It's great to be able to get away at weekends again in our campervan, we've really missed it.
The forecast wasn't good for this weekend, with rain showers all weekend but we decided to go for it anyway, we've been cooped up long enough.
I wanted to pop into one of the shops at Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet first thing before they got too busy so we had an early start to get there for 9am.
While we were there we did the multi from 2008. Not sure why we didn't notice it on our last visit a few years ago.
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| Charlie keeping watch while I looked for the cache. |
Next stop was Port Sunlight.
Isn't it strange how fast the time goes, I know they say that as you get older the time goes faster but this is just getting ridiculous - If you'd asked me what year we last visited Port Sunlight I'd have said no earlier than 2017 but no it was way back in 2014!! Strange to think that back then we had no intention of moving anywhere let alone relocating to the North West! We visited to do the Port Sunlight Wherignome so we were really looking forward to coming back again and doing the Adventure Labs.
Port Sunlight is a village on the Wirral Peninsula built by Lever Brothers to accommodate its workers in its soap factory (now part of Unilever).
Port Sunlight was declared a conservation area in 1978 and contains more than 900 Grade II listed buildings in 130 acres of parkland and gardens. Today it is home to a museum, art gallery, parkland and a thriving community. In normal times it receives more than 300,000 visitors a year.
Next stop: New Brighton.
An enjoyable stroll around this seaside resort for a set of Adventure lab caches and a few other caches and by coincidence we met the Adventure Lab CO, SirPhilPamandRob in a supermarket car park later in the day. Seemed strange talking to another cacher about caching after this long period of time without meeting other cachers at events. Really looking forward to being able to attend some mega events again this year.
Interestingly Wallasey was where the first British guide dogs were trained in 1931 and there's a statue in New Brighton to commemorate this.
Torrential rain set in for the rest of the evening so we headed back to the van.
Up early the following morning to continue our walk around New Brighton to do a couple of Earthcaches and a multi.
Fort Perch Rock is a coastal defence battery built between 1825 and 1829. It was built to protect the Port of Liverpool and proposed as a fortified lighthouse to replace the old Perch Rock Light, however a separate lighthouse was built.
After the heavy rain yesterday the skies had cleared and it was a beautiful sunny morning. Perfect for our next stop to another seaside resort, this time Hoylake.
There is currently a local campaign to rake the beach at Hoylake - it would seem that since 2019 the beach hasn't been managed and is awaiting public consultation and a final plan which will decide whether or not the beach will be raked to remove vegetation.
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| Watching the world go by |
A few notable people with connections to Hoylake:
The actor Daniel Craig grew up in Hoylake as did AC/DC bassist Cliff Williams. Former Olympic cyclist Chris Boardman was born in Hoylake.
Back in the van and onward to Ashton Park in West Kirby for a set of Adventure labs.
On the way home we stopped off in Parkgate by which time it was pouring with rain.
Parkgate is famous for its ice cream but it was far too wet to queue outside the ice cream shops so we just did the Adventure Labs and continued home.
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