Eloise (& Brad) online

Today we tried geocaching.  Brad had received a GPS unit as a birthday present, so we thought we would give it a go.

We started with one along the Frome Valley Walkway as we know the area.  We did make it a little harder as we left from home and not Winterbourne as suggested.

We found the general area of the first clue easily, but had a bit of trouble actually finding it.  It wasn’t helped by the tree cover and that we didn’t know what we were looking for.  20 minutes later and I spotted the clue. It took us another 20 minutes to figure out how to put a new Waypoint into the GPS.  After that we were on our way, and it probably only took us another 10 minutes to find the cache.

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This weekend we partipated in a Cole family tradition - Christmas Tree Hunting.  This does not involve a trip down B&Q.  We all (this year 17 of us and 2 dogs) met early on Sunday morning at Fountain Forestry in Brockley Coombe, to track down the perfect Christmas tree and chop it down.  The weather was clear, but a little cold out of the sun.

Trudi bagged the first tree of the day and Kia cut it down (with a little help).

We were next, but ours was already dead and only needed a little prunning.

Jay and Alan were after the rarer tree - the needlefast varity.  There were only available pre-cut.

Alan, Anna & Morgan chose a good specimen but Jay didn’t find one that suited.

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