Log entries Lansallos Cliff
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2010-10-02 00:00
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- Found it
We had to curtail our plans for this weekend due to the weather so decided on a coastal walk with the bonus of an Opencache thrown in.
We parked in Lansallos and revisited the Church before heading down the path to the coast. In the Church we had a chat to the cleaner who gave us a history lesson on the Church/yard and village. It was very interesting especially the tombestone he took us to which belonged to a young chap who was killed after being hit by a cannonball. The story is that he was one of a band of smugglers who was on a small rowing boat fully laden with goodies when they were spotted by the customs men. They had a faster boat and gave chase and fired their cannon at the smugglers and this chap got hit. The grave is on the left hand side of the path from the gate and is about the 5th one in.
Another piece of information we learnt was that the cutting in the rock at the beach was done so that sand and gravel could be carted up for building works in the local area. There are wheel marks in the rock so it must have going on for some time.
Onto the cache and after a pleasant walk along the path I made an error in where I thought the cache was hidden. For some reason I thought it was on top of the cliff and not seeing an obvious path up I climbed up hoping to find a path back down. The GPSr said I was still 50ft away and it was not possible to get that last 50ft from where I was so I had to climb back down and try a different approach. Anyone who has done this cache will know there is a sensible approach and I did find it at this attempt. Even Mrs S was able to come along on this final climb which was handy because we were able to sit and enjoy the views along the coast as we signed the log.
We took a very nice celtic design pin badge and dropped in an Opencaching patch and a screwdriver bit set.
Thanks for another brilliant cache, our only one of the day but what an only cache to do.
