fraggle69 Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 (edited) Just thought I'd let you all know that the Thames Path is flooded upriver from Marlow, I don't know how far up. This photo was taken on the edge of Higginson Park in Marlow with Bisham Abbey somewhere in the distance. I too have a cache near a river so I'll be checking on that as it seems we're to get another wet and windy hammering this week. Edited January 16, 2007 by fraggle69 Quote Link to comment
+milvus-milvus Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 I've just re-enabled one of mine (in Newport Pagnell), after it was drowned for the second time! The Ouse has subsided, but the cache page now carries a flood warning... Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Is this another thread about "CACHE SATURATION"? MrsB Quote Link to comment
fraggle69 Posted January 16, 2007 Author Share Posted January 16, 2007 I was thinking more Thames Path Cache search and rescue Quote Link to comment
+currykev Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 (edited) But fear not ye all!,as the much maligned hosepipe ban shall remain in place... I'm sure! PS..I don't have a garden! Edited January 16, 2007 by currykev Quote Link to comment
nobby.nobbs Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 used to love running down that path but unfortunately long time before caching! make sure the caches are weighed down otherwise you'll see them floating past slowly Quote Link to comment
+jelly, custard and sprinkles Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Cant get to one of my caches due to water levels rising... need to go and check it today as it has a coin in it that really needs moving on... Gill Quote Link to comment
SNAKEBITER Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Just before Xmas I did a puzzle cache that was near a river. The field was shin high with muddy water but I had spent the previous 2 weeks trying to solve the puzzle and was not going to give it up for anything. I think it adds a seasonal element to the hunt. Quote Link to comment
+Munkeh Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Cant get to one of my caches due to water levels rising... need to go and check it today as it has a coin in it that really needs moving on... Gill can you not swim? Quote Link to comment
fraggle69 Posted January 17, 2007 Author Share Posted January 17, 2007 Cant get to one of my caches due to water levels rising... need to go and check it today as it has a coin in it that really needs moving on... Gill can you not swim? I don't mind doing some wading, if it means rescuing a coing I may be tempted to swim for it. Is there any ale involved? Quote Link to comment
+Gralorn Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Does this mean that there may well be water at the source of the Thames! Some of those Thames Path caches I feel will really have suffered with the floods that have occurred lately in Gloucestershire. Glad that we did them before the floods. Hope that they have survived Lydford Locators. Quote Link to comment
+The Forester Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 A couple of days ago I carefully inspected the riverside path along Scotland River Avon trail to see if it was safe for use after the weekend's extreme flood event so that I could allow the resumption of a temporarily disabled cache. I saw something which I've never seen before: a sheep four or five feet up a tree! Goats climb trees, but sheep don't. The only possible explanation for the sheep being there is that the puir beast had fallen into the river upstream and been swept into the tree when the river was in full spate at an exceptionally high level. A very strange sight! Quote Link to comment
fraggle69 Posted January 17, 2007 Author Share Posted January 17, 2007 A couple of days ago I carefully inspected the riverside path along Scotland River Avon trail to see if it was safe for use after the weekend's extreme flood event so that I could allow the resumption of a temporarily disabled cache. I saw something which I've never seen before: a sheep four or five feet up a tree! Goats climb trees, but sheep don't. The only possible explanation for the sheep being there is that the puir beast had fallen into the river upstream and been swept into the tree when the river was in full spate at an exceptionally high level. A very strange sight! Was it DEAD? Quote Link to comment
+fat boy slow Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 I took this in the recent floods, Via Ducks is in the middle of that .... somewhere Quote Link to comment
+chizu Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 A couple of days ago I carefully inspected the riverside path along Scotland River Avon trail to see if it was safe for use after the weekend's extreme flood event so that I could allow the resumption of a temporarily disabled cache. I saw something which I've never seen before: a sheep four or five feet up a tree! Goats climb trees, but sheep don't. The only possible explanation for the sheep being there is that the puir beast had fallen into the river upstream and been swept into the tree when the river was in full spate at an exceptionally high level. A very strange sight! Was it DEAD? More importantly, do you have a picture?? Quote Link to comment
+forcesofnature Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 (edited) Here's a picture someone posted to my website earlier this week from the floods in the Midlands.. Not sure if there are any caches nearby, but if so, I could attempt my first ever windsurfing cache! Al. Edited January 17, 2007 by forcesofnature Quote Link to comment
+jelly, custard and sprinkles Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Cant get to one of my caches due to water levels rising... need to go and check it today as it has a coin in it that really needs moving on... Gill can you not swim? I can swim :-P the cache is actually out of the water.. and wont get wet at all, its just getting to the cache site means a little wading... i dont have wellies.. Gill Quote Link to comment
+jelly, custard and sprinkles Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Cant get to one of my caches due to water levels rising... need to go and check it today as it has a coin in it that really needs moving on... Gill can you not swim? I don't mind doing some wading, if it means rescuing a coing I may be tempted to swim for it. Is there any ale involved? Are you buying Gill Quote Link to comment
fraggle69 Posted January 17, 2007 Author Share Posted January 17, 2007 (edited) Cant get to one of my caches due to water levels rising... need to go and check it today as it has a coin in it that really needs moving on... Gill can you not swim? I don't mind doing some wading, if it means rescuing a coing I may be tempted to swim for it. Is there any ale involved? Are you buying Gill LOL Edited January 17, 2007 by fraggle69 Quote Link to comment
+The Forester Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Was it DEAD? Oh yes. Otherwise I'd have taken her home. Long cold dark nights hereabouts, dontchaknow! Quote Link to comment
+The Forester Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 More importantly, do you have a picture?? Hanging vertically by the neck, with head tilted sharply to one side. Hairy face, long woollen overcoat. I expect YouTube has already got a video of the scene, complete with soundtrack of onlookers chanting "Mokhtadr Mokhtadr Mokhtadr"! Quote Link to comment
+Haggis Hunter Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 A couple of days ago I carefully inspected the riverside path along Scotland River Avon trail to see if it was safe for use after the weekend's extreme flood event so that I could allow the resumption of a temporarily disabled cache. ODD!! The river state wasn't why you disabled the cache back in October?? Is this a slight white lie? Because I asked for it to be archived a few days ago, and you are now saying that as an excuse for it not being archived??? Considering you have visited the site each day since I posted the SBA log and done nothing about it, your timing with this excuse is impeccable?? My apologies for the thread drift. Quote Link to comment
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