The Mother Ship Hotel, Candy Woods is a large 3l plastic
container hidden in Candy Woods, above the North Shropshire town of
Oswestry. The cache is large enough to provide temporary
accommodation to a number of Travel Bugs and Swaps.
Mother Ship is Home to 5 Alien Travel Bugs who have lost their
way, they are presently dotted around the UK and World and are
trying to return home
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“ET come home” TB TB2RNRR was spotted in Holland on
23/10/10.
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The cache is hidden on Offa's Dyke Path - The National Trail,
the Path runs for 177 miles from Sedbury Cliffs on the Severn
Estuary near Chepstow to the North Wales resort of Prestatyn on
Liverpool Bay. For about 70 miles it follows the course of the
Eighth Century Offa's Dyke earthwork¸built by King Offa the King of
Mercia from 757 to 796 A.D
This is just a small section of the path but is a lovely walk
across the Race Course Common and through the woods, although the
paths are well signposted please be warned that they can be very
wet and muddy!!! There is another smaller cache hidden along
further along the path
the cache when placed includes Mother Alien Please do not
remove, log book. Pen, pencil, a die, and two cartoon
characters.
There is plenty of free car parking available at the well
signposted car park (52°52.025 N 003° 06.136 W)..
UPADTE 16/11/10 - " been reported that someone discovered a
metal ammon box in the area we have revisited the cache for a 2nd
time and had a good look, there is a 2nd "Archived Cache"Shropshire
Souvenir Cache 2 - Candy Wood hidden within 10m of the Mother Ship
cache, we have left the cache in place and are unsure of actions to
take but Mother ship is a large plastic container"