Dan Q

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Dan Q found GCBN167 Ivy Believe It’s Up There!

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This afternoon I’m acting as backup driver for my partner Ruth, who’s walking the length of the Thames Path by (very gradual) instalments. Having parked at Culham Lock I began to walk back towards Abingdon to meet the walking team coming the other way, when I noticed that a new cache had been published nearby and diverted to find it.

Dan hangs from a tree; a cache container is barely visible in the background.

A delightful tree climb later and I had this great cache container in hand. TFTC, FP awarded!

A geocache container, open, in a tree.

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Dan Q found GC1FNVT SideTracked – Kingham

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Found successfully on an Easter morning dog walk from Bledington. The geopup and I came out across the fields, trying to get outdoors early before the rain that’s forecast for later in the day (though personally I’m sceptical that today’s weather will be anything short of glorious). The walk was delightful, although we unfortunately arrived right before a train was due and so there were many muggles waiting nearby to collect their arriving loved ones.

Fortunately the nature of the GZ provides a perfect excuse to be sitting around, and so I soon began my search. An initial lying-on-the-floor visual survey didn’t help, nor did a fingertip search through what I figured were the obvious spots. This, coupled with the lack of any logs yet this year and the fact that the last log was a DNF, might have given me cause to worry. But a deeper dive through the past logs indicated that perhaps this cache is just… hard!… and so I continued on.

Dan sits in a glass bus shelter, hugging a French Bulldog.

The next trick in my caching toolbox was my phone. Switched to selfie mode and recording a video, I swept it slowly and methodically through all of the hiding spots I could think of. Watching the video back (while offering my patient pup scritches with my spare hand), I caught I glimpse of something: a flash of metal of an unexpected colour! Now I knew it was there! I renewed my search with fingertips focused on the spot I’d identified: an unusual area for this kind of cache, perhaps, but easy to find once you’re sure where to look!

Soon the cache was, at last, in hand. Careful patience, logical elimination, and a determination not to give up were the keys, here. TFTC!

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Dan Q found GC1ZEKG Church Micro 2809 – Bledington

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QEF for the geohound and I as we came out for a walk from the house we’re borrowing this week – the latest of many AirBnB-like week-long lets we’ve had to decamp to after our house was rendered uninhabitable by a flash flood around fifty days ago. Hopefully the last, though, as the insurance company may at last have found us somewhere to live longer-term while our house is repaired!

Cache container seemed slightly exposed by damage to a nearby fence so I tucked it back in slightly deeper than I found it.

Dan crouches on a footpath running alongside a field, next to a French Bulldog.

TFTC and for showing us this delightful footpath which is sure to become a favourite walking route for the doggo and I during our week here.

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Dan Q found GCARTHE Rope Swing

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Found without difficulty while the geokid amused himself on the swing. Shame about the litter near the GZ, may be a CITO opportunity up here! Loving the views: think I can see our accommodation from here! TFTC and for showing us this rope swing!

A boy hangs from a rope swing over a grassy hillside.

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Dan Q did not find GCARTJD 5Gee, Under the Oak Tree

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After hearing of my failure to find this cache the other day, the younger geokid persuaded me to come back and try again. We poked into every hidey-hole we could find and even extended our search to the next candidate oak tree (just in case the coordinates were off), but still had no success despite an extended search.

Dan Q found GCARTJ6 The Pylon King

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It took the geokid and I a moment or two to work out why this pylon was king, but once we had it was easy to find this (good-sized) cache. What a delightful Spring afternoon it was! And then the geokid found a tree under which the banks had eroded, making a perfect “hobbit hole” cave within its exposed roots (where he ate his ice cream).

Under the gnarly roots of a large tree, a small boy eats a Cornetto.

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Dan Q found GCARTJB Stop, Look… er… Listen?

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I’m volunteering at the building right next door to this bridge, this week, working on software that helps charities… among them, Samaritans! So finding this thematic cache was a must-do for the younger geokid and I on our lunch break today. A quick and easy find thanks to the clear telegraphing in the description, aided by our direction of approach. It’s a wonderful large bridge, and we got to watch a train zoom along the tracks beneath us as we crossed.

Dan and a small child throw a thumbs-up to the camera from atop a brick bridge.

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