On A Mission

Today we're up bright and early to meet some of Phils MR2 Club Friends local to this area so that we can travel in convoy to a meeting in Essex. Well, it's not so much of a meeting, much rather a treasure hunt! We get at the rendez-vous at about 11 am, and after stocking up on nibbles and the like it's not long until we're given a clue sheet and we're off on the road.

Considering I've quite familiar with the area, after about 15 minutes of following clues (which were also the directions) I'm totally disorientated and it seems we are in the middle of nowhere! But we carry on and manage to get a fair few clues collected - even though we did get accosted by some yokels in the middle of a cricket pitch who whilst very pleasant were not particularly helpful at answering the questions we needed to find the answers for!

The hunt is made even more fun by the addition of bonus photo clues of things that appeared around the course. It has to be said though that since we were traveling quite quick, we only got a few of these clues, we missed the rest in the blurred frenzy of hurrying from one ordinary clue to the next.

It also has to be said the anyone with neck problems should probably avoid this sort of activity. The amount of speeding up then slamming on the anchors as you fly by something which could or could not be a clue is quite astonishing :) It's also helpful to have a car that easily reverses - and to have the eyesight of a hawk so you can read things on signs and posters as you blat past, exhaust screaming.

I guess it is a bit like Challenge Anika, except we aint got a helicopter, and by the end of it Phil and I are quite hyped up on adrenalin and have had a really good time. We don't win of course, we went around the course too quickly and made a few mistakes on the clues, but we did hand our clue sheet in first, which got us a few extra bonus points.

So after a little lunch we then head off home - get some fish and chips for tea and generally mill around until bed time.

In summary then, judging on our abilities to follow clues accurately (ie we didn't) I don't think that Phil and I will be the next Black Beard and Anne Bonny any time soon :)

Posted by Abi on the August 6, 2005 9:27 PM