Having logged this as a TerraCache, I've returned to day to log again as an OpenCache. This is a lovely walk up and over the downs to a top cache, it seem such a shame that no-one else at all has been here between my two visits, even though they are separated by over a year.

The cache hasn't moved during the last year. I know this because the co-ordinates were 63 feet out a year ago, and they were still 63 feet out today . Despite this, the cache is not difficult to find - it's a large ammo box, and it's in a pretty obvious place. And it remains in perfect contition.

The cache page explains that the cache was set during the filming of a CountryFile episode, fronted by Michaela Strachan. Other caches were visited during that program, in one of which Michaela Strachan placed a plastic snake as a trade item. I collected that snake and released it as a travel bug. It started its journey in my "Brobdingnagian Micro" cache, but unfortunately the person who took it from that cache still has it - they appear to have stopped caching and have not answered my emails.

I was pleased to find another snake in this cache. I feel it has a sufficiently close link with the original to make it worth releasing on the travel bug copy tag, so I swapped it for some tee-shirt post-it notes.

This is a truly splendid cache. The only thing I really don't like about it is the additional logging requirement of a Red Kite photo. The cache page exhorts me to bring my telephoto lens. I don't have one. I don't have a camera that would take one. And even if I did, I don't have the skills to use it well. No photo that I take will even begin to approach the quality of the photographs on the cache page. At the very best all I can do is show a few fuzzy, featureless, unidentifiable darkish pixels against a blue sky. It doesn't prove I've been to the cache (the cache password does that), and adds nothing at all to the experience of reading the cache page. All it does is detract from my own experience on the walk by requiring that I fiddle around with a camera when I could be watching the Red Kites instead, and then demonstrate to all and sundry that I'm a rubbish photographer, with rubbish equipment. But to fulfil my obligations, here it is .

Here's hoping that a few more people will make the journey here during the next year,

Rgds, Andy