This is one of a series of caches placed along the footpath from the Round House to Earnse Bay, representing the planets of the solar system. You will need to bring a pen or pencil to sign the logs and you may need tweezers to get the log out of some of them. Please just write your initials on very small logs and replace the cache very carefully in its hiding place.
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, although it is still nearly 60 million km away. Its year, the time it takes for one orbit the Sun, is only 88 Earth days long but its day, the time it takes to spin once on its axis, is nearly 6 Earth months long. It is named after the Roman god, Mercury, who was the messenger of the gods.