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Month: November 2024

  • A sculpture (called 'gossip') is a bench with birdlike feet and a head comprised of a mouth with a long tongue and several listening tubes. Alongside it, Dan's mother - a woman wearing a grey bobble hat and a blue raincoat - attempts to mime the same mouth shape.

    Did not find GC5EJVD Town Gossip

    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 โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC5EJVD
    • posted 25 November, 2024
  • A cylindrical metal sculpture stands upright on a spindle, in a manner slightly reminiscient of a kebab. It's decorated with hundreds of small contemporary handheld objects such as spanners, rings, spoons, and chess pieces. Dan and his mother Doreen stand in front, both pointing to a Nintendo Game Boy.

    Found GC9P641 Arch kebab 2.0

    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.

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    • Checkin
    • to GC9P641
    • posted 25 November, 2024
  • Dan stands in front of a ruined priory.

    Found GC5GDTX Walls and Games

    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 โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC5GDTX
    • posted 25 November, 2024
  • 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.

    Full image of A pint of Guinness alongside a can, on a tiled bathroom shelf.
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    A pint of Guinness alongside a can, on a tiled bathroom shelf.

    • Note
    • posted 24 November, 2024
  • Dan and his mum, lit by phone-light, stand in a dark forest.

    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 โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC6VYP1
    • posted 24 November, 2024
  • 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 โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC6VYKX
    • posted 24 November, 2024
  • 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 โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC6VYKF
    • posted 24 November, 2024
  • 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, โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC6VYK0
    • posted 24 November, 2024
  • 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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    • Checkin
    • to GC6VYJC
    • posted 24 November, 2024
  • A woman in a bobble hat and a blue raincoat crawls into a gap between two boulders.

    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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    • Checkin
    • to GC6VYJ1
    • posted 24 November, 2024
  • 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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    • Checkin
    • to GC6VYHH
    • posted 24 November, 2024
  • 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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    • Checkin
    • to GC6VYHC
    • posted 24 November, 2024
  • 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, โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC6VYGY
    • posted 24 November, 2024
  • 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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    • Checkin
    • to GC6QJDW
    • 1 comment
    • posted 24 November, 2024
  • 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.

    Full image of 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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    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.

    • Note
    • posted 24 November, 2024

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