Geocaching in Wadebridge

Todays Royal Wedding Bank Holiday has given us the chance to take another day out geocaching. We went to Wadebridge with a list of 15 nearby caches and the thought that we would do a few and see where it took us.

The Old Bridge at Wadebridge

We first looked on two bridges, one a road bridge, one a very bouncy footbridge. Both were pretty busy so we weren't able to do a proper search so we decided to move on to quieter locations and come back to these two when it is quieter, perhaps earlier in the day.




The Old Bridge is stunning. It was built in the 1460's by a local and is said to be built on wool. This supposedly actually means built on the profits on wool, but it is a nice story.  I read that Wadebridge was called Wade before the bridge was built because prior to the building of the bridge people had to wade across the river.

View down river from the bridge

View upriver from the bridge

The day was mostly overcast so the photos don't have the brightness I like, but they are very atmospheric.

Challenge Bridge- built by the TV program Challenge Anneka

Further along the Camel Trail, as we walked upriver east towards Bodmin, we had some beautiful views of Egloshayle (which means church by the  estuary in Cornish) and the church in the village which was built in around 1490 (though there were previous churches on the site dating back to the Norman Conquest in 1066, parts of which can still be found in the church today).

Along the Camel Trail we had to stop by this amazing tree...

Our own little wood sprites hiding against a tree!

                                     and spotted this huge fungi...

 ...and saw several beautifully elegant swans.

We found six geocaches today, including one called Box, where we got to the geocache easily enough, but had to solve a particularly challenging puzzle in order to access the logbook (http://coord.info/GC2AMEY) - it is definitely the most interesting one to date...


The beauty of the Camel Trail is that the scenery changes all along its length. Walking along the part that moves into the Camel Estuary has a completely different feel to it than walking along by Poley's Bridge where the river was still very much a large stream. It also changes with the seasons so will walk it again later in the year...


Until next time
Gillian