More Saints caches - Rutland

Saturday 13th February
We hadn’t planned a walk today but decided at the last minute to go to Rutland to finish off last weeks caches. We drove to Preston and walked up to the co-ordinates we had solved last week after finding "Neat Stripe" cache. The co-ordinates were actually on a bit of private land that the farmer had put up a notice saying keep out. We will inform the cache owner when we get home. We were a bit worried but we hunted around and John spotted the cache. We thought we would just find the coin needed for the puzzle but it turned out to be a bracelet of buttons with more co-ordinates on. We had trouble reading one of the numbers but followed the direction and eventually found a footpath where we found the coin stuck to a tree. After getting back to the car we drove to Morcott and parked. This was to find "Ninja Host" - the next Saints cache. We crossed the road and walked down beside a wood along a wide footpath. We were near the cache but were on the wrong side of the stream, but we eventually found a bridge. The cache was near a disused railway. We hunted for a while and found a couple of red herrings, one saying "nope" and the other "a helping hand". We eventually found the cache in one of the first places I had looked! We took the blessing and walked to find the coin. We got to a bridge and hunted around and I got down and looked under, after several looks I suddenly saw the coin hanging in front of my face. That's 5 Saints caches found now. A few more trips to Rutland will be needed to finish this off. We returned to the car and drove to Braunston in Rutland to complete a puzzle that is part of another series of puzzle caches called Curse of the Black Cat. we had walked about 12km on our hunts today.