NCI - Boscastle Traditional Geocache
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This cache takes in part of the SW coast path and gives stunning views across the coast.
Parking can be found in Green Lane, Boscastle where you will find the entrance to the footpath at N50 41.110
W 004 41.933. From this location it is about 1 mile round trip to the cache and back and should take no more than 25 minutes unless you stop to admire the views. Fairly flat but a few steady inclines in places.
This cache will form part of a series of caches placed at various National Coastwatch lookout's across the South West. The National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) is a voluntary organisation set up in 1994 to restore a visual watch along UK shores after many small Coastguard stations closed due to Government cutbacks. NCI is a registered charity and controlled by a board of Trustees with a Constitution agreed by the Charities Commission.
In 1994 when two fishermen lost their lives off the Cornish coast below a recently closed Coastguard lookout, local people decided to open and restore the visual watch. When the first station was opened at Bass Point on the Lizard, NCI was born. During the next ten years other stations followed and at the start of 2006 there were thirty operational stations keeping visual watch around the coastline of England and Wales.
NCI stations have been set up along the coast from Lands End in the South West to Hartlepool in the North East. Each station has a qualified and highly trained team to watch over its own particular area whether it is a popular seaside town, busy port or shipping area. Accidents will always happen at sea and along the coastline, wherever there is an NCI station a watchkeeper will be looking out for danger and ensuring your safety on the water.
High technology and sophisticated systems such as radar and telecommunications have vastly improved safety at sea, but there is no substitute for a watchful pair of eyes. Accidents do happen and a computer or technology cannot spot a distress flare, an overturned boat, a yacht with problems, a water sports enthusiast in difficulty, or children or adults in trouble, or possible pollution incidents. That is why the lookouts and watchkeepers are an important service provider to all those who use our coastal waters, footpaths and coastline.
AS ALWAYS with caches along the coast path, take great care and keep dogs and children on leads. This area is very exposed so go prepared for all weather conditions and take care in the wet.
Cache is in a plastic container, please don't disturb any natural habitat in vicinity as mice are nesting nearby.
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