Plotlanders

Today I did a series of 4 caches near where I work. I've been itching to do them for ages, but they looked quite tricky as you have to find the first one to get the co-ordinates for the second cache and so on. I did search the other after work, but it was raining and getting dark so I had to give up after half an hour of searching. Today, being much brighter and having more time on my hands I set off in hope of not only finding the first one, but the other three as well.

On the map to the left, I work on the far right in the pink area and the 4 caches are on the top left.



This is a pond at the entrance to the Nature Reserve where the four plotlanders caches are. It seems that a housing estate has been built around it. I noticed one of the neighbours feeding some ducks there. Millie was most interested in the ducks! Fortunately I had put her on her lead at this point.





I walked through the woods and came across an open space and this magnificent view. The sun was shing and I was hopeful of finding of my caches. The cache is hidden half way down this hill, on the left amongst the small trees.









Well the first one I certainly made a meal out of it. I searched for ages in the wrong place. Then stopped to have a little think and looked in the right place and found it within seconds. DOH. The hint had been high and the word associated was high wire! The cache was under a wire fence.
The hint for the next one was Peter. As I walked towards the given co-ordinates I wracked my brains trying to think of a word associated with Peter. My GPS was working well and the co-ordinates were spot on, so thankfully I found this one easily. It also helped having a cache in exactly the same style myself. Peter = rock! Easy when you know how.

The next hint was Job. Now was there going to be a biblical theme running through this. Did the cache owner mean Job as in the man in the Bible or job as in gissa job? Fortunately the co-ords were spot on again and the cache site was pretty obvious. I couldn't work out what the word association was, but the answer was inside the cache. "inside job" I would never have gotten that one. Thankfully it didn't matter in the end. The cache itself was on a hook and I managed to pull it off the hook and drop it. Disaster. I thought I wouldn't be able to retrieve it, but thankfully I was able to reach it. So on to the final one, which was very handily back the way I had just come. This final one was a nice sized pot, but still took me a few minutes to find - searching in the wrong place again! DOH.