Sunday Geocaching - Freshwater Railway

Trip report for Sunday, Feb 1st 2009. Less 'caching, more walking was the order of the day for today - and probably a good thing too! In freezing cold weather, our hands were getting numb whilst opening caches and writing on logs!

We started out at the site of the old Yarmouth railway station looking for cache GC1AWPE. It was COLD and the GPS was being very inaccurate so it took a little bit of scrabbling about to find this one. Even when I did spot it, there were muggles abound so we had to wait around even longer. Signing the log with icy fingers was not too much fun :)

Then the 1.75 mile walk to Freshwater began (briskly!), along the path of the old Yarmouth to Freshwater railway line. It's quite an enjoyable walk, with plenty of scenery along the route.

At the the Freshwater end of the path is the End of the Line cafe and the site of our second of three caches today (GC1AWPC). With plenty of people walking the path today, it took a while before we could dive into the hedge and retrieve the cache and we had to sign and place the cache back pretty quickly to avoid prying eyes.

A short walk down the main road led us to a circular walk around Afton Marsh. The name should have given us some warning, but this cache was muddy! A walk that should have taken ten minutes tops took quite a while longer as we tried to avoid getting stuck ankle-deep in the mud. Eventually we made it to the cache (GC1E049). It was in this really rather scenic place, with the lake and ducks and a wooden bridge that it started to snow. Cold, but very picturesque. We decided it was time to call it a day, and headed back the two miles we had travelled to the warmth of the car.