Dan Q

Kind: Checkins

Dan Q found GLMJ04R6 The dead and the undead.

This checkin to GLMJ04R6 The dead and the undead. reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Never seen a cache container like this one before! Brilliant!

Some colleagues and I from a voluntary organisation I’m part of have been spending the week up in Underhill on the other side of Brockweir, and I’ve been trying to get out and find a few of the local geocaches in-between bursts of volunteering activity. This lunchtime we ate in the Anchor Inn, and rather than ride back up by car to Underhill I opted to walk back and do a little ‘caching on the way. A brisk walk up this hill was my first leg, and it was well worth-it: a great cache in a beautiful location. TNLN, TFTC.

Dan Q found GLMHN2YN #4 Alice In Wyederland – Advice from a Caterpillar

This checkin to GLMHN2YN #4 Alice In Wyederland - Advice from a Caterpillar reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

This penultimate find of this morning’s expedition was wonderfully-placed: just a little off the path but in plain sight (if you know where you’re looking). And what wonderful theming, to boot! Took the “Cities bug # 1 Brussels” TB, because it looks like it hasn’t moved in a while. FP awarded.

Dan Q found GLMHN3EN #5 Alice In Wyederland – Cheshire Cat

This checkin to GLMHN3EN #5 Alice In Wyederland - Cheshire Cat reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Last find of my morning’s expedition was this one, a GZ well within sight of the windows of the house I’m staying in this week! Thanks for the first half of this series: I look forward to trying to find the other half later in the week.

Dan Q found GLMHN19T #1 Alice In Wyederland – Alice Down the Hole

This checkin to GLMHN19T #1 Alice In Wyederland - Alice Down the Hole reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

I’m spending some time in Underhill (near Brockweir) as part of an “away week”for volunteers at a non-profit organisation that I run, but thought that this looked like too good a series of caches to pass up on. Came out first things this morning, before anybody else got up, for a brisk but muddy walk up the river to the first cache. Nice easy find; TNLN.

Dan Q found GLMHN1GM #2 Alice in Wyederland – Drink Me or Eat Me?

This checkin to GLMHN1GM #2 Alice in Wyederland - Drink Me or Eat Me? reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Now this is what I like to see: a fun (and thematic) little multicache! The sun’s well over the horizon and my co-volunteers will be getting up soon, so I quicken my pace in my plan to get #1 through #5 on this particular short outing. FP awarded.

Dan Q found GLMEZV9T Serpentine hide

This checkin to GLMEZV9T Serpentine hide reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Once again narrowly beaten to a FTF by Go Catch! I don’t live a million miles from here, so I took a diversion on my cycle home. Knew exactly where to start looking, and spotted the container before I’d even dismounted from my bike! My pen’s leaking a bit, though: sorry for the inky fingerprints on the back of the log!

Dan Q found GLMDCFM3 Ghosts of Hampton Gay

This checkin to GLMDCFM3 Ghosts of Hampton Gay reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

An Easter Sunday adventure for my 2 y/of neice and I brought us out here to find this cache. Yesterday we found the one on the other side of the river and had talked about the ruins we could see in the distance, so this seemed like an obvious outing!

Wellie’d up we hit the trail, although the little monster’s wellies were mostly unnecessary as she insisted on riding atop my shoulders all the way to the GZ. On the way, she observed that the old manor house – with fences and warning signs all around but a small agricultural shelter within the grounds – “is for pigs, not for people”.

Fix at GZ was a little shaky so it took us a few minutes to find, but we got there in the end. No sign of the World Travel Geocoin or AEC Routemaster travel bugs, but a different bug in situ. TNLN, SL, and saw what might well have been another ‘cacher dismount his bike as we headed back to the road: good luck, possibly-fellow-cacher! TFTC.

Dan Q found GLMCQ378 54 with the jokers

This checkin to GLMCQ378 54 with the jokers reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Visited for an afternoon walk with my two-year-old niece. Easy find, and a nice cache in a nice location. Let the little ‘un choose where we signed the log (ultimately opting for one of the pictures of a lady): never seen a logbook like this one before! TNLN, TFTC.

Dan Q found GLMC2CK5 Have you got the right equipment

This checkin to GLMC2CK5 Have you got the right equipment reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

When I first saw this appear I thought that I’d have the FTF in the bag this morning. After all: nobody would come out last thing on a Tuesday night to start a multicache series, would they? Hah.

Well, come the morning I saw that I’d been beaten and opted to, instead of tackling the rush hour traffic, come along for a leisurely lunchtime look-see. The first waypoint was easy: I’m already equipped for wardriving so I just drove my car past the place (I didn’t even have to stop!) and then checked my laptop later – sure enough, only one detected SSID looked anything like GPS coordinates. The second waypoint slowed me down: for some reason, it took my GPSr a good long time to latch on to the Chirp and get the data I needed. Next up was the NFC tag, which was an easy find in the third place I looked. And finally, on to the cache itself which the coordinates lead me straight to.

Fantastic to see people doing things a little beyond the norm: things that take a little effort. Thanks for fab little adventure this lunchtime, and for a nice little cache. FP awarded.