirts of Abingdon Services. From the cache site you can again see the river Clyde.
So heres some facts about Scottish bodies of water......
Scotland has approximately 10,000km of coastline, with only 3,900km mainland coast (and 800 islands)
The river Tay is the longest river in Scotland at 193km. The Clyde is the third longest at 171km (with the Spey second with 172km)
Deepest Loch is Loch Morar, Lochaber (1077ft/328m deep)
Longest inland loch is Loch Awe, Argyll (25 miles/41km long)
Longest sea loch is Loch Fyne, Argyll (approx 44 miles/71km long)
Loch Lomond Loch Lomond is the largest expanse of fresh water in Britain (measuring 27.5 square miles) but at 22.6 miles long it is only the third longest loch in Scotland (Lochs Awe and Ness are longer).
Loch Lomond is the third deepest loch in Scotland (after Lochs Morar and Loch Ness). It is 5 miles wide at its broadest point and has 30 islands, three of which are inhabited. There are more species of fish in the loch than any other in Scotland, including the "powan" which may be descended from salt-water herring marooned there after the last ice age.
There is only one natural lake in the whole of Scotland, the Lake of Menteith in Stirlingshire. This unusual name is believed to be a corruption of the Lowland Scots Laich o Menteith, where "laich" simply means "low place".
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Onfr bs gerr, jngpu bhg sbe arggyrf!