This checkin to GCAABPG North Leigh Loop #7 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Completing our loop (minus a couple of DNFs, but plus a couple of nearby caches), this damp geopup and I were really happy to finish with this good-sized cache!
TFTC, and for the series, if which this was our favourite and so earns the FP.
Now we’d better go get cleaned and dry!
This checkin to GCAABNW North Leigh Loop #6 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Tougher than we expected to find – not only is this a stealthy container but it’s hidden unusually-thoroughly too! TFTC
I’m increasingly regretting my choice this morning to wear comfortable but not waterproof shoes rather than my not-fully-broken-in walking boots. Between the muddy puddles and the long wet grass, my feet are soaked!
This checkin to GCAABNV North Leigh Loop #5 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
No sign of this one, despite the geohound and I’s best efforts.
Maybe it washed away if the nearby drainage ditch broke its banks this winter?
This checkin to GC1QY29 Can Rabbits Climb Trees?? reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Coming up from Evergreen/Loop #4 the geohound and I made a poor guess about which side the the hedgerow we ought to be on, and – to avoid having to backtrack – opted to cut through red thicket just East of this cache. The little pupper got stuck and had to be carried, which was when I discovered that her belly was completely caked in thick mud. Eww!
We got here in the end and were delighted to find such a nice cache. TNLN, SL, and took advantage of the concealment provided by a nearby tree to relieve our bladders before continuing North. (Well I appreciated the concealment; the doggo is happy to widdle anywhere!)
This checkin to GCAABN0 North Leigh Loop #4 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
An extremely easy find, although a bit of a spiky retrieval. TFTC!
This checkin to GC1QYPN Back to Evergreen reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
The geopup and I are out doing the North Leigh Loop from New Yatt, where we’re temporarily living while our house is dried and damage assessed by the insurance company following a catastrophic flood a few weeks ago.
Between Loop #3 and #4 we took a small diversion to find this cache, and I’m glad that we did! So nice to see a properly-sized (and tenured) cache still rocking it!
Lid was not properly attached by a recent finder, sadly, and the container spilled its contents as I picked it up. But once we’d reassembled it all we were able to sign the log and continue our loop.
TFTC to both the hiders and adopters. FP awarded for being the first decent-sized cache I’ve seen today.
This checkin to GCAABMN North Leigh Loop #3 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
While the geohound busied herself with the important task of collecting sticks several times larger than herself, I began the search for what I’d figured would be a QEF.
Within the circle of uncertainty lay an obvious-looking host covered with obvious-looking candidate spots into which to squeeze a cache of this kind. After 15 minutes of searching where it “should” have been I wondered, per previous logs, if it might free fallen, and made a brief search of the mulch and leaf litter underfoot. No luck there either! After a total of nearly 20 minutes of searching, we had to give up.
This checkin to GCAABMJ North Leigh Loop #2 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Clearly I’ve trained the geohound well, because she found the geotrail out to this GZ before I did!
This cache is definitely benefitting from its layers of defense against the elements: the log, in its inner sanctum, was dry despite moisture getting through all the other layers! TFTC!
This checkin to GCAABME North Leigh Loop #1 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Coming to the “start” of this loop having come from the “end” gave the geohound and I a perfect vantage point to sight this QEF. Now it’s time to find out how boggy the trail to #2 is! If it’s as muddy as the one from #8 back to the village then we might need to make an alternative plan!
This checkin to GCB1N17 Square root of E/m reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
QEF for the geohound and I. My GPSr can’t connect to the Internet and I’m not retyping a URL into my phone so I can’t comment on the hint, but the cache itself is fine. SL, TFTC.
This checkin to GC7PC86 North Leigh Number 6 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Coming from Leigh Loop 8 the geohound and I figured we had an easy and direct run here, but intolerable mud at the East end of the field path drove us out onto the road and back before we could get to this cache. Even here, conditions were boggy and crossing the path to improve our certainty of our GPS coordinates was a drag! But we found it in the end pretty easily, although its logbook is so wet as to almost be unsignable! TFTC.
This checkin to GCAABQ1 North Leigh Loop #8 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Since our house flooded a few weeks ago we’ve been living out of a series of short holiday lets, waiting for the floors to dry out and the insurance company to assess the damage, before we’ll hopefully be able to secure a slightly longer tenancy somewhere while repairs are done.
Right now we’re staying in New Yatt. I’ve cached a little around here before, but never this loop, so this morning the geopup and I came out for a walk and to begin this loop… at its end!
After some initial difficulty getting a GPS fix we eventually found a good looking hiding place. Despite this being the first find out this cache and the terrible recent weather, the cache and its log are in fine condition. SL, TFTC!
Non-exhaustive list of things I’m doing when I’m writing code, that don’t look like “writing code”:
For all its faults, an AI agent might “write code” faster than me.
But that’s only a part of the process.
My typing speed is not the bottleneck.
This checkin to GC9EXXC Shady Seat on The Green reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Spring’s coming, and with it a stack of cachers either new or else returning from hibernation. Therefore; I’m briefly checking-in on my geocaches to ensure they’re in good condition. Today I peeped at this one, and found it happy and well and ready to be hunted. Go find it!
One last outing for the dog and I along the Cotswold lane we’ve been living on, before we move to different temporary accommodation tomorrow.
We’re hoping soon to no-longer have to move every week or two, but we’re not at that point yet.