Mendip Rocks!

The Somerset Wildlife Trust and Wells and Mendip Museum are collaborating on a brilliant project called Mendip Rocks! An Earth caching trail will be developed across the AONB landscape. An EarthCache, unlike most Geocaches has no traditional cache container or a log book. The purpose of an EarthCache is to share information about a particular geological feature of our planet Earth, and the object is to learn something about it. When an EarthCache is visited, participants will learn something interesting about the geology and in this case how this has influenced the biodiversity of the area. Investigative work will be required to answer questions in order to ‘claim’ the cache online.
Experience elsewhere has shown that this innovative adventurous method of interpretation attracts new audiences into the countryside and encourages their appreciation of it. This is a cost effective way of producing interpretive material and is aimed at an audience that might not otherwise access interpretation. The caches will be located on SWT reserves in the first instance to determine the success of the approach. Caches will be targeted at robust environments in open access land or on public rights of way to avoid potential damage to features that are being interpreted.
Help is needed! SWT needs assistance to write the geological interpretive information and upload this on to the Earthcache website. If you are interested contact SWT