The Ex-Shanklin 'Girls' (The Nickster (N), and Mum (H) of SPO and Mum), having been friends for 40 years (50 years in spring 2021!), placed some caches to celebrate.
Our friendship began at the Gatten & Lake Primary School (opened in 1883) in Howard Road, shortly after Easter 1971, in Mrs Webster's class. We left Gatten & Lake in 1975.
The school relocated in 2013 and the building has been converted into flats and houses - but sadly the Gatten & Lake name was not retained - it's unimaginatively named 'Old School Mews' instead.
If you also attended G&L, please tell us in your logs, and we'd love to see any photos of you (the dafter the better!) from that period, on the cache gallery.
The cache is on a very busy path, and muggles can come at you from 3 directions, so stealth is required.
You're looking for a long, thin, cylindrical container.
No need to search on or around litter or dog poo bins.
In order to claim the Nostalgia - Bonus cache (GC3HT2J) you need to find (nearly) all 13 of the other Nostalgia caches and make a note of the letters and numbers from their log books and/or cache containers.
If completing this series as a circular walk, we suggest the following caches next:
Clockwise; GC5X18A Nostalgia - M&A's Emerald Wedding Anniversary. Follow the cliff top path ups and downs, cross Hope Road and continue up the hill.
Anti-clockwise;- GC39Q5K Nostalgia - Welcome Steps. Go N along the obvious cliff top path, and down the steps.
Congratulations to Bouton (aka Lavender LatLongers) on the FTF.