Checkin

Dan Q found GC7B9AF Edinburgh’s Other Castle

26 June 2019 10:30 1

This checkin to GC7B9AF Edinburgh's Other Castle reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

My partner fleeblewidget and I have been cycling around Scotland as part of celebrations of the twelfth anniversary of us becoming a couple (a relationship that started in Edinburgh). On the way, we’ve been cherry-picking some of the most-interesting geocaches to hunt for as we’ve travelled.

After cycling our last leg from Glasgow to Edinburgh yesterday, we spent today visiting parts of the city we’d not seen before, including the hidden gem that is Craigmillar Castle. Fortunately, fleeblewidget has a life membership of English Heritage and as a result of a reciprocal arrangement with Scottish Heritage, and so our entry to this wonderful medieval castle was free of charge. An extended exploration of the grounds found us the relevant spot where we took the pictures attached. Email to the CO with the challenge answers will follow soon.

Thanks for setting up this virtual and helping us discover this corner of Edinburgh. FP awarded, and TFTC!

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Dan points to Edinburgh Castle in the distance

Dan Q found GC86M5G Camo Ammo

25 June 2019 16:45 1

This checkin to GC86M5G Camo Ammo reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Found after an extended search with fleeblewidget. Even though we knew exactly what we were looking for, based on the description etc., this still took us a while. Totally worth it! Greetings from Oxford. TFTC!

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Dan Q found GC3W69Q Philpstoun wander – Who stole the bridge?

25 June 2019 15:35 1

This checkin to GC3W69Q Philpstoun wander - Who stole the bridge? reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Found easily with fleeblewidget: we’ve come up from Oxford and we’re cycling from Glasgow to Edinburgh as part of our anniversary celebrations. Lovely spot, and yes, surely it was a bridge, once. TFTC!

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Dan Q found GC10QDG Choo Choo

25 June 2019 08:38 1

This checkin to GC10QDG Choo Choo reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Found with fleeblewidget while cycling to Edinburgh as part of our anniversary break. Beautiful spot!

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Dan Q found GC5N0VG The Bridge Of Sighs

24 June 2019 08:30 1

This checkin to GC5N0VG The Bridge Of Sighs reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Found with fleeblewidget at the start of our anniversary break cycling around Scotland. Our sleeper train got cancelled (grr) so we arrived from London on a rail replacement coach (ugh) and started our morning exploring the necropolis and finding this little cache. Super easy find, TFTC!

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Dan Q couldn’t find GC3753W Patchlake #2 – Are Dillon and Logan watching you?

23 June 2019 07:35 0

This checkin to GC3753W Patchlake #2 - Are Dillon and Logan watching you? reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Tried, but couldn’t hack through the thick vegetation that’s taken over this footpath. :-(

Dan Q found GC5DP66 Plackett Link

23 June 2019 07:11 0

This checkin to GC5DP66 Plackett Link reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Some serious vegetation got in my way here, but not for long. Hmm; got to the end of that path faster than I expected… perhaps I’ve time to find a couple more caches before the others wake and breakfast becomes a possibility…

Dan Q found GC7A2Q0 4. Placket Pathway

23 June 2019 07:00 0

This checkin to GC7A2Q0 4. Placket Pathway reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Nice to see a proper-sized cache container (although I did have to evict an earwig from it)! FP for that, and thanks for both this and the series. Greetings from Oxford!

Dan Q found GC7A2PJ 3. Placket Pathway

23 June 2019 06:52 0

This checkin to GC7A2PJ 3. Placket Pathway reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

A bit of to-and-fro to get a fix but then the cache was soon in my hand. Nettles are fierce today! TFTC.

Dan Q found GC7A2PB 2. Placket Pathway

23 June 2019 06:45 0

This checkin to GC7A2PB 2. Placket Pathway reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Wish I’d brought my GPSr; didn’t expect to be caching today so I’m running off my phone and it doesn’t do as good a job once close to GZ. Found this in the end, but as others have noted this isn’t a clip-lock container – description needs updating!

Dan Q found GC7A2NK 1. Placket Pathway

23 June 2019 06:30 0

This checkin to GC7A2NK 1. Placket Pathway reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

After a garden party next door last night I think I was first to wake up this morning as the sun shone through my tent. I was literally just sleeping in the field adjoining, not a hundred metres or so from the cache (the buildings here are in my partner‘s aunts garden!). Hopping the fence wasn’t tempting, so I left her garden normally then came down the path like I was supposed to and soon had the cache in hand.

Dan Q found GC6102Y Minecrafty 3 – Zombie

27 May 2019 16:30 1

This checkin to GC6102Y Minecrafty 3 - Zombie reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Found via quick diversion from my expedition to the 2019-05-27 51 -1 geohashpoint nearby. I don’t often find myself on this side of the city and I was pleased to find a good-sized and well maintained geocache here, in a park I’d never visited! Initially I took 6 the wrong path and had to double back but soon knew where to look. TFTC, SL.

Geohashing expedition 2019-05-27 51 -1

27 May 2019 15:58 1

This checkin to geohash 2019-05-27 51 -1 reflects a geohashing expedition. See more of Dan's hash logs.

Location

Hashpoint appears to be at the very end of Bleache Place, a suburban cul-de-sac in South-East Oxford. Looks very close to, but not on, the driveway of number 15. Possibly a convenient nearby lamp post for possibly attaching a “the Internet was here” sign?

Participants

Dan Q

Plans

(So long as he can get enough of his coursework done to justify taking a break), Dan Q plans to cycle out to the hashpoint at some point during the day.

Expedition

14:55 – okay, I’ve not finished as much of my coursework as I’d hoped, but I’ve finished enough that I can afford to take a break of a couple of hours to cycle out to the hashpoint, do a silly grin, put up a “The internet was here!” sign, and whatnot. Here we go!

15:58 – Success! Photos, tracklog, and details to follow. I’ve put a sign up so I wanted to put a message here for anybody who happens to see it and visit this page before I get home and finish writing-up!

Came home via geocache GC6102Y, safely home by 17:15 and back to studying!

Tracklog

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Photos

Dan Q found GC48ZDW The End Of The World is Nigh

28 April 2019 14:39 0

This checkin to GC48ZDW The End Of The World is Nigh reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Quick cache and dash while in the vicinity. Overshot the obvious parking place and so parked up the road at the premises of “Q Associates”. Figured they wouldn’t mind given than it’s Sunday. Plus their company has the same name as my surname, so I could probably claim it’s mine if anybody challenged me. Cool solution!