Living the dream...

A few days away, that was what we decided.  Some time away from all the goings on and some fresh air and a little caching too.  Dorset will do just fine, just a few hours away and we love the seaside.

We packed up the car with roof box and doggies and we were away....  Portland on a late booking of a little house will do us just lovely, dogs excited and humans too.  A few stops on the way for doggie relief and a snack for us, arriving in good time for sunset.  Luckily we brought the weather with us from Kent, wet gear on we set off on a quick scan of the beach and Chesil beach is just amazing even through the rain drops.

On the first full day, rain again, wet gear on and around the little island we tootle to get our bearings.  Now the thing is we rely heavily on mobile apps for caching in Kent where our signal is good all around, Dorset was going to be a little more challenging and back to basics.  Some days the best we could do was paper and pen coordinates and the good old GPS.  We did the rounds of various pretty sights and made the most of it when the signals were almost non-existent.

A Portland Bill find

Portland Bill 

The moral for this trip was plan better for better caching, even though the weather was against us most of the time we racked up about 40 caching miles for a 10 days and loved all of it.  We have the wet gear and the right shoes now we need to up grade the tech to make the most of a trip like this.