Briton Ferry Woods (Traditional cache)
KickerKid World Championship 2006 geocoinBriton Ferry is a small town nestled in a very busy part of south Wales. It is wedged in between Neath, Swansea and Port Talbot and the surrounding industrial sprawl. It is guarded to the east by some steep hillsides and trees, and this is where I headed late on Saturday afternoon.
The views around the area are dominated by electricity pylons. This a theme which I would like to develop for a moment, as they have been in the news recently in Scotland. Politically, I am neutral about pylons.Indeed, I do recognise that pylons have some engineering merit. I remember being fascinated with this when I watched a children's documentary on TV a a small boy. A few years ago, I was amused to find a site called 'pylon of the month', which seems to have been discontinued since 2001. Nevertheless, I hereby submit my entry for March 2007.
I parked my car and started my ascent up into Briton Ferry Woods, a Forestry Commission site. After a momentary unwelcome encounter with a kid who was wondering what I was doing with my yellow GPS, I headed to the cache site. For a moment, it looked as though it was goiung to be a tough hike over felled trees and heathland, similar to Cannock Chase. However I found an easy path around to the cache site.
I have had the cache on my watch list since December, so I was delighted to see that the "World Championships geocoin"(with soccer icon) was still there, despite someone having visited the cache in February.The ammo box is pictured here with the geocoin. It was nice to move on from the 50 mark and start the long haul to that 100 finds geocoin...
