Dan Q
This checkin to GLW69ZCE SFGE#1-UCL reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
The hard part wasn’t finding the cache this evening but getting to it in a stealthy way! I sat on a kerb nearby for some time and retrieved and returned the cache during periods during which the nearby security guard was distracted with passing revellers. Phew! TFTC.
This checkin to GCD6A6 The Trout Trek reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Dropped off a geocoin. Help it on its journey!
This checkin to GCD6A6 The Trout Trek reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Cache container replaced with a new, hardier one. Salvageable cache contents transferred over (safety specs, golf tee, eraser, mini tambourine). Added new logbook (including laminated copy of names and dates of every finder so far in the cache’s 15½-year history), pencils, and silica gel (to try to help keep the damp out). Added new tradables including rhino toy, “magic eye” playing cards, unactivated travel bug, ready-to-hide “bison tube”-style geocache, toy shed, metal puzzle.
I’ll be updating the cache description later today to bring it in line with features now available on this site that weren’t even the cache was first hidden (e.g waypoints) and to acknowledge the original CO.
Also: did since litter picking around the GZ including removing the latern battery spotted recently by another cacher.
This 15½ year-old cache is back in health!
This checkin to GLW5EFV2 Thames Path - Gatehampton Trail 3 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Attending a birthday party in a garden not 250m from this cache, I couldn’t help but excuse myself for five minutes in order to come out and log this cache. Nice hiding place! TFTC.
This checkin to GC56P51 CHIP 1 - Hartslock Approach reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Log bag has a hole and is very wet. Needs new bag and log sheet.
This checkin to GLW5FKG9 CHIP 1 - Hartslock Approach reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
As the geokid and I excused ourselves at the end of a garden party about 250m, we delayed going home by a few minutes to come and log this cache. Nice container, and a beautiful footpath.
This checkin to GLW543TA SideTracked - London Marylebone reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Quick and easy find with the geokid while on our way to catch a train home, after our trip to London Zoo. TFTC.
This checkin to GLW4XPYA Hotte's Cache 2: Godstow Road reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Found without too much difficulty while returning home from a picnic on Port Meadow. I know this pub well: I should have found this cache sooner! SL, TFTC.
This checkin to GCD6A6 The Trout Trek reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
The Trout Trek was transferred from The MBC to user Dan Q
This checkin to GLW4VK1D It's all water... reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
This was a fantastic puzzle which I’d only glanced at when it first appeared. Happily, when I looked at it again earlier this week it suddenly became obvious to me what I had to do. A lovely lunchtime cycle ride took me to the GZ, but unfortunately every muggle and their dog (literally) was in the vicinity. Not to be beaten, I found a nice place to sit and ate my sandwiches while I waited for them to disperse. Keeping my eyes peeled, I was able to see what I figured was the cache container. Soon, my opportunity came.
Fairly easy approach to the cache. Obviously I can see why it has the terrain rating it does, but perhaps it’s that I’ve been spoiled by the likes of GC13WZQ/OK0044. Ratings aren’t quite the same after you’ve done that one (at least if you did it the way I did). Tooled-up with the knowledge (from previous logs) that it might be a slippery walk, I began my approach. Hopping down from my step was the easy part. Easing the cache out of its hiding place while staying safe and dry was the tough bit!
Cache is exactly at the advertised position and remains dry within. A writing implement would be a good addition – if I’m in the vicinity in the near future I’ll drop off one of my (many) spare mini-pencils. Checking once more for muggles (in case they’d returned!) I returned the cache and began my escape. Helpfully, my work shoes have reasonably good grip and my return to the footpath wasn’t difficulty. Excellent cache and puzzle in a fabulous location; TFTC!
This checkin to GLW4F6ZZ SQL-imination reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Solved the puzzle a while ago (well, I had a spreadsheet do the heavy lifting because, as a computer programmer, I’m fundamentally lazy and won’t do anything that I can make a computer do for me), but only today found the excuse to zip out to the GZ on a lunch break and log the cache. The cache is getting damp and I think the culprit might be a drip right above where I found it: to help keep it dry I’ve moved it about 10cm away from the “corner”, where it should get dripped on a little less. TFTC!
This checkin to GLW4HX2Q my first geocach reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Surprisingly busy out here tonight with lots of walkers, cyclists, boaters and even a swimmer or two! Very easy find, I’d describe this as D1.5/T1.5! TFTC.
This checkin to GLW4J07A beware of margarets well reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Don’t know what previous DNFs are on about, this was an easy find in the second place I looked. Log too wet to write on, so I’ve taken one of the (many) spare logbook pages and made it into the shape of a letter D for Dan (pictured), then returned it to the cache, to show that I was here! Lovely spot. TFTC.
This checkin to GLW4J9AE The Trout Trek reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
A late journey home and a slight diversion brought me up the wonderful Thames Path through Binsey and up to here to find this brilliant cache. It took into the final 150m from the GZ that I realised that really: a bike was NOT the right mode of transportation for this one (see if you can spot my route in the attached photo)! Still I pressed on and got to within 50m of the GZ before having to leave my vehicle behind and brave the nettles, fence, and boggy ground.
Cache in bad condition: missing log and writing implement, mild damage to container. If it’s true that it’s been abandoned I’d be happy to adopt it to keep this great location and cache alive! I’m moderately local (my commute isn’t far away and I’m sometimes caught drinking at the Trout) and I have the perfect replacement container just sitting in my shed ready to go, so I’ll contact the CO.
TFTC. FP awarded. I’m so bored of yet-another-magnetic-nano or city-centre-puzzle that it was genuinely a treat to see a cache that ticks all the boxes of things I love best about the sport.
This checkin to GLW489XJ Bird watching reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
A quick and easy find on a diversion from my morning cycle commute. A man parked in a van nearby made me think I’d need to use my stealth skills, but he turned out to be asleep. Not sure how this cache will stand up against the winter weather, but for now this is a great spot and I was glad of the excuse to visit. TFTC!