This checkin to GC531M9 Walk by the Firehouse #1 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Coming here during the daytime may have been mistake: I wasn’t able to search effectively while people from the industrial estate kept coming down here for their cigarette breaks, and a forklift driver was watching me suspiciously. Gave up after about 10 unproductive minutes.
This checkin to GLVZ47BH Circular Walk reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
While running an errand in Eynsham I thought I’d take the opportunity to explore some of the local geocaches. This one was the first, and I was glad of the hint (and also glad that I was dressed appropriately for stomping down nettles – quite the crop of them this spring!) or else I’d have been stuffed! TFTC.
This checkin to GLVZ4C8V Walk by the Firehouse #3 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Found without difficulty after a short search. Nice to see something a bit different than the usual placement. Container possibly missing a part: may need attention before the next severe weather but probably okay for now. TFTC.
This checkin to GLVZ4FH9 Walk by the Firehouse #5 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Quick and easy find; nice container.
This checkin to GLVYGRN8 Boggling Boolean reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Given that I’ve lived very near to here for longer than this cache has existed, you’d be forgiven for wondering what took me so long. I don’t even have the excuse that many might: that the array of strange symbols, lines, and letters might be too puzzling for me, but that’s not the case either! When the cache first appeared I instantly recognised the language that was being used: I just couldn’t work out how that could be used to express a set of GPS coordinates.
Today, at long last, I thought to look at the hint. I can’t believe it’s been years and I hadn’t: I guess I’d assumed that it would have only helped me with the location of the actual container, more fool me. Anyway: once I read the hint, I instantly knew what I had to do. I was feeling lazy, so I translated the code into a slightly different format and punched it into an online service that can help with this kind of thing, and suddenly I was over 80% of the way there. But one digit (the fourth) was throwing me off… it seemed to be giving me a result that didn’t MEAN anything. Only when I stopped and thought about what a particular letter might represent did I realise my folly!
A short cycle later and the cache was in my hand: it was in the first place I looked. Unfortunately a part of the cache container flew off and attached itself to a hard-to-reach spot on my bike, and it took me a while to put the container back together again! Worse yet, while undoing the damage I’d caused (it’s fine now, by the way) I dropped my pen, which meant that I didn’t have it with me when I reached my next cache stop, GC6HV83 (Easy as 1-2-3), but more on that later.
FP awarded.
This checkin to GLVYGYQ1 Easy as 1-2-3! reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Given that I live very close to this cache (and have done since well before it was placed) I hope you’d forgive me for taking my time to getting around to solving and logging it. Because I was solving GC5R4B3 (Boggling Boolean) today anyway, I thought I’d take a proper look at this for the first time. A quick Google search confirmed my suspicions about what I was looking at and gave me the necessary resources to learn how to read it, and then I was on my way by bike to the general area. I went via GC5R4B3 where I unfortunately left my pen, meaning that I didn’t have it with me when I got to this cache!
Therefore, by way of proof-of-finding, I’ve attached a (non-spoilery) photo of the log from the cache, sitting atop my GPSr whose screen is showing my name and the current date. If CO really wants me to go back up and sign it for-real than I will, but I’ll tell you what: I’m wearing long trousers (or taking a lawnmower) next time!
Lovely cache container in a place I didn’t even know existed; thanks!
Oh, and also: by some counts (this site’s, i.e. ignoring caches logged on other sites) this is my 400th cache. So that’s nice.
This checkin to GLVYAZGY University Challenge 8 (Brmm Brmm) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Visited the old multicache that use to be near here, years ago, and somehow neglected to return to get this virtual when it appeared. Made it, though, earlier this week. (Answers/pic to follow. ) TFTC.
This checkin to GC3MKRH Dogfort v Catfort - Catfort reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
With 6 of the 12 prerequisite caches now archived (after the CO didn’t respond to queries, we’re told), it seems unlikely that anybody’s left who’s both able and willing to find this cache. It was last logged over 5 months ago by a cacher who suspects that they’ll be the last; the previous log was over a year and a quarter before that. Perhaps time to archive?
This checkin to GC3MKRH Dogfort v Catfort - Catfort reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
This geocacher reported that this geocache should be archived. A community volunteer reviewer has been notified.
This checkin to GC4KXPW Mushroom Hair reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
No sign of this tonight. :-(
This checkin to GLVVRZJF Time for a cup of tea and a biscuit reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
We first came a year ago while this cache was missing. Now, on my next trip back to my old haunting grounds, the cache is back in place and we were able to log it. TFTC.
This checkin to OK0022 Copdock Hill reflects an opencache.uk log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
A planned break from my journey from Oxford to Preston gave me the opportunity for a sunset hill climb in this beautiful setting. Almost as if to congratulate me, the second I returned the log to the cache container somebody far to the South West started setting off fireworks (barely audible from this distance, but definitely visible from this altitude!): I must be doing something right! TFTC.
This checkin to OK0372 Mandala reflects an opencache.uk log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
A moment of joy and serenity on my otherwise-uninspiring cycle to work. A wonder I’ve never been down this end of Plantation Road before, given that I’m a fan of the Gardner’s Arms further along it and there are certainly journeys I’ve taken to or from there that would have been just as easy to take via this end of the quaint street.
I tried looking at the mandala image in two different cardinal directions, and saw that it appeared in two different ways. Upright, it seems as though an infinity symbol divided (but you can divide infinity forever and still have an infinity), but rotated 90° it’s more like an hourglass suspended in a rotating frame (and so able to be flipped and started again). Either way, the metaphor to me is one of time.
Thanks for the cache; I hope more people get to find their way to this magical little corner.
This checkin to GC5J655 GO Active Cutteslowe and Sunnymead Park reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
I was in such a great streak this evening but that came to an end here, despite a 20min search of gradually-increasing radius. :-( Maybe next time…
This checkin to GLVVQ0XX Copdock Hill reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
A planned break from my journey from Oxford to Preston gave me the opportunity for a sunset hill climb in this beautiful setting. Almost as if to congratulate me, the second I returned the log to the cache container somebody far to the South West started setting off fireworks (barely audible from this distance, but definitely visible from this altitude!): I must be doing something right! TFTC.