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. Please put the caches back where you found them as many muggles like to walk in this area and some of the caches are close to the tracks.
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The next spring, the Iron Man digs himself free of the pit. To keep him out of the way, the boy Hogarth takes charge and brings the Iron Man to a metal scrap yard to feast. The Iron Man promises not to cause further trouble for the locals, as long as no one troubles him. Time passes, and the Iron Man is treated as merely another member of the community. However, astronomers monitoring the sky make a frightening new discovery; an enormous space-being, resembling a dragon, moving from orbit to land on Earth. The creature (soon dubbed the "Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon") crashes heavily on Australia (which it is large enough to cover the whole of) and demands that humanity provide him with food.