GC1JN66 - Old Town Open

I wanted to go off and try to find a significantly-sized cache in Eastbourne somewhere, and see if I could persuade Captain to get into this Geocaching lark. He wasn't convinced when I described it to him, but he dusted off his classic-style GPS (I use the ones on my phone and laptop) and agreed to join me for a hunt as long as it was a good walk about and out of town.

After a bit of a browse, I picked GC1JN66, "Old Town Open" layed by "The Long Man Trackers". It looked like it filled all of our size and location requirements (up towards the Downs) - so off we went. The clues were all accessable by road, and were ingeniously designed! The tags (as shown below but with the answer numbers scrubbed out to avoid spoiling!) were stamped metal plates which looked like they might have been markers left by fence installation people or the council, so they wouldn't be nicked/removed by local scallies and the like.






Having gathered up the clues and worked out the co-ordinates of the actual cache - we set off up the hill on to the Downs. I'm not the best at hills, so Captain went on a little way ahead to narrow down the location. He worked out where it was, in a little slightly clearer area off the main path. We clambered up into the area, which was quite steep and very soggy underfoot, and used the trees to move around to find the cache. It took some looking for, as the trees widened the area of discrepancy on the GPS to around 25 feet.

Then... we found it!!!

It's a smashing cache. :-) Very waterproof it seems, as it had rained the previous day and the inside was spotlessly dry. There were lots of items in there (including a travel bug! I want to get one of those!), but I decided not to take anything, as a) I had nothing to leave, and b) I'm going to leave it until I've found a few more before I start trading stuff around. I signed and dated the log from the two of us on behalf of Team Fruity, and hid it all back where we found it.

Thanks to "The Long Man Trackers" for such a great hide :-)