Barney's Bimble No.20 Traditional Cache

This is the 20th of a short series entitled Barney’s Bimble. After putting out the first ten which were well received, I decided to make a bit more of a dent in my cache container collection which her indoors was complaining was taking over the dining room. Today was such a lovely sunny day that I wanted to share a walk I do along the top of Farlington Marshes with the Grumpy Mutt aka Barney.

It is an easy albeit noisy (The A27 is the other side of the fence) walk along the Cycle / footpath with the caches being within easy reach of the path apart from a couple where you might have to take a couple of steps off, you do not have to enter the boundaries of the reserve to retrieve the caches.

This is one of those places that you see from the A27 as you drive bye and always mean to visit, but never quite get round to it. Why not visit the website http://www.hiwwt.org.uk and take a pleasant walk round the meandering paths of Marshes.

It is an easy albeit noisy (The A27 is the other side of the fence) walk along the Cycle / footpath with the caches being within easy reach of the path apart from a couple where you might have to take a couple of steps off, you do not have to enter the boundaries of the reserve to retrieve the caches.

WARNING: This is a cycle and footpath, which is very busy at rush hour and weekends. Please be aware that the cyclists travel along here very fast and make little or no noise so please check both ways / over your shoulder before moving onto the path from the verge or ACROSS the path.

Good luck, the caches were put out using a Garmin Etrex H if any of the coordinates are out please let me know and I will adjust them.

>These caches were placed with the kind permission of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust http://www.hiwwt.org.uk/..

This is one of those places that you see from the A27 as you drive by and always mean to visit, but never quite get round to it. Why not visit the website http://www.hiwwt.org.uk and take a pleasant walk round the meandering paths of Marshes.

Farlington Marshes is an area of reclaimed land in Langstone harbour.^[1] It was reclaimed from the harbour in 1771 and includes a larger part of what was formerly Binner's Island (the remainder of the island is now referred to as North Binness Island).^[1] Farlington Marshes is about 120 hectares in size and features both freshwater marsh and brackish marsh.^[2] It is a Local Nature Reserve^[3][4] and is a feeding ground for overwintering Brent geese.^[2] During World War 2 it was used as a starfish site acting as a decoy for Portsea Island.^[5] The control blockhouses remain on the marshes.