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Altitude: 28 m. ASL.
Region:
United Kingdom (UK) > Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Cache type: Traditional
Size: Small
Status:
Ready for Search
Date hidden: 07-04-2016
Date created: 14-04-2016
Date published: 14-04-2016
Last modification: 04-09-2020 
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Rated as: Excellent
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Description
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This is the location of one of the oldest, but now archived, caches in the U.K. and we thought that such a great cache location deserved to be preserved. We now have a series of revived, suspectly archived old Scillonian caches.
Originally hidden by Street Pilot on 24th August 2001.
Hell Bay: GC1B1D
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC1B1D_hell-bay?guid=9e7fc623-c0e5-4912-8e26-b7cb43341c70
This is one of the most spectacular locations in the Isles of Scilly. Try to come on a sunny, windy day at high tide and you can watch the sea breaking over Shipman Head.
Over the centuries many ships have been wrecked below you.
http://cornishmemory.com/item/WAT_16_018
Large areas of the Isles of Scilly are SSSIs, including Shipman Down. Finding the cache will not require you to disturb any vegetation or rocks and it is a few metres from the coast path. Please litter pick if you find any rare detritus (actually, quite common on the shore after a storm).
Other new ancient ones:
- Hell Bay, originally hidden by Street Pilot on 24th August 2001: https://opencache.uk/viewcache.php?cacheid=905 https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC1B1D_hell-bay
- Harry's Cache, originally hidden by by Allan & Susan (Stonehunters) in memory of Susan's late father, "who loved the islands" on Friday 6th September 2002: https://opencache.uk/viewcache.php?cacheid=1223 https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC8B81_harrys-cache-st-marys-isles-of-scilly (Sadly, now locked as well as archived)
- Birdman's Cottage on Bryher: hidden by NoPuffin on 5th April 2005 https://opencache.uk/viewcache.php?cacheid=1256 https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCNC24_birdmans-cottage
- Harry's Wall: hidden by Street Pilot on 29th August 2001. https://opencache.uk/editdesc.php?descid=1264 https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC1B27_harrys-wall
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