Glenisle's Kippford View Multi-Cache
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Palnackie has in past years hosted the World Flounder Tramping Championship in late July/early August. This is two part cache.
According to one of the previous organisers of the World Flounder Tramping Championships, "You wade barefoot into the mud of the Urr riverbed at low tide and walk up and down the submerged mudflats. You literally stand - or tramp - on the flounders. You know when you've stood on one because the fish moves, it's a very strange sensation. The secret is to keep your foot firmly on it because if you lift it, even a tiny bit, the flounder will be off like a shot. If you keep your foot steady, they kind of freeze and you are able to bend down and pick them up." The prize for winning, in addition to being able to call yourself the World Champion Flounder Tramper, was three bottles of whisky.
However, in recent years the number of flounders and other flat fish found in the Solway Firth has sadly declined dramatically resulting in few fish being caught in recent competitions. The final nail in the coffin was provided by Dumfries and Galloway Council in 2010, who insisted that in order to comply with Health and Safety requirements, the organisers had to obtain £400 worth of insurance as well as providing enough volunteers to steward the event safely. Not suprisingly, this led to the demise of the competition. Interestingly, in the forty years that the championships were held, no-one ever lost their life or sustained any major injury, apart from a few cuts to their bare feet from stones and shells buried in the mud. The event drew in hundreds of tourists as well as journalists and national television crews who filed jokey pieces on the subject.
On the 23rd of August 2014, the owners of the Glenisle Inn at Palnackie have heroically resurrected the competition and on a beautiful sunny day attracted nearly five hundred entrants and masses of spectators. With all day music, drink and food, everyone had a fantastic time. A few flounders were caught and all competitors came back coated in a rich layer of Solway mud and not a life lost or even any injuries! Two local charities and the RNLI benefitted to the tune of £1,000 each, which is really wonderful.
Perhaps, to commemorate this piece of harmless fun, Palnackie's tiny millenium park or viewpoint now contains some fine carvings of flounders. The park also has magnificent views over the Urr valley towards Dalbeattie. You need to find out how many carved fish there are in order to obtain the coordinates for the final cache.
Park your car in Palnackie Village and set off on foot, this is not a drive by cache series. The road and tracks to be followed are too narrrow to park and some are restricted as only for the access of residents vehicles.
Once you have counted how many fish there are, you are ready to look for the real cache, which is a clip box containing logbook, pen and several other objects.
If A = the number of fish then the coordinates of the cache are:-
N54 5A.741 W003 49.(2xA)01
Good luck and happy hunting!
Please note that in your search you may be looking for the cache near to a drystone dyke. Under no circumstances should any stones be removed from any dyke in your search, it is not necessary, as hiding caches within such walls or dykes is banned under Geocaching rules
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