The last cache and the Billy Witch

Well, all three logs are now in place, the files are dressed up and in their requisite locations and all that’s needed now is storywalkers!

On Monday I dropped off the last cache box in Culbone woods and found one of these bugs. They are huge, the one in the photo I took the day before as it had been trying to fly through our kitchen window. They are called Cockchafers (I kid you not!! have a look at this Wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchafer ) though I like the name Billy Witch more.


Apparently they were serious pests back in the days before pesticides eating oak leaves mainly, and in ancient Greece children used to tie muslin to the bugs feet and watch them fly in spirals! When this one opened it's wings I was surprised at it's inability to fly up, it just seemed to kamikaze around into the lights (which we then turned off) and he then kamikazed into us!!

 When we dropped the cache and log book off, there were so many people walking the woods it was quite a surprise. One couple suggested it was like Blackpool promenade! Great the woods are walked though and a little shame that the tea making shack of yester year is no longer there at Culbone.

This is round the back of the church, and it's not the best picture but you can see a little chap with pointy ears and a long piggy nose. We wondered if all the residents of Culbone looked like this at one time!

And finally Art on the trail, this walk is so rich in many ways and to find impromptu art just on the path is very refreshing.

The secret journal

Yesterday I ventured into the forest once more to drop the second of the three journals (one for each walk). For those of you unaware, each walk has a journal hidden at the end. Only through traversing the walk through all it's stages would the log location be revealed. The Dunster walk and it's journal has been live for some time, but yesterday was the Last Queens turn.

In simple terms it's just a little book, but it becomes something else when everyone who walks the walk writes their little piece within the leaves. It is such treat when I return to read the log, sometimes very little is said but other times it there is an in depth account of one groups adventure. But what is really lovely is that when you leave a note you can read others experiences' too, with the knowledge that every person has been on this story walk.

Latest visitors to the Winding Charm in Dunster

This has just come through and it makes it all worth while. Many thanks ed2ed (the team who walked it yesterday)

 This was our first Wherigo and what a great introduction to this cache type!  It was also a birthday cache for Mr E AND our 250th milestone cache to boot.  The storytelling in this cache is excellent.  The location is used to very good effect and the story links in with the landscape well.  While we had no children with us we can see how this is a well-crafted family caching experience.  We have been to Dunster half a dozen times before in the past, but this adventure took us to several new places we would never have found but for following the faerie.  The Android player worked very well and did not distract from the gameplay.  All in all a very good cache and worthy of a favourite point.  Well done!  The added bonus was the physical cache at the end, which was quickly retrieved in high muggle territory.  Putting it back took a bit more stealth.  The log book was another treat to find. Very nice and in keeping.