{"id":19677,"date":"2015-07-15T06:26:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T05:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19677"},"modified":"2017-09-22T06:44:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T05:44:16","slug":"geocaching-in-llanafan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/geocaching-in-llanafan\/","title":{"rendered":"Geocaching in Llanafan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday dawned wet and miserable and didn’t look good for our apiary safari\u00a0in Llanafan<\/a>. I was going to go for a ride but decided against it when I saw the weather.\u00a0Instead, I got up and did lots of household chores and then baked a Greek Honey Cake ready for the afternoons beekeeping meeting. It turned out to be a very nice cake too, made with lots of our home produced honey which turns it into a sticky, moist cake that tastes a little like baklava.<\/p>\n

I also managed to convince Anna and Morgan that we should head out along the Ystwyth Valley towards Llanafan\u00a0earlier than we needed so that we could attempt a few geocaches before the beekeeping meeting. We got our beekeeping kit together, made a quick picnic and then stopped off at the shops for some more picnic fare before driving\u00a0out to Trawscoed where we stopped at Black\u00a0Covert woods for lunch. We then did a quick geocache near to the woods, overlooking the River Ystwyth, which thanks the overnight rain, was in full flow.<\/p>\n

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River Ystwyth<\/p><\/div>\n

Next stop was supposed to be another cache a little way along the valley but we\u00a0couldn’t find a suitable parking spot so instead drove the back way in Llanafan where we parked up and then went off wandering around the lanes looking for a couple of other caches. We\u00a0found the location of the first one but there was no sign of the cache. It was in a nice little woodland though and we did come across a little community nature area complete with a man-made pond and a little observatory hide. The pond wasn’t looking great. There were plenty of butterflies and other bugs about, but nothing in the pond itself.<\/p>\n\n\t\t