New Year trip to Hadrian's Wall

By Lily and Toby on Jan 28, 09 12:59 PM

The New Year began with a geocaching trip to Hadrian's Wall.

There are over 30 caches to found along the wall for walkers and the scenery is fantastic.

We went to Windshields Crags which is the highest point of the wall at 345 metres high.

It took us an hour to get there in the car and we were pretty hungry upon arrival so Daddy let us eat our sandwiches before we set off.

The walk up to the top took about half and hour and when we reached the summit we sat upon the triangulation post.

Next we had to find the geocache without any muggles spotting us (this is very important).

A short walk back down the hill and a right turn took us to the location of the geocache, which we found situated in a pile of Sheep's poo.

Despite no extra clues being given by the hider and only co-ordinates available, this was quite an easy cache to find, which isn't always the case.

To ward off muggles (non-geocaching folk) we wore pink flashy light bobbles on a headband, which we'd been given the night before at the New Year's Eve Glow Festival in Newcastle city centre. We pretended to be aliens which we thought was better than muggles realising what we were actually up to.

The only negative to the trip was Toby slipping down the hill three times in sheep's poo on the way back to the car.

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