Dan Q

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Dan Q found GC8D4H7 Benvinguts a Vistabella.

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I had to work hard to find this one! In the end, my selfie-csmers helped me a lot, but what also helped was that I’ve seen (and hidden) containers of this type before. SL, TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK!

Brick church steeple.
I wouldn’t see it until a little later, but I really enjoyed the church at Vistabella.
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Dan Q found GC5QRR1 RAPOEB 35 fase llarga.

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I startled a lizard while retrieving this good-sized cache. My trouser legs are now covered with burrs, from all the sticky plants underfoot. TFTC, and for this leg of the series; now it’s time to explore Vistabella!

Dan Q found GC5QGGQ RAPOEB 33 fase llarga.

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Another quick and easy find on this delightful trail. TFTC.

My original plan had been to turn around at this point and head back to La Secuita, but two things have changed my mind: 1. How great this cache series is, and 2. The curious shape of the steeple ahead in Vistabella. So I think I’ll walk on a little further before I head back to where I parked in La Secuita!

Brick church steeple.
I took this picture of the church at Vistabella later, once I got there.
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Dan Q found GC5QGG3 RAPOEB 31 fase llarga.

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I walked down the path from La Secuita to #30 but was unable to attempt it while a man and his dog were loitering there. So I pressed on to #31, and quickly found it. The cache container must be very attractive to snails, because they were mobbing it! TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK!

Dan throws a 'thumbs up' to the camera.

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Dan Q found GC6PF76 Benvinguts a la Secuita. La piscina.

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Great cache, excellent container and hiding spot! After feeling around a few other places I soon worked out what I was looking for, and stealthily stretched to retrieve the cache. Two nearby men in a van and a lady walking her dog meant that I had to sit around and wait for a long time to return the cache to its hiding place, though! I’m glad I came early in the morning; the required stealth must become impossible later in the day.

Really cool cache, thanks for setting. FP awarded. SL, TFTC/GPA. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK!

Dan Q did not find GC65QKN Benvinguts a Mas vilet dels pins

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I spent a while looking at the obvious host, then checked the hint and moved to a series of alternate candidates. It’s probably there, but not somewhere I could find! Eventually I felt too hot and too visible to passers-by and decided to quit. Maybe another time!

Dan Q found GC8ZYPV AMAGATALL MAS CARGOL – Camps

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I’ve been doing what remains of the Ruta Pels Volants del Mars De Salort series of took a diversion to find this cache. The impressive host didn’t need a hint – she’s pretty easy to find!

The cache container is absolutely excellent. Amazing camouflage! It’s a shame this is my 1001st find and not my 1000th because I’d have loved to make this great container my milestone! FP awarded.

Dan waves in a bright forest.

Signed log and returned to its hiding place. TFTC/GPA, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK!

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Dan Q found GC6QV1F #17 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT

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A quick and easy find in a now-familiar hide and container format.

And while perhaps not as memorable as my walk through the abandoned olive groves to find the damaged cache GC6QTTM therein, this find was memorable fire a different reason: it’s my 1000th cache found!1

Dan with his arms raised in celebration, alongside the superimposed words '1000th find'.

Struck a pose for a victory selfie to celebrate. FP awarded for the memories.

Footnotes

1 GCCOM might disagree with because it won’t count my finds on other geocaching platforms, but my record at danq.me/geo/stats is canonical.

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Dan Q found GC6QTTM #5 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT

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It’s increasingly looking like this series might be in need of some love and attention. With numbers 3 and 4 completely absent and a nearly two year gap since 5 was last logged – coupled with my bad luck so far this morning – I wasn’t optimistic of a find here.

I enjoyed the walk, though. This long-abandoned, now feral, olive grove is tranquil and calm. And when I got to the GZ, I was delighted to see the “top” of a cache container, exactly matching one seen elsewhere in the logs, protruding from under a rock. Hurrah!

A bottle top style lid, with Dan's name written in it, sits alongside some plastic shards on top of a rock.

Unfortunately, that’s almost all that’s left of the container. I collected it up onto its host rock, along with several shards of what were once its body: a sort-of memorial to itself. Then I wrote the date and my name on the inside of the lid, declared this the closest possible thing to a “find”, under the circumstances, and left my little shrine alone. Will it ever be found again? I don’t know.

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