Out for a walk with the team and what a great day for it, bright and crisp, a little icy underfoot but not bad if your careful. Passed a couple of hikers who had decided to stop at one of the gun butts for a brew, not too bad, thought I, just far enough away not to rouse too much suspicion.
How wrong could I be😟! We got to the correct butt to find we had a fair distance to go through the tussocks, not too bad going at all next to the wall, I think sheep may have been following the wall and creating a path as they have a tendency to do. We got to around about GZ and looked back only to see that the aforementioned hikers had not only finished their brew break and followed up the behind us but had also decided to stop at the self same gun butt that the cache was near😟! They had cameras and binoculars out and looked like they were going to have a party at this and every butt in sight! Right well, carry on then, they'll get bored and move on shortly, yeah right! Only when we were about 200 feet past the cache site😟!
Returning back to GZ and low and behold three more walkers hove into view, I slowed down, pretended to pick up dog poo, finally decided to stop and have a little drink just past GZ to let them move past far enough. No such luck! A shout of hiya Andy and a wave! Only then I realised it was the family who lived across the road from us before we moved! I thought they were going to stop for me to join them but a few shouted pleasantries and a little play acting of difficulty walking through the tussocks paid off. They bid their farewells and I was again able to backtrack (just 50 feet this time) to GZ, if anyone else came I was going to dive into the tussocks and hide!
Back at GZ the GPSr was pointing me almost directly at the thing which I now know the clue states it's not in! I realised that the hide would not be there😎 so started the search at the wrong side of it to begin with. As the GPSr started to tell me I was probably in error I returned back to the non hide and almost immediately thought aye aye, that looks promising, and so it was! I do so like to be clueless😁! A quick signing before anyone else turned up and the cache was replaced exactly as found.
Still no room for this TB
Cheers
Schnuz.