Have you ever heard of Geocaching?? Well today mum and I had our first Geocaching experience with great excitement!!
Mums friend, who's a children's book editor and knows about all sorts of weird and wonderful things, told her about the fun that can be had with Geocaching. For those not in the know, it's a treasure hunt. All over the world there are these little hidden packages called caches, which can be found using GPS and a few clues left by the person who deposited the cache. Items inside the cache can be taken home, as long as you leave something of equil or greater value in its place. The clues and GPS coordinates can both be found on the Geocaching website and you can log when you too have found a cache. Have a look at their website for more info.
http://www.geocaching.com/
Anything that gets people outdoors and exploring their countryside is great in my opinion. And of course us dogs can come too on all the treasure hunts.
Mum and I looked up what caches were in our local area and to our surprise there are LOTS. This means we have lots of new adventures to go on, which is so exciting.
Today we went to one of our regular walking spots down at Porkellis Moor. It's crazy to think I've sniffed all around the moor and explored every nook and cranny, and there hiding amongst the mining remains for the past few years has been a cache with treasure inside. Mum carefully pieced together clues and I helped by rushing around and digging holes in case it was buried. It didn't take long and mum found the cache. I enjoyed opening the cache and sniffing what was inside. There was a comedy sausage toy but I wasn't allowed it. The little log book showed lots of people had also found the cache, the most recent only three days previously.
Mum and I are now Geocaching fans and we shall be going on lots of treasure hunts in the future!! It's a great way to explore our local area and take us to places we may never have gone to before.
We've been out Geocaching again and it's introduced us to a new walk. Located between Laity, Wendron and Hendra, (OS reference SW692309) this walk centres around a monument marked on the Ordnance Survey map as Beacon Hut. This ancient structure is thought to be either a ruined beehive hut or a neolithic chambered cairn.
The walk starts at the mast near beacon hut and takes you on a circular route though a series of fields before returning along a quiet lane to the starting place. If you are geocaching there are lots to be found along the way, however, the views alone are worth the walk here, taking in much of the south coast from Porthleven to Falmouth. 
