Dan Q

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Dan Q found GC5N0VG The Bridge Of Sighs

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 found GC5DP66 Plackett Link

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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 GC7A2PB 2. Placket Pathway

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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

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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.

Campsite in the Paddock behind Ruth's aunt's house

Dan Q found GC6102Y Minecrafty 3 – Zombie

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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

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

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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Dan Q found GC48ZDW The End Of The World is Nigh

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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!

Dan at the car park of "Q Associates"

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Dan Q enabled GC86MHH Top of the Footpath

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Turns out the glue I’d used had interacted badly with the material: wasn’t melting because of the heat (although that won’t have helped) but because of a chemical reaction on the plastic! Repaired and replaced, all good to go now!