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This checkin to GC5EJVD Town Gossip reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Like many others before us, we failed to find this cache. Based in the hint, we’re confident we were looking in thir right place. A real shame for it to be missing, but my mum and I enjoyed this piece of art.
This checkin to GC9P641 Arch kebab 2.0 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
QEF for me and my mum during our flying visit to the town. Attached is a photo of us about to enter the Konami Code and see if it gives us extra lives or something.
This checkin to GC5GDTX Walls and Games reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
A delightful walk under the walls of the castle and the priory while visiting Athenry on our way to a geohashpoint stone way North of here. Clues easily collected, we quickly found the cache and signed the log before the rain got any heavier! TFTC!
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.
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 recorded incorrectly and had a couple of reasonable guesses, but the growing darkness was making it increasingly difficult (and a little dangerous) to be out exploring without torches, so we had to give up (we’d probably not have found it in the dark anyway).
The whole series was delightful and we loved finding them. It was a shame not to get the bonus (which was our own fault really: setting off too late and having to rush made us make a mistake, clearly!), but we had so much fun with the ones we did find that it was all worthwhile anyway. Big kudos to the CO; thanks!
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 found the cache. Hurrah!
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 eventually we’d managed.
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, and doubly-fortunately we were able to find the cache without too much difficulty.
The sun was beginning to set over the horizon; we didn’t have long left to complete the loop…
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.
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!
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!
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…
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, down the Suir Valley, making a successful expedition for the 2024-11-24 52 -7 geohashpoint which turned out to be deep within a forest on the hills over the River Suir. Flushed with success, we had our lunch, visited Cahir Castle (and found its nearest geocache), and then made our way over here to attempt this circuit of caches.
We knew we were starting late and were risking the mercy of the setting sun, but we figured that powerwalking and quick finds might see us through. We parked right next to this first cache, found it (it doesn’t have a logbook, by the way!), retrieved the first number, and marched on. Could we do it? Time would tell!
(FP awarded on behalf of the series, which was excellent)
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.
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.
