Dan Q

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Dan Q found GC1QR0V Church Micro 605 Almondsbury

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Stopped at the pub nearby for an incredibly late lunch and to recharge the electric car on my journey from Pembrokeshire to Oxfordshire, because I’d much rather get off the motorway and find somewhere nice to sit while the electrons do their thing. Spotted this nearby cache in the yard of this beautiful church, which made for a lovely walk as the well-tended flowerbeds were wonderfully fragrant. Followed a geotrail to find the cache. Amazing, loved finding this so much. SL, TNLN, TFTC, FP awarded.

A black and white cat stands on flagstones before a wooden gate.
Also got to meet the church cat.
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Dan Q found GC9FHDP Kiln-ing me softly

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The geopup and I took a walk from the Parrog to Newport Sands and back, this morning, and I’m glad we opted to find geocaches on the way back, rather than the way out, because it made this particular cache extraordinarily easy. The rocks that ought to have concealed it were absent and I was able to make out the familiar shape of this kind of container from the path, no searching required!

The remains of a stone kiln, a gravel path running alongside it, alongside a river estuary.
Had I approached from this direction, I might still be searching.

Returning it to its spot, I attempted to reconceal it with the help of some nearby slabs if slate. But given how much of an obvious magnet to playful children this entire structure is (I’m pretty sure mine had a go at dismantling it on a previous visit, predating this cache, circa 2019!) I’m not sure how long it’ll remain!

TFTC. Great to walk this path once more!

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Dan Q found GC5JRP3 T’drath #3

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I tried to find this cache back in 2016 without success. I’m confident I’d have looked in the place it’s now hidden – which was today basically the first place I looked! – so maybe fast previous visit was during one of the cache’s periods of absencennIn any case, I returned today and brought my faithful geohound on a morning walk from Parrog to Newport Sands and back, finding this cache on our return leg. She wasn’t much help, but fortunately I didn’t need her to be! TFTC.

Dan crouches on a path, flanked by tall grass. Behind him, a French Bulldog yawns, her mouth wide and her tongue out.

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Dan Q found GCB4434 A Road Anarchy – A40 TB Hotel

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On a diversion from my cycle from Witney to Eynsham I came along the A40 cyclepath to find this cache. And what a cache! An excellent container perfectly suited to it’s hiding place. SL, TNLN, FP awarded for a large and well maintained container, TFTC.

Leaning hard into his handlebars, Dan cycles up to the top of a rural hill.

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Dan Q found GCAARWW Green All Around

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After cycling into Witney on an errand, put a slight diversion in my return route to find this cache. Didn’t see anything at the coordinates so hit the hint, and there’s been enough fresh green growth here that effect even then it took me a while to find the hint object! It probably used to be more visible! Once I’d found it (a few metres North if the GZ) the cache was found soon after. TFTC.

At a suburban junction between two residential streets, near a small green space, Dan waves as he leans against his bicycle.

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Dan Q found GC2MTTV Power to the People

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Not too busy here this morning so I was able to mount a proper search for the cache. No sign of the container, so providing a photo log in accordance with CO’s instructions. TFTC.

Dan stretches high to touch the back of a sign mounted on a pole, alongside tram signals, in a city centre.

My GPSr puts the hint item about 9m South of the posted coordinates, with strong signal, BTW.

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Dan Q found GC84F1A Manchester Central Library

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What a truly spectacular cache. FP awarded, without hesitation. I’ve seen a similar kind in a library before but never with such depth, such a story, so voluminous a container, nor – let’s be honest – so beautiful a building!

The Wolfson room was packed, presumably with people studying for their upcoming exams, but I found a seat there to work out the final location. Once there, I made my way up and found it without difficulty. No trouble with the numbers from me.

Sitting in a traditionally-decorated circular reading room, Dan writes in a notepad.

I’m going to try to tag one or two more Manchester caches before I catch my train home, but I can’t imagine any will hold a candle to this. TFTC!

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Dan Q found GC5C8N2 Church Micro 6331…Manchester – St Ann’s

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I’m in Manchester for the day for a social gathering related to a variety of the volunteering activities I’ve been involved with over the last, OMG-I’m-so-old, 26 years or so. After my train arrived I meandered via OK04B5 (nice to see the OC community alive and well here in Manchester!) to find myself some lunch, then dropped by this cache on my way to our event venue.

The location was spot on and I saw the cache rightaway, but needed to wait for a couple of Deliveroo drivers to finish chatting and leave before I could get to the container itself. Soon in hand, though. TFTC!

Under a shady tree and in front of a church, Dan throws a thumbs-up.

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Dan Q found OK04B5 The Beacon of Hope

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I’m in Manchester for a volunteering-adjacent social event and, not often seeing OpenCaches pop up on my radar, visited this spot on my way from the station to the venue. So beautiful to see Manchester acknowledge its part in queer history, and a beautiful memorial to everybody who has died as a result of the AIDS pandemic. TFTC!

Dan, wearing a pride rainbow t-shirt, stands alongside a steel beacon in the corner of an urban park, under bright late-spring sunlight.

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Dan Q found GCA2025 Where’s 25? – Locationless Cache

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Happy 25th birthday, geocaching.

I’m spending the weekend volunteering for a nonprofit I founded (it’s almost as old as geocaching, at 23). We’re staying in a hotel at N 52° 36.184′ W 001° 53.869′. I’ve also gotten out to find a couple of local geocaches.

But guess which room number the hotel have given me…

Dan looks shocked as he stands in front of a wooden door on which a brass plaque reads 'Welcome to Fairlawns 25'.

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Dan Q found GC7H5M9 Hedge your bets

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Found following a short hunt and a brief rummage after walking up the nearby footpath, with the help of a previous log which talked about crossing a fence (which I didn’t need to do, having come up the correct way in the first place).

Some fellow volunteers and I are meeting at a hotel to the West of here for a weekend of making software to help charities. When we meet up, I have a tradition of getting up early and finding a geocache or two before breakfast. Having exhausted the very-local supply of caches on previous visits, and not wishing to miss out on the tradition on this, geocaching’s 25th birthday, I decided it was time to come further afield (and to finally solve this puzzle!… I’m still stumped by its sibling, though!).

Nice container. Log slightly damp, but still usable. TFTC, and FP awarded for the enjoyable (once I spotted a pattern!) puzzle.