As a couple of new geocaches have recently been hidden near Eyeworth Pond we chose to have a three mile circular walk from there. Along the small lane that leads through Fritham there is a disused telephone box which has recently had a facelift and it is now an information point for walkers and cyclists as well as a mini library (like the one we saw a few weeks ago in Houghton on 23rd June).
There was a geocache hidden in the box in a very ingenious container. Have a look inside ....
....... how posh is that? In it there are all sorts of leaflets and folders containing local information, a visitors book to sign and it's got it's own facebook page! (fritham phone box)
Then it was on to Eyeworth Pond where the ducks seemed to be keeping a low profile for once, maybe they were trying to keep cool in the shade (it was yet another scorcher again today and it's getting boring!).
Eyeworth Pond, with large swathes of lillies.
I especially liked the pink ones.
This dead tree looked dead! (I don't know what else to say about it really, except that someone has very neatly chopped the branches off!!)
This is the view from one of the caches, very welcome shade but still too hot though.
We walked just over three sweaty miles, found three geocaches, explored a phone box, saw a nuthatch, a couple of baby thrushes and not a lot of water in the streams again.
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