A very understated but excellent series and one of my favourites. This series consists of 8 caches of different sizes types and difficulties over a 1.5 hour walk in the area surrounding the village of Haddenham (The local mecca of good series and individual caches for me). It is a GREAT series for the kids mine loved it (although do note that there is a fair bit of walking on or near roads). Plus it has a great duck pond with really obnoxious ducks which is always a bonus (Take bread it will be demanded). Ample parking is available at the church green which is a convenient place to start this series, and later will serve as a nice landmark for navigation there are a huge number of other caches that you can pick up nearby some easy some really difficult. There really is a little something for every cacher in Haddenham!
From the owners description:
Coming from 'The Green' of Haddenham, walk into Flint Street and take the footpath there... continue on...
All caches were completed in the order below on the 30th of May 2011 by myself and my two kids aged 3 and 5.
Without a doubt my favourite series so far. It has a bit of everything, straight from the off a really memorable one. The location was easy enough to find after an amusing dash through a field of cows. Ended up checking the hint after the first 5 minutes which didn't help as it was obvious, after 20 minutes started checking the logs. Found it in the end but was not expecting it to be where I found it. If you check my profile you'll see another hobby that I was hoping to merge with geocaching at some point and this cache ended Up being right Up my street! Great stuff TFTC.
Man that is one stinky hiding place! The kids were a bit vigorous when finding this one and the cache site has a few battle scars, sorry! Had fun with the pigs after finding this cache!
Nice sized container. Thinking of creating a geocachers tool that can bypass nettles, this time next year Rodders! Anyhoo back in reality don't forget your umbrella it's a long run back over the field for it if you do... oops.
I believe it was the seventh one I tried after checking the clue! Not in the obvious places. The field is full of deep cracks which the kids had fun avoiding and a train whizzed passed as we were heading over which they loved.
Simply brilliant, I must have looked at that horseshoe ten times before I figured out it had a secret compartment. I have a great photo of us with the cache but don't want to do a spoiler... oops
EDIT: This is a favourite of cache of mine now mainly due to the good humour of cachers who came after me and carried on my evil in joke.
The boy found this good sized cache, really enjoying the series and the kids are all smiles despite the longish walk and the weather which looks to be turning nasty .
Nice and easy the boy found this one as well. Shame there is a bit of walking on the road coming up.
Knew exactly what we were looking for but still took a good 20 minutes, shame that someone had decided to have a poo very near to the site (Unless dogs are using loo roll these days!) still even that could not ruin this absolutely brilliant series with a cache that was suitably difficult to finish off with. The boy opened it and dropped it with a squeal after finding a family of earwigs in it (I cleaned them out) this will be known as the "Scary cache" in our circles .
Not sure how to get back to St. Mary's from here. In hindsight the road might have been the best choice we opted for a very long walk through fields with long wet grass which effectively ended a very good days caching. It started to rain heavily half way back but for our efforts we were treated with a dear and lots of herons! Still I wouldn't recommend it the footpaths were not very clearly marked and has lots of stinging nettles, thorns and obstacles to avoid.
Best series so far by far.
Not sure how to get back to St. Mary's from here. In hindsight the road might have been the best choice we opted for a very long walk through fields with long wet grass which effectively ended a very good days caching. It started to rain heavily half way back but for our efforts we were treated with a dear and lots of herons! Still I wouldn't recommend it the footpaths were not very clearly marked and has lots of stinging nettles, thorns and obstacles to avoid.
Best series so far by far.
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