Parking up in the nearby canal car park, this cache is a short walk along the canal, with plenty of other caches around to make a day of it.
The Kennet and Avon canal links England's Canals via the River Thames at Reading with the Bristol Channel.
As the canal's name suggest it's partially a river navigation since it uses the River Kennet between Reading and Newbury and the River Avon between Bath and Bristol. The purely "canal" part of the waterway is 57 miles in length out of a total distance of 100.25 miles. The River Kennet was turned into a river navigation for goods traffic in 1723 creating a route to the River Thames for transporting various goods to London and into the Midlands including timber, malt, flour and cheese and the returning barges carried bulk goods such as coal and iron. The barges used on the navigation were considerably larger than standard canal narrow boats and a feature of the whole Kennet and Avon Canal are the large locks.
There are many flavours of wildlife to look out for along this stretch of the canal (depending on the time of year): Swans and ducks, herons, woodpeckers, dragonflies, damselflies, even a kingfisher when the water is deep. While passing the cache, to the next lock you will see many narrow barges.. all of the normal size bar one.. a wider barge just before the lock, with all the trapping of an amazing home, including cheeky dogs. 