Email
from Colin F ..... Never give up!
Sorry to hear your
autopsy brought bad news Roy . . I guess that's a lesson for
us all, and
it has been noted to make a sealed set, when I eventually stop changing
the
plans. However, on a better note my set failing actually did me some
good, it
prevented me from even going for 'J' when the water was high as I was
the first
one over trying to find 'I' but my set gave up before entering
wet
country, then Gary appeared. Unfortunately I then left to find help and
missed
the whole drama of sinking bodies, as i was now out of the race I wish
I'd had
a camera handy.
Anyway after about half an hour of wandering around the
woods
to no avail, I eventually had the bright idea of going back over the
railway,
and soon found both Rosie and Phil trying to ressusitate Rosies already
drowned
receiver. Phil had one of your sets spare, and gave this to Rosie, when
I
realised she was then going for 'I' I left my dead set with Phil and
chased
after her, by this time the water had dropped enough to find a way over
without
wet feet.
Rosie didn't understand frame sets very well, so I took over
and
found 'I' (my joker), but when I was crawling out from the undergrowth
I
realised my right eye was out of focus . . Oh damn, my lens has gone,
with
absolutely no chance of finding that, I continued on with Rosie sharing
the use
of the set, whilst I trained her to follow the highest signal instead
of a
null. After bagging token after token we arrived back
at 'A' shedding
our tokens into the postie tin.
Now 20 mins left, Rosie had 'B' but I
didn't,
she still wanted 'F' & 'G' though, and probed Phil into how far
they were,
he suggested there was not enough time left, I on the other hand rushed
off for
'B' then thought why not, I can only lose points for 'B' now so I
started the
long trek North towards 'F' & 'G', I ran as much as I could
until I found
you, luckily no time wasted at 'G'. Then 'F' was easy, so with about 7
mins
left I ran back and made it within 3 mins. I can tell you I was pretty
chuffed
with my effort, especially as I had resigned myself to a nill score 2
hours
previously!