Three steps to heaven

Which today - the first of the year - meant being First To Find three caches! Hurrah! Aqueducts One, Two and Three (the most challenging) were just what we needed to start the new year off well. The weather was beautiful - sunny and not too cold - and the marvellous secrecy element of the hobby came into play when we had to pretend we were ordinary walkers with no ulterior motive when all the 'muggles' (non-cachers) strolled by. It can be difficult to look inconspicuous in a ditch with brambles clutching your hair!

Aqueduct 3 was the greatest fun. When we printed off the details it hadn't been approved (but had been mentioned in the details of the other two) but we decided to give it a go anyway. The co-ordinates were literally miles off (the parking co-ordinates were for Althorp when the cache was near Stratford) so we disregarded those and used logic and the clues mentioned in the waypoints (if 'at the church' is mentioned, you probably need to be near a church and not on a towpath ;)), which was enough to get us there. The satisfaction of finding the eventual cache was immeasurable! And we logged the find a minute before the cache was finally approved!!!