A funny day geocaching!

It's been a funny day geocaching today. The weather forecast was awful, with heavy rain and thunderstorms predicted, so we abandoned our plans to walk in Colan Woods near Newquay. Instead we went to Trago Mills to shop for wool and stationery. While there we found the geocache in the woods by the store. Who would think there were some quite pleasant walks near such a big store!

In the afternoon we went to nearby Lanivet where there are two multipart geocaches requiring you to go to a number of locations to find numerical clues around the village to give the co-ordinates of the final caches.

Celtic cross in the graveyard

Some of the clues were at the local church, where we met a delightful lady who was about to do the church flowers. She let us look around the church and told us about the beautiful stained glass windows. She also told us that there had been a church on the site for over a thousand years, and they have a list of rectors on the wall going back to the 1200's. It was also probably a pagan scared site before that. Lanivet is actually the geographical centre of Cornwall and is halfway along the Saints Way which goes from Padstow to Fowey and was the route Irish pilgrims took towards France, hence it's importance.

Celtic cross near the bell
tower and war memorial

Lanivet Church 

We collected all the numerical clues, did the maths and went looking for the first cache. We got close, but the GPS pointed to the middle of the main road, so we used common sense and the cache name Road to Nowhere to guide us.... it wasn't enough today...


By then it was getting overcast, and we really didn't feel like getting wet through as we had both gone out without coats, so we called it a day... 


We will have to go back and try again another time.


Until next time
Gillian