On
this occasion it occurred during one of our moorland wanderings. During our walk
we’d paused to take in the view and enjoy some refreshments. Sometime later
that sinking feeling struck. “I thought you’d
got it?” “But you had it last…” Safe in the knowledge that it was most unlikely
another walker would locate, let alone walk off with, our missing possession,
we continued our walk and resolved to search for it during our return journey.
A
thought came to me. During our break I’d meandered around the spot we’d stopped
at in order to get a variety of perspectives on the view. With a little luck my
meandering was sufficient to show up if I zoomed into our track on our GPS.
Good old Garmin – there it was. Marking the spot with a waypoint, we were able to
navigate back to where we hoped our missing object might still be. The tension
rose as we counted down to the last few paces – and there it was, just two foot
away from where the GPS said it should be.
Moral
of the story? It may be necessary to take a spare GPS with you in case the
object you inadvertently lose is your GPS. (In our case it wasn’t a GPS.)
