Series Info:
This is a series of 9 traditional caches which takes us on a circular walk around the lakes of Standlake in West Oxfordshire. The walk is approximately 4 miles long and, excluding any time for searching, should take about two hours to complete.
Please be careful when caching with children as there are roads and a couple of deep water lakes to negotiate.
This Cache:
This is a round tablet tube covered in black tape for the eight in our series. Also stealth may be required as this is a common doggy walking path.
History:
The ancient people used their imaginations to create patterns and stories of the stars. These patterns become the constellations. Each culture had its own constellations and stories. Before 1930, constellations were regions in the sky with only fuzzy boundaries.
In that year, the International Astronomical Union put the scheme of constellations on a definite system. The sky was officially divided into 88 constellations with sharp boundaries, and each star is in one and only one constellation.
Our walk around West Oxfordshire is best done on a clear skied night where the open sky is full of stars. Each cache is dedicated to one constellation but for no particular reason