DBK
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I'll get the grammer issue out of the way first. 
Should the title be "around" or "round"? Having exhaustively studied this question, or in other words I asked Google, I've come to the decision either word can be used. So there, it's done. We are going round a bit of Britain and this is Part 1 which is going to be very short as it only involves two campsites in Cornwall. But it's a start, Part 2 will begin in September and involve Wales, the Lake District, Scotland and the largely unknown to me East Coast of England. 
This is where we are today, under the blue blob at the CMC site near Tintagel on the Cornish North Coast.
And bringing my drone to a lower altitude. Spooky that Google Maps adds my booking...
What is it with the letter T in Cornish place names? Genuine question.
We are here because the site is just yards from the coastal footpath - and cliffs so this is not a place for somnambulists.
The edge of the site is in the top right of this photo and the cliffs and the path to the left.
Charlie led the way...in a light drizzle.
A bench with a view.
And another bench with sea views. This is looking north with the edge of Boscastle on the right.
The only shadow over our plans is the weather. The forecast is somewhat damp with the exception of tomorrow. Gales expected on Thursday!
So we must make the best of our one sunny day! There are a lot of geocaches around here and they will keep us busy tomorrow.
The one highlighted is themed around the wreck of an Italian sailing ship, the IOTA which hit the rocks below this headland. It's a puzzle cache and you have to work out the coordinates of the actual cache from the clues. I think I've done it - and will let you know if I was right tomorrow.
Here's the description and clue.
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Cache is not at the above published co-ordinates.
Figure the barque's sail plan from the nautical puzzle at the bottom of the cache page to acquire your coordinates.
A barque in heavy sea's
December 20th 1893, a mounted messenger galloped into Boscastle with news that a large ship was driving ashore, but by 4 pm the barque IOTA of Naples with an all Italian crew of eleven men and one boy had crashed under the great Lye rock off Bossiney Cove in a ranging gale and snow storm.
The whole face of the cliff was a mass of foam, some of the crew took to the waves or tried to jump from the mast on to the rock, cabin boy Domenico Cantanese , aged fourteen, was swept away with another seamen who tried to save him.
Two sailors reached the summit of the Lye rock, but though the Rocket Brigade fired a line over them, they were unable to use it.
Ignoring the gale and the fast-falling darkness, Coastguards went down the cliffs and, as the beach ebbed dry, scaled the pinnacle.
Quickly the sailors were sent over to the mainland by breeches-buoy, the other seven survivors were discovered a hundred feet down on the crag’s seaward side.
More Coastguards came over, and with their aid Charles Hambly a 'rockman'at the Longgrass Slate quarry in Tintagel was lowered down the cliff face; standing on a narrow ledge, buffeted by wind and hail squalls secured a lifeline around each of the Italians in turn, and were hauled up to safety.
Only the body of the young cabin boy was recovered from the sea, he’s buried in the windswept graveyard of St Materiana Church Tintagel, where a wooden cross and a lifebuoy bearing his name and ‘Iota, Napoli, 1893’ still marks his grave.
Cache can be found at N50 40.ABC W004 44.DEF
A = Inner jib + Flying jib.
BC = (Spanker boom x 4) + Main sail + Fore topgallant sail
D = Fore lower topsail.
EF = (Flying jib x 2) + (The gaff top sail x 2) + Fore topmast stay sail.
Should the title be "around" or "round"? Having exhaustively studied this question, or in other words I asked Google, I've come to the decision either word can be used. So there, it's done. We are going round a bit of Britain and this is Part 1 which is going to be very short as it only involves two campsites in Cornwall. But it's a start, Part 2 will begin in September and involve Wales, the Lake District, Scotland and the largely unknown to me East Coast of England. This is where we are today, under the blue blob at the CMC site near Tintagel on the Cornish North Coast.
And bringing my drone to a lower altitude. Spooky that Google Maps adds my booking...
What is it with the letter T in Cornish place names? Genuine question.
We are here because the site is just yards from the coastal footpath - and cliffs so this is not a place for somnambulists.
The edge of the site is in the top right of this photo and the cliffs and the path to the left.
Charlie led the way...in a light drizzle.
A bench with a view.
And another bench with sea views. This is looking north with the edge of Boscastle on the right.
The only shadow over our plans is the weather. The forecast is somewhat damp with the exception of tomorrow. Gales expected on Thursday!
So we must make the best of our one sunny day! There are a lot of geocaches around here and they will keep us busy tomorrow.
The one highlighted is themed around the wreck of an Italian sailing ship, the IOTA which hit the rocks below this headland. It's a puzzle cache and you have to work out the coordinates of the actual cache from the clues. I think I've done it - and will let you know if I was right tomorrow.
Here's the description and clue.
********
Cache is not at the above published co-ordinates.
Figure the barque's sail plan from the nautical puzzle at the bottom of the cache page to acquire your coordinates.
A barque in heavy sea's
December 20th 1893, a mounted messenger galloped into Boscastle with news that a large ship was driving ashore, but by 4 pm the barque IOTA of Naples with an all Italian crew of eleven men and one boy had crashed under the great Lye rock off Bossiney Cove in a ranging gale and snow storm.
The whole face of the cliff was a mass of foam, some of the crew took to the waves or tried to jump from the mast on to the rock, cabin boy Domenico Cantanese , aged fourteen, was swept away with another seamen who tried to save him.
Two sailors reached the summit of the Lye rock, but though the Rocket Brigade fired a line over them, they were unable to use it.
Ignoring the gale and the fast-falling darkness, Coastguards went down the cliffs and, as the beach ebbed dry, scaled the pinnacle.
Quickly the sailors were sent over to the mainland by breeches-buoy, the other seven survivors were discovered a hundred feet down on the crag’s seaward side.
More Coastguards came over, and with their aid Charles Hambly a 'rockman'at the Longgrass Slate quarry in Tintagel was lowered down the cliff face; standing on a narrow ledge, buffeted by wind and hail squalls secured a lifeline around each of the Italians in turn, and were hauled up to safety.
Only the body of the young cabin boy was recovered from the sea, he’s buried in the windswept graveyard of St Materiana Church Tintagel, where a wooden cross and a lifebuoy bearing his name and ‘Iota, Napoli, 1893’ still marks his grave.
Cache can be found at N50 40.ABC W004 44.DEF
A = Inner jib + Flying jib.
BC = (Spanker boom x 4) + Main sail + Fore topgallant sail
D = Fore lower topsail.
EF = (Flying jib x 2) + (The gaff top sail x 2) + Fore topmast stay sail.
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