🍦 The third Sunday in July is International Ice Cream Day. 🍦
I couldn't resist experiencing a 5 scoop icecream!!
Never again.
Ice Cream Day dates back to the USA presidency of Ronald Reagan and is always the third Sunday in July. Reagan purportedly wanted to dedicate a day to one of America’s favourite desserts – and so Ice Cream Day was born in 1984.
And it is now celebrated in many other countries.
So what has GZ got to do with ice cream?
On some weekends way back in 1977 a friend and I would each buy a box of Black Knight liquorice and a double scoop of hokey pokey ice cream in a cone.
With me holding the ice creams she would drive her mini to this end of the airport, drive up the slope (you can't do that now), line the mini up with the centre line of the runway (you can't do that either) and put the handbrake on.
Here we would sit, eating the ice cream and liquorice watching the planes land or take off.
The best days were when there was a northerly as the planes would take off from the southern end.
The mini would shake, rattle but (somehow) not roll when the engines were given full power.
Were we mad? Most probably! But it was fun.
While you are allowed to walk to GZ from the eastern side of the airport, the access to the seawall south of the runway is prohibited due to the danger from jet blast.
Do not approach the cache from the western side of runway.
HINTS:
See the waypoints for parking and where walk up the slope to GZ. You can also walk along the tracks from the parking lay-bys to get to GZ.
You don't need to fossick in the gorse or where there are dead branches of another bush.
Look for a pile of rocks.
Please return it in the same way -I don't want it disappearing in a southerly. Many thanks.