And then all of a sudden there was just one weekend to go to the Mega – and the weather was awful, blowing a howling gale and pouring with rain – not the weekend to be camping !
I made 7 trips to the Newby Hall campsite the weekend before the Mega started, one of those was on the Saturday Morning on my way over to the Dalby Forest for Piratemania

28th July 2018 – Piratemania 11 GC7FWD6 – cache #4486
As usual I was only at Piratemania for the day, which was good as there was a torrential downpour as I drove over and the wind was so strong that there was definite danger of some of the campsite blowing away !

28th July 2018 – Piratemania Lab Cache – cache #4487
As usual for Megas there was the usual lab caches to do, all the codes were names of seas or oceans
Beware of the Kraken – codeword ‘Coral’ (though actually because of a technical mix-up the answer required was ‘indian’

28th July 2018 – Piratemania Lab Cache – cache #4488
Bilge – codeword ‘indian’

28th July 2018 – Piratemania Lab Cache – cache #4489
Cannon Balls – codeword ‘mediterranean’

28th July 2018 – Piratemania Lab Cache – cache #4490
Fishing Well – codeword ‘adriatic’

28th July 2018 – Piratemania Lab Cache – cache #4491
gROTten 13 – codeword ‘caribbean’

28th July 2018 – Piratemania Lab Cache – cache #4492
Pick a lock – codeword ‘pacific’

28th July 2018 – Piratemania Lab Cache – cache #4493
Sail Away – codeword ‘atlantic’

28th July 2018 – Piratemania Lab Cache – cache #4494
Spread the Word – codeword ‘philippine’

28th July 2018 – Piratemania Lab Cache – cache #4495
Treasure Map – codeword ‘arabian’

28th July 2018 – Piratemania Lab Cache – cache #4496
YO HO HO – codeword ‘sargasso’