When most people hear 'The Iron Man' they think of the massive juggernaut of the Marvel films that fill our cinemas, or perhaps of their comic book origins. But not me. The 'Iron Man' will always be a book of that same name from my childhood, written by English author (and later Poet Laureate) Ted Hughes.
This series of four caches is to celebrate this wonderful children's novel, and to enjoy some nice bushland and riverscape.
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The Iron Man arrives seemingly from nowhere. To survive, he feeds on local farm equipment. When the farm hands discover their destroyed tractors and diggers, a trap is set consisting of a covered pit on which a red lorry is set as bait. Hogarth, a local boy, lures the Iron Man to the trap. The plan succeeds, and the Iron Man is buried alive.