Letterboxing

No TV, no WiFi, no mobile signal, no electricity from midnight to 6am. In fact no cars and barely no roads. But plenty of wildlife, stunning scenery and interesting places to explore. Lundy is fab. Today we went Letterboxing. It's the Lundy equivalent of an extreme treasure hunt. It's most certainly not a Lindt Easter Bunny Trail and not for the faint hearted. The clues are really hard and often need a compass,  a good head for heights and a lot of persistence. It's brilliant fun though and a triumphant shout is hard to suppress when the hidden box, which contains a rubber stamp unique to each clue, is discovered. There are 28 stamps to collect and one of the clues even requires a spring tide for it to be attempted. Here we'd just climbed to the lantern room of the Old Light to find a stamp there. The Old Light was built in the middle of the island to warn ships away from the island's rocky shores but no one thought to check that the beam would be visible out in the channel when it was foggy. Unfortunately, after all that effort, it wasn't.