During a nice stroll around this lovely nature reserve (including a look at the artificial “bat cave” that’s been formed out of the remains of the old railway tunnel), I found this
cache after an embarrassingly-long hunt. I choose to blame my GPSr being thrown off by all the trees, but in actual fact it’s my bad observation skills that are to blame for this one
taking me so long! Lovely little cache; delighted to have found it!
This cache was a primary goal of mine, today, because a travel bug I set off on it’s travels (a long while back, and in Wales), “The Oxford Scouting Party”, had safely landed here and I
wanted to pick it up. Coming up the path from London Road after such rain was a mistake, because the path was wet and slippery, but I got there in the end and found the cache without
too much difficulty (although I did need the clue to help make sure I was looking in the right place!). Took my travel bug, left a rubber bouncy ball and a sliding puzzle of a tiger.
And I did get to see a grouse or two on the way up! Two grouse? Grouses? Grice???
Thanks for a wonderful cache and an enjoyable walk.
After a hard uphill trek through slippery mud (in inadequate shoes) I got to this easy cache. Lots of stuff in the box, but TNLN. Thanks for giving me an excuse to stop for a break
before pressing on to Famous Grouse!
Should have been easy, but not one but TWO cars were parked right in the way of the cache… and one of them was being unloaded by it’s owners at the time! I stood around with my bike,
looking like a wally, until they went away, and then squeezed past to find the cache. TFTC.
Wonderful little cache in a devious little hiding place. Looked in the right place several times before I thought to let a curious finger do the exploring for me! Got strange looks from
passers-by and so had to pretend to be on the phone… Great cache: thanks!
I’ve visited dozens of times – I only live around the corner – but never realised that it was a virtual cache. Picture doesn’t include me nor my GPSr because (a) my GPSr (on my phone)
is my camera and (b) I couldn’t find anybody to take the picture for me (there was only a confused-looking traffic warden around). So you’ll have to suffice with a picture of the
landmark itself…
Found without lid nor magnets, soaking wet, buried in pile of leaves: this one’s a goner. I’m removing the cache and I’ll arrange to get it back to it’s owner as soon as possible, but
until then this cache should be considered absent!
Excellent cache! One of my favourites of the day’s hunt: and I was so glad I wore laced shoes, as you suggest, because that made all the difference when it came to retrieving and
replacing this fabulous little cache. Log was full – couldn’t find space to write – so I’ve instead taken a picture of this imaginative little cache (warning: photo contains minor
spoilers about what you’re looking for).
I love this park in the summertime, but in the depths of a wet winter it was more than a little difficult to get to the cache, and involved wading through ankle-deep water in the swampy
area around the cache! Persevered, though, and found it in the end! TFTC.
The goddesses of the satellites were with me! On this, my second cache of the day (and many of the others I found today), my GPSr took me right up to within a metre of the cache!
Like the previous visitor, I parked my bike up on the “wrong” side of the steam, but thankfully I was able to hop across without too much difficulty and find this little cache.
I can’t decipher the numbers! I’ve come up with values for B and C which are too low to be able to deduct some of the values that the formula requires me to… maybe there’s something I’m
missing…
This cache has been removed as it is no longer intact (lid and magnet missing, camouflage fallen off). Photo included. I’ll arrange to deliver this to the owner so that it can be
repaired and replaced, hopefully.
Oh yeah: I changed the look-and-feel of scatmania.org the other week, in case you hadn’t noticed. It’s become a
sort-of-traditional January activity for me, these years, to redesign the theme of my blog at this point in the year.
This year’s colours are black, white, greys, and red, and you’ll note also that serifed fonts are centre-stage again, appearing pretty-much-universally throughout the site for the first
time since 2004. Yes, I know that it’s heavier and darker than previous versions of the site: but it’s been getting fluffier and lighter year on year for ages, now, and I thought it was
time to take a turn. You know: like the economy did.
This new design has elements in common with the theme before last: a big blue header, an off-white background, and sans-serif faces.
Aside from other cosmetic changes, it’s also now written using several of the new technologies of HTML5 (I may put the shiny new logo on it, at some point). So apologies to those of you running archaic and non-standards-compliant browsers (I’m looking at you, Internet
Explorer 6 users) if it doesn’t look quite right, but really: when your browser is more than half as old as the web itself, it’s time to upgrade.
I’ve also got my site running over IPv6 – the next generation Internet protocol – for those of you who care about those sorts of things. If you don’t know why IPv6 is important and “a
big thing”, then here’s a simple explanation.
Right now you’re probably viewing the IPv4 version: but if you’re using an IPv6-capable Internet connection, you might be viewing the IPv6 version. You’re not missing out, either way:
the site looks identical: but this is just my tiny contribution towards building the Internet of tomorrow.
(if you really want to, you can go to ipv6.scatmania.org to see the IPv6 version – but it’ll only work if your Internet Service
Provider is on the ball and has set you up with an IPv6 address!)
