Checkins – Page 19

Dan and his mother, smiling, in frozen countryside, with fog behind.

Geohashing expedition 2024-11-27 53 -8

A sixth Irish geohashing trip in Ireland spelled disaster. The hashpoint itself was easy, but we missed our flight back to the UK and ended up having to road-trip our way coast-to-coast to get back to somewhere we could catch a plane in the morning...

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posted 27 November, 2024

Dan, in a dense forest at twilight, holds aloft a large ammo can. His other hand holds his phone, used as a flashlight.

Found GC9QNY4 NFCache

This checkin to GC9QNY4 NFCache reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Despite having been hidden as recently as 2022, this "feels" like an old-school cache. A non-trivial offset, a real scramble through the terrain to find it, and a generous-sized container at the other end. Back around 2010 many more …

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posted 26 November, 2024

Found GC6TZ1G CachePoint

This checkin to GC6TZ1G CachePoint reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After a boat tour of the bay and a delightful late lunch, my mum and I came out here to find this cache as the last of three muggles present were packing up. TFTC!

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posted 26 November, 2024

Dan and his mother ride on the back of a boat through a bay full of islands. In the distance, the distinctive shape of Clare Island can be seen, jutting out from the sea, and to the left of it a red pin is superimposed upon the image with the message 'hashpoint is here'.

Geohashing expedition 2024-11-26 53 -9

A fifth geohashing trip in Ireland for me and my mum was foiled when I couldn't find anybody who'd take my money in exchange for driving us to a random spot out in the sea. We took a boat tour but it didn't come close enough to score.

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posted 26 November, 2024

Dan and his mother stand on a bridge with a weir behind them.

Found GC1X432 Swan Lake

This checkin to GC1X432 Swan Lake reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found by my mother and I while exploring the area. What a beautiful estate, thanks for bringing us here. Log slightly damp but usable. TFTC. Greetings from Oxfordshire and Lancashire, UK!

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posted 26 November, 2024

Did not find GC9VD2M Claremorris_01

This checkin to GC9VD2M Claremorris_01 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Two of us hunted for about 10 minutes without any luck. We found a the host object without difficulty and soon found a man-made hook upon touch we suspect the cache might once have resided. Eventually we had to …

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posted 25 November, 2024

Dan stands in front of a blue bench, in the rain, in front of a stone wall.

Found GCA0R10 Leabharlann 📚

This checkin to GCA0R10 Leabharlann 📚 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF for my mother and I as we passed through Claremorris. Excellent hiding place for the area and a great condition of cache, FP awarded. SL, TFTC.

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posted 25 November, 2024

Dan and his mother grin in a grassy field.

Geohashing expedition 2024-11-25 53 -8

My mother and I's fourth geohashing trip in Ireland and third successful expedition took us to a muddy field East of the town of Claremorris (where were were later able to award ourselves a slap-up lunch!).

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posted 25 November, 2024

A sculpture (called 'gossip') is a bench with birdlike feet and a head comprised of a mouth with a long tongue and several listening tubes. Alongside it, Dan's mother - a woman wearing a grey bobble hat and a blue raincoat - attempts to mime the same mouth shape.

Did not find GC5EJVD Town Gossip

This checkin to GC5EJVD Town Gossip reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Like many others before us, we failed to find this cache. Based in the hint, we're confident we were looking in thir right place. A real shame for it to be missing, but my mum and I enjoyed …

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posted 25 November, 2024

A cylindrical metal sculpture stands upright on a spindle, in a manner slightly reminiscient of a kebab. It's decorated with hundreds of small contemporary handheld objects such as spanners, rings, spoons, and chess pieces. Dan and his mother Doreen stand in front, both pointing to a Nintendo Game Boy.

Found GC9P641 Arch kebab 2.0

This checkin to GC9P641 Arch kebab 2.0 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF for me and my mum during our flying visit to the town. Attached is a photo of us about to enter the Konami Code and see if it gives us extra lives or something.

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posted 25 November, 2024

Found GC5GDTX Walls and Games

This checkin to GC5GDTX Walls and Games reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A delightful walk under the walls of the castle and the priory while visiting Athenry on our way to a geohashpoint stone way North of here. Clues easily collected, we quickly found the cache and signed the …

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posted 25 November, 2024

Dan and his mum, lit by phone-light, stand in a dark forest.

Wrote note for GC6VYP1 Congratulations

This checkin to GC6VYP1 Congratulations reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. We really wanted to attempt this one, but it wasn't to be. We added up all the numbers we'd collected on our journey but got a number three out from the requisite checksum. We attempted to guess what we'd …

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posted 24 November, 2024

Found GC6VYKX The Twist

This checkin to GC6VYKX The Twist reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Struggling in the dark, I slipped onto my bottom as I attempted to get around to the far side of the twisted host, and while I picked myself up and beat off my muddy jeans my mother quickly …

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posted 24 November, 2024

Found GC6VYKF Reach For The Stars

This checkin to GC6VYKF Reach For The Stars reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. We had to try a couple of candidates in the growing dark before we found the right host, and even then needed to stretch quite a long way to open and close this cache container. But …

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posted 24 November, 2024

Found GC6VYK0 Riverdance

This checkin to GC6VYK0 Riverdance reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. We were slightly concerned about this one, given the cache description. Wading across a river didn't sound fun given recent floods: it could be deeper and faster than expected. Fortunately there turns out to be a bridge here now, …

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posted 24 November, 2024