Flat Holm Island (Traditional Cache)The sunniest day of last week happily coincided with a trip to Flat Holm Island. This is a brief picture blog with some of the highlights of the day.
Pic.1: Leaving Cardiff Bay - the "armadillo" shape of the Wales Milennium Centre can be clearly seen.
Pic.2: The visitor centre, where we were mustered into groups for the tour guides. The Flat Holm Island cache, by the prolific German geocacher Steinmann, was supposedly hidden in this building. Unfortunately I couldn't find the actual cache.
However, Steinmann's cache listing stipulated that a photograph of the general vicinity would count as a "find". This was my 99th cache! This is a collection of plastic flotsam gathered in the visitor centre which I used as evidence that I had visited the vicinity of the cache.
Pic.3: Wild leek, a rare plant found on Flat Holm. Somerset can be seen in the background.
Pic 4: The Guglielmo Marconi memorial in the garden on Flat Holm.Marconi sent the first radio signals across water from Lavernock Point (near Penarth) to the island. A potted history is found here.
Pic.5: The garden, a small but beautiful area of plants and flowers. A tortoiseshell butterfly is shown here.
Pic.6: The lighthouse, just before our group entered the gull colony.
Pic.7: The boat back to Cardiff
