If you are planning on including "Annie's Birthday Cache" in your walk, it will be beneficial if you do the "Cakewalk" in reverse order.
This is a circular walk of approximately 5 miles, and consists of 18 traditional caches and 1 unknown which is the bonus. Please be careful if you have dogs, as some of the walk is through fields that could have livestock.
The Cakewalk dance was developed from a "Prize Walk" done in the days of slavery, generally at get-togethers on plantations in the Southern United States. Alternative names for the original form of the dance were "chalkline-walk", and the "walk-around". At the conclusion of a performance of the original form of the dance in an exhibit at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, an enormous cake was awarded to the winning couple.
People who know me will perhaps notice the irony in the enormous cake that was awarded to the winning couple at the cakewalk dance, given my passion for baking cakes! Well presenting an enormous cake to the FTF cacher(s) is not going to be practical, so the prize therefore was a ‘FTF’ micro geocoin, which had been nestling in the bonus cache box, and is now in ownership of FTF cacher Broyleboxers!
The term "cakewalk" is often used to indicate something that is very easy or effortless. Though the dance itself could be physically demanding, it was generally considered a fun, recreational pastime. The phrase "takes the cake" also comes from this practice.
I think this definition of “cakewalk” can be applied in so many ways to geocaching, and the phrase “takes the cake” particularly applies to several geocaching friends, (you know who you are!) whose caching day is not complete unless it is rounded off with tea and cake!
Enjoy the “Cakewalk”!
Bonus can be found at:
N50 AB.CDE W000 FG.H0J
Keep your eyes peeled! The letter values are spread randomly throughout the walk (except for "I" which is 0 and is shown in the coords), and are written inside the screw top lid and on the log - so no excuses for missing them!
There are a couple of other caches in the area you might want to consider doing.
GC320K3 Annies Birthday Cache.
GC1H38G Step out in stile, an 'appetiser for breakfast'.
Look back over your shoulder as you reach the stile and you will see the South Downs rising through the trees.
As you climb the hill after #1, you will have a good view of St Hugh's Charterhouse, or as it is known locally Cowfold Monastery.