Day: 24 November 2024
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It's been a long day of driving around Ireland, scrambling through forests, navigating to a hashpoint, exploring a medieval castle, dodging the rain, finding a series of geocaches, getting lost up a hill in the dark, and generally having a kickass time with one of my very favourite people on this earth: my mum.
And now it's time for a long soak in a hot bath with a pint of the black stuff and my RSS reader for company. A perfect finish.
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A pint of Guinness alongside a can, on a tiled bathroom shelf.
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Wrote note for GC6VYP1 Congratulations
This checkin to GC6VYP1 Congratulations reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. We really wanted to attempt this one, but it wasn't to be. We added up all the numbers we'd collected on our journey but got a number three out from the requisite checksum. We attempted to guess what we'd …
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Found GC6VYKX The Twist
This checkin to GC6VYKX The Twist reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Struggling in the dark, I slipped onto my bottom as I attempted to get around to the far side of the twisted host, and while I picked myself up and beat off my muddy jeans my mother quickly …
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Found GC6VYKF Reach For The Stars
This checkin to GC6VYKF Reach For The Stars reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. We had to try a couple of candidates in the growing dark before we found the right host, and even then needed to stretch quite a long way to open and close this cache container. But …
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Found GC6VYK0 Riverdance
This checkin to GC6VYK0 Riverdance reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. We were slightly concerned about this one, given the cache description. Wading across a river didn't sound fun given recent floods: it could be deeper and faster than expected. Fortunately there turns out to be a bridge here now, …
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Found GC6VYJC Love Shack
This checkin to GC6VYJC Love Shack reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Some muggles were sitting on the nearby barrier so some stealth was required for us to carefully retrieve and return this one. TFTC.
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Found GC6VYJ1 Pump Up The Volume
This checkin to GC6VYJ1 Pump Up The Volume reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Sent my mother in to to a variety of holes in boulders to try to find this one before we picked it up and had the cache - and its bonus number - in-hand!
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Found GC6VYHH Under The Boardwalk
This checkin to GC6VYHH Under The Boardwalk reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Power-walking on around the trail we quickly found the clue object. I figured it was worth braving the (high) water and getting below the bridge, so I scrambled down and soon found the cache. Good location!
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Found GC6VYHC California Dreamin'
This checkin to GC6VYHC California Dreamin' reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. We quickly circled this tree before spotting the right location. Good colour for this cache container. Making a note of the number, we pressed on...
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Found GC6VYGY Absolute Beginners
This checkin to GC6VYGY Absolute Beginners reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My mother and I are visiting Ireland (from Lancashire, UK and Oxfordshire, UK, respectively) on a mission to find geohashpoints in previously-unexplored graticules, and find a few carefully-selected geocaches along the way. Today we were our near Kilsheelan, …
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Found GC6QJDW Cahir Castle
This checkin to GC6QJDW Cahir Castle reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF for my mum and I on our way from this graticule's hashpoint (after a successful geohashing expedition) to visit the castle. Logbook very full, will soon need replacing. TFTC.
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Gorgeous view of Slievenamon towering over Kilsheelan, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, as seen from Gurteen Wood, where my mother and I are just on our way back from our successful expedition to the 2024-11-24 52 -7 geohashpoint.
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Under a blue-white sky, a rounded hill towers over a fertile green valley dotted with little white houses, as seen from between the trees of an ancient forest.
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Geohashing expedition 2024-11-24 52 -7
On our first full day in Ireland, my mother and I found our way to a hashpoint in a virgin graticule, by stomping our way through an overgrown abandoned pasture.
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With Storm Bert raining off our plans for geohashing in Co. Limerick, my mother and I are off into a forest in Co. Tipperary in search of a hashpoint over this way. It's still pretty wet though.
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A woman wearing a grey bobble hat and a blue coat walks away down a forest track.
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Step 2: brave the fierce weather surrounding Storm Bert and head out into rural Ireland in search of a geohashpoint.
But first, the crucial step 1: a big ol' bacon and egg sarnie for breakfast.
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Bacon and egg sandwich on granary bread, with two bites taken out of it.