We will congregate at the Farway Countryside Park, near Honiton in East Devon. Meeting up at 10am, to be ready to leave the park by 10:30am, with the final stage being completed in time for lunch at The Harbour Inn in Axmouth, near Seaton (N 50°42.880, W 003°03.283). In between these two places, you will have a cache hunt to complete!
When you meet us at the Countryside park, you will be issued with a map of East Devon with the multi waypoints marked on it. You will also be given a set of instructions for where to go. You will need to collect pieces of a puzzle which will then give you the co-ordinates for the penultimate location when put together.
The Farway Countryside Park owners have kindly agreed to open an hour early so we can get started at 10am. They will also have the cafe open early for tea and coffee for you to refresh yourselves after your journey. There are toilets here and at three of the other places you visit on the route.
As this is a Christmas Event and we have managed to find a very large cache container, we need to fill it with Christmas presents. So..... please make sure you bring a wrapped present marked "Young girl", "Young boy", "Older girl", "Older boy", "Lady" or "Man" for each member of your caching party. A suggested value for each gift is £5/person. These presents will be collected when you arrive, and re-distributed at the penultimate cache location (probably the LARGEST cache container you've ever seen!). It is the intention that you will receive a gift that someone else has brought, so hopefully everyone who brings a present will get a suitable surprise present.
We will all end up at the Harbour Inn, Axmouth in time for lunch. Please post a "Will attend" message on this cache page if you are coming. We have booked the skittle alley to ourselves. Bar food is available, as well as drinks of course. To give you an idea, Sunday roasts are £6.50, and daily specials are a bit more than that. There are also traditional bar snacks from about £3 or £4 upwards.
The summer event cache in Exeter was all about brand new caches, but this event is more biased to the socialising. There will be just the one Event cache this time, with no extra caches created just to coincide with the event.
The route on the day will take you to some interesting places in East Devon. A few local public attractions have given us permission to place temporary cache containers on their property. We have even managed to negotiate exclusive access to a private country estate in the area as well. There will be some guidelines which you will need to follow for this particular one, but these will be included with your instruction sheet.
The pub closes at 3pm, so you will either have a chance to do a few local caches before dusk, or set off for home again if you have a long journey.