Dan Q found GC45BDD Mirador La Paz

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My partner Ruth and I are staying at the Meliá hotel down in the city, from which amazingly I was able to get a WiFi connection despite the considerable distance!

Dan and Ruth stand on an overlook, pointing at a seaside Meliá hotel in the distant city below.

As others have observed, the hint is misleading for this cache. Substitute the word “right” in place of the word “left” and the hint makes more sense!

SL, TFTC! And thanks for the great view!

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Dan Q did not find GC1PYFN Parque Taoro

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Ruth and I made several attempts today without success: a muggle was sat nearby in such a way that access to the GZ was obstructed. We took a walk to the nearby Anglican church – whose architecture, if you ignore the volcanic rock, is uncannily like that of Anglican churches in the UK – but then we returned the muggle had very much set up camp and was going nowhere. We attempted to find a way to the cache from the opposite side without luck, and eventually had to give up. 😔

Dan Q found GC9MCDM The Queen Of Mystery

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After solving the riddle yesterday, my partner Ruth and I came up from the seafront to find this cache today. What a delightful spot to hide the cache, and what a wonderful puzzle (and spot of local literary history) with which to bring us here.

Dan leans against a wall in a tropical park, writing on a log sheet.

SL, FP awarded. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK. TFTC!

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Dan Q found GC9PVXZ EL CRÁTER DE LA RAMBLETA

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My partner Ruth and I were disappointed not to be able to hike any of the trails up here today – they’re all closed – but enjoyed finding both the nearby Virtual and this Earthcache geocaches. The evidence of lava flows (that remain to this day!) are really quite impressive.

Dan stands by an information board in front of a broad volcanic crater.

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Dan Q found GC8YPVJ Finn1

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Last time I was caching up this neck of the woods was December 2018 (GLXJJWGN, GLXJJX7P). And despite the fact that I was staying in different accommodation, in a different month of the year, I was still in the vicinity for the exact same reason: attending the Christmas party of my nonprofit.

By longstanding tradition, I get up early in the morning at these kinds of events – well before sunrise, at this point in the year! – for a quick walk to a nearby geocache, which today meant this one! To make my hunt in the dark easier I scoped the GZ on Google Street View first and caught sight of a likely hiding spot which later turned it to be exactly right!

Dan, in the dark, stands in front of a number of road closure signs on a rural road.
Upon reaching the area I soon saw that the road ahead was closed (for HS2 works, I suppose!), but this was no impediment to the cache.

It was soon found – the coordinates aren’t great but the hint sent me right to the object I’d scouted earlier – but extraction was challenging – I needed to manufacture a tool from nearby dead wood with which to pry it from its hiding place!

TFTC.

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Dan Q found GC47WME PYVW- Cuckoo Wood

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I was in these woods anyway, seeking GC10N80 (which, incidentally, is one of the best geocaches I’ve ever logged and well worth the attention of anybody ‘caching in this part if the world) and figured I’d come hunt for this cache too.

A quick find; my geosense spotted a candidate hiding place right from the main path, and I turned out to be right.

Cache contents are in somewhat poor condition: logbook has soaked and dried again into a slab of papier-mache and was challenging to sign!

TFTC!

Dan Q found GC10N80 Wye Eye

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I’m on a family holiday, staying over in Catbrook, and I have a holiday tradition of getting up early (before the kids are up!) to come out on geocaching jaunts.

I very nearly didn’t consider this at all. It’s fake location, nestled amongst challenge caches (which I have no interest in whatsoever), made me initially suspect it would be another of the same. It’s only a lucky coincidence I clicked on it at all!

(Maybe that’s why this cache had no finds in 2025? Such a shame!)

But I’m glad I did. I puzzled over the riddle for a little while before the “odd line out” made me think of something. So confident was I in the resulting coordinates that I didn’t even visit the special web page to double-check, which meant I missed out on the object hint until I was in the field and needed one! This, in turn, was pretty satisfying!

I saved this cache for my second morning’s outing: free one on which I didn’t bring the dog (for whose little legs this hike might have been too intense). This was the right choice. I had to ford a flooded and frozen path by moonlight near Cleddon before a visit to the waterfalls (and the associated cache) then pressed on up into the woods to uncover this cache, which has sat alone and undisturbed for, what… 20 months?

Sun rising over a hill beyond a broad valley full of frozen fields.
The view from near the GZ is fantastic.

It’s in fine condition and in an absolutely postcard-perfect spot. The sun was at long last creating the hills on the far side of the valley as I signed my name and returned the box to its hiding spot. I really regret that this cache doesn’t see more footfall, and I hope that this effusive log (and the accompanying Favourite Point) might go some way to helping rectify that situation!

TFTC. It’s one of the best I’ve ever found. If I could award it two FPs I would!

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Dan Q found GC39NPC Cleddon shoots and falls

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Hiked over from Catbrook on the way to a cache up Pen Y Fan and stopped by these beautiful waterfalls on the way. So glad I did! I’d originally planned to seek this cache on my return journey but I’ve got to say: it looked extra spectacular by the light of the full supermoon.

And as a bonus(?) I spent long enough hunting for the cache that I got to see it in daylight too!

The primary problem came from the fact that the path that the cache is nearest… is closed! Apparently a tree has fallen somewhere and rendered it unsafe, though that’s probably a long way from where the cache is hidden.

The secondary problem was that I didn’t read the sign. I just saw the fence, assumed that what I was looking at wasn’t the (closed) path but something completely out of bounds, and focused my search exclusively elsewhere. My GPSr had been fritzy all morning, so being “out” by 10-15m didn’t seem like a big deal.

It was only when I was considering returning during daylight hours that I stopped to read the sign and realised where the hinted path was: it’d been right in front of me the whole time! I quickly skirted the blockade and found the cache, then took the time – having already bypassed the fence – to snap a happy selfie by the falls in the early light.

Dan, smiling and wearing a thick black hoodie and a furry hat, stands in front of a waterfall that pours into a frozen valley behind him.

Awesome adventure to a fabulous spot. FP awarded!

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Dan Q found GC7P0AN A Fine Pair # 1089 ~ Parkhouse

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The geohound and I walked over from Catbrook this morning “the long way” – over the hill and woods, finding a couple of caches along the way – to this cache.

From both the cache type and my GPSr’s map data I fully expected to find a post box here alongside the (decrepit) red phone box, but it’s nowhere to be seen! Has it perhaps been removed?

Dan, a white man with blue hair, looks confused alongside a French Bulldog, in front of a red telephone box.
The dog and I spent a little while looking for the promised postbox, without success.

In any case, the hint reassured me that I was in the right place and my geosense told me where to look. A disappointingly tiny cache container (where a larger one could have probably been placed) was soon found, caked in mud, and replaced as-found.

TFTC.

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Dan Q found GC2DJ9K The Wolf Cache

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The geopup and I absolutely chose the right time to come up here on this wintery morning. The sun’s ascent over the valley whenever we escape the cover of the woods is absolutely spectacular.

Early morning light over wintery fields and between the branches of bare trees.

Found without difficulty SL, TFTC!

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Dan Q found GC2EFAW The Cairn Cache

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Happy New Year! The geopup and I, on holiday from West Oxfordshire and staying nearby, came out for a morning walk in the ice and snow today.

Our little Frenchie’s tiny legs made the work of climbing the stiles on this path a little challenging, but with persistence we were treated to a wonderful view of the sun broaching the horizon over the valley at the North end of School Wood.

The sun peeks through clouds at the horizon beyond a wide valley full of fields.

Soon the cairn was in sight, and what a brilliant spot for a cache! Signed log, and dropped a travel bug that’s come all the way from Texas to continue its journey. FP awarded for bringing us out this way.

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Dan Q found GC2BJTQ Noah’s Cache

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Came out for a walk with my Ruth and the kids. While Ruth sat on a rock and the kids went with their uncle up to explore a small cave above, I broke from the path to find this cache. QEF in the second host I looked at.

Annotated photo of Dan, a white man with blue hair, on a brackeney Lake District hillside, with arrows in the background identifying the location of 'fleeblewidget' and 'the kids'.

Took travel bug to move along, signed log, then went to retrieve the kids. TFTC.

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