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.
The Earth is the only planet that has life on it, as far as we know. It spins on its axis once every 24 hours (that’s a day) and takes 365 days to go round the Sun (that’s a year). Its diameter – the distance between the north and south poles, through the middle – is a bit more than 12 700 km. It is about 150 million km from the Sun. The word ‘Earth’ comes from the Anglo-Saxon word ‘Ertha’, which means ‘ground’.