First went up to Kirkcudbright with a girlfriend with the intention of caching. Warmed up with Auchencairn Amble 4D/3T. The cliff side path freaked her, and she took an inland route. The ultimate gaol of the trip was to get onto Hestan Island 5D/5T, but the tide needed to be out.

We got up early and drove round to the given parking. Walked for nearly two hours to see tide was still covering The Rack causeway, our route on to the Island and the prize. Not a low enough tide. To get to the water's edge we had to scramble down through scrub across rocks on to coastal mud. Not that day.

Returned in June, on my own with a kayak and paddled out from Balcary Bay at high water. Hopefully the currents would be slack and the estimated 40 minute crossing would be unaffected by the tide coming in. Cache found. Log signed. Photos taken for Waymarking and logs.

Now for the return crossing before tide ebbed and sucked me out to Isle of Man. Slight choppy sea decreased as I got nearer launch point and under shelter of the land.

As I loaded kayak back on my car, families were playing at the water's edge. Little did they know where I had just been and done.

Further finders all had an adventure getting on to the island. I returned with itschopper when the tide was out and walked across the Rack causeway, which is a mussel bed.

This is a series of caches along the beautiful Langstrath Valley in Borrowdale. All 20 can be found in one long walk. Or a shorter walk of 1 to 4 and 15 to 20. The shorter loop has trickier hides, whereas the further GCs are more straight forward. The return leg is shared with the long distance path, the Cumbria Way.

Parking is available in Stonethwaite at the red phone kiosk for a few cars. Otherwise use verge side parking on approach road, between road end and hamlet. Might be a cafe or pub open, depends on time of year. Nearby camp sites all in awesome settings.

Excellent walk amongst the Lakeland Fells without climbing high.

The Stones & Stumps series by martlakes are 18 GCs spread out on either of the M6 motorway between Clifton and Hackthorpe. All 18 can be found in one gargantuan walk, but I cut it down to several smaller walks to fit the time available with TIGG. None can be found as cache and dash. All have to be walked to.

We did #4- #10 as one loop. Parking in Hackthorpe. Now there are extra GCs to find in Lowther Park.

Another loop starts at the superb cafe at Melkinthorpe garden centre. This cafe is to die for. Gluten free chocolate cake. Yumm. Not your usual garden centre as it is in several food guides. Visit S&S #14, #13, #12, #11 and We All Scream Tarmac can be avoided by taking muddy paths across fields.

Final loop. Parked in Clifton. found S&S #18, #17, #16, #15 and the Last Battlefield in England. Nearly all on paths.

To complete the series, parked in Clifton and walked there and back past S&S #1, #2, #3 and Castle View GC and Stumped by the River GC.

Make your own route up but above makes the series bite size.

For International Earthcache Day, went over Arnside Knott with fellow cacher TIGG, a low limestone hill overlooking Morecambe Bay. Started by arriving in time to see the tidal bore racing in for Kent Estuary Tidal Bore EC. Parked for free on the promenade, thus guaranteeing no uphill to the finish. With Tigg then walked up past the Beach Walk cafe towards Arnside YHA and on to the tarmac, Red Hills Road. Shortly, turned off that road to ascend Knott Lane in order to get on to the path to the woods covering the Knott. Short road section. Once on summit did the necessary to claim the Arnside Knott EC. We had already found the Arnside Knott GC of same name. Awesome views of Morecambe Bay filled with water. Dropped off the summit to Arnside Tower GC  through woods. Plenty of people out in popular walking area.

From Arnside Tower, a ruined pele tower, headed south west to a caravan park. In the grounds look out for path heading off north west across fields. Easily missed. Stay on well used footpath across fields to an impressive stone wall and tarmac road. Cross the road and walk down to yet another caravan park, Holgates. If tide is not high, you might be able to find ramp down on to the beach and What we did on our holidays GC.
From caravan park, take the path west around edge of the bay through old oak woodland and birch scrub. Eventually finding baywatch GC, after many path choices. All of them okay.
You  could continue round the edge of the bay, but we cut across to New Barns bay, though a third caravan park. At the entrance to this third caravan park is a shop and cafe with outside seating, selling ice creams.

From New Barns bay, headed up New Barns road to rejoin our earlier route at the junction of Red hills Road and Knott Lane. Retraced our steps towards YHA, down narrow path to Beach Walk cafe, mentioned earlier for a cup of tea and cake.
5+ miles in  3-4 hours with awesome views. 6 cache potential