CaptainChaos
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To celebrate the recent purchase of my first PROPER 4x4 it was decided by the TEAM TICTAC members (a couple of mates who are well ................ a bit nuts really!) that a days greenlaning was required as a very basic introduction to offroading for a newbie who was to be honest as green as the lanes being driven on 
............ by the way thats me people
Barry, Matt, myself and families met up at the old Hayle electric works car park on the cliffs at 10.30 ....... ish
It then fell to Barry to lead the way and Jules to do the map reading from their V8 Disco
Now bearing in mind that family were along for the ride and that i was not particularly experienced with driving off the tarmac Barry decided some nice simple lanes around the Hayle area would be a good start and that after this we should head over towards the Hallamanning and Penzance area's where some slightly more challenging routes lay (for a novice anyways)
Heres where the fun really started ........... you see Barry and Jules did a fantastic job of leading the way but it seemed that the map wasn't strictly telling the truth on one chosen route ........... the look on the old geezers face as three rumbling disco's decended his driveway was a picture not to missed ........ however due to the fact that my camera was in the boot it will be a picture that only those present on the day will be able to chuckle over for years to come
After ruining the peace and tranquility of a Sunday morning for the above mentioned unfortunate elderly gentleman it was decided to leave the area and head over to Botallack and let the kids run and get some grub down our necks ........ but on the way and going down a very steep hill those words that no parent ever wants to hear came from the back seat ...... "Daddy ........ i feel sick!"
An emergency was narrowly averted by good brakes and military precision in the extraction of a very green faced child .......... who then didnt even have the decency to purge his breakfast but instead chose to stand at the side of the road looking forlorn for a few minutes ........... KIDS!!!!
After getting to Botallack's old mine workings tea coffee and sarnies turned out to be the chefs special of the day and the kids were left to run riot for an hour or so while all parents enjoyed a little respite from the "our we there yet's" and back seat bickering.
At this point Barry decided that he wanted to go potholing in a cave found nearby ....... Matt chickened out muttering something about a film called THE DESCENT .......... WIMP!! lol ........ so myself and Barry decided that for the good of mankind womankind and any other kind of kind that might be even remotely interested to investigate the "cave"
Cue spooky music and 2 dumbass's armed with head torches (guess who got the one with duff battery!!) .............
Well as it turns out the cave was something of an anticlimax as no flesh eating freaks of evolution were to be found ........ however the cave itself made for another interesting adventure ..... especially the strange algae/lichon that glowed flourescent yellow/green in the torch light ....... weird!!
After returning from our underground expedition (yes i'm milking it a bit but thats life) Matt and Barry decided to try to fool us all into thinking they knew how to read a map ..............
Oh how we laughed
To end the day we decided that some pictures on the beach at Marazion would finish things off nicely.........
I think one of the others has some more pics of the day so i'll try to get hold of them and add them to this thread at a later date
Thanks for a great day out guys n gals ....... look forward to the next one
............ by the way thats me people Barry, Matt, myself and families met up at the old Hayle electric works car park on the cliffs at 10.30 ....... ish
It then fell to Barry to lead the way and Jules to do the map reading from their V8 Disco
Now bearing in mind that family were along for the ride and that i was not particularly experienced with driving off the tarmac Barry decided some nice simple lanes around the Hayle area would be a good start and that after this we should head over towards the Hallamanning and Penzance area's where some slightly more challenging routes lay (for a novice anyways)
Heres where the fun really started ........... you see Barry and Jules did a fantastic job of leading the way but it seemed that the map wasn't strictly telling the truth on one chosen route ........... the look on the old geezers face as three rumbling disco's decended his driveway was a picture not to missed ........ however due to the fact that my camera was in the boot it will be a picture that only those present on the day will be able to chuckle over for years to come
After ruining the peace and tranquility of a Sunday morning for the above mentioned unfortunate elderly gentleman it was decided to leave the area and head over to Botallack and let the kids run and get some grub down our necks ........ but on the way and going down a very steep hill those words that no parent ever wants to hear came from the back seat ...... "Daddy ........ i feel sick!"
An emergency was narrowly averted by good brakes and military precision in the extraction of a very green faced child .......... who then didnt even have the decency to purge his breakfast but instead chose to stand at the side of the road looking forlorn for a few minutes ........... KIDS!!!!
After getting to Botallack's old mine workings tea coffee and sarnies turned out to be the chefs special of the day and the kids were left to run riot for an hour or so while all parents enjoyed a little respite from the "our we there yet's" and back seat bickering.
At this point Barry decided that he wanted to go potholing in a cave found nearby ....... Matt chickened out muttering something about a film called THE DESCENT .......... WIMP!! lol ........ so myself and Barry decided that for the good of mankind womankind and any other kind of kind that might be even remotely interested to investigate the "cave"
Cue spooky music and 2 dumbass's armed with head torches (guess who got the one with duff battery!!) .............
Well as it turns out the cave was something of an anticlimax as no flesh eating freaks of evolution were to be found
........ however the cave itself made for another interesting adventure ..... especially the strange algae/lichon that glowed flourescent yellow/green in the torch light ....... weird!!After returning from our underground expedition (yes i'm milking it a bit but thats life) Matt and Barry decided to try to fool us all into thinking they knew how to read a map ..............
Oh how we laughed
To end the day we decided that some pictures on the beach at Marazion would finish things off nicely.........
I think one of the others has some more pics of the day so i'll try to get hold of them and add them to this thread at a later date
Thanks for a great day out guys n gals ....... look forward to the next one
