Dan Q found GC340FP Sanders

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I managed to log most of the local geocaches during last year’s Fairport by getting up early each morning (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), while the other revellers were still nursing their hangovers, but I wasn’t able to retrieve this muddle-laden one. This year I had better luck and the kids, dog and I soon had it in hand. SL, TNLN, TFTC!

Photograph showing Dan, wearing a "go both ways" t-shirt and a rainbow-striped bandana and grey shorts, sits between a 6-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl (the girl is wearing a Pikachu hat).

Photograph showing Dan, wearing a "go both ways" t-shirt and a rainbow-striped bandana and grey shorts, sits between a 6-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl (the girl is wearing a Pikachu hat).×

Dan Q found GCXWEX Villa View

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Found with Ruth after coming out to explore the spectacular Roman villa. We’d supposed to have been out of the Isle of Man celebrating our anniversary, but our ‘plane got cancelled, so we’ve opted for staying at home and doing local cycling expeditions instead. SL, TFTC.

Dan Q found GC3742 SP9

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Well this was a challenge! The woods threw off my GPS, but I’d brought a backup device so I averaged between them and found a likely GZ. The dog and I did an increasingly large spiral, checking all the obvious hiding spots, to no avail. Returning to our start point we began another pass, and something caught my eye! It was the cache!

A few things had made it challenging:

  • I put the coordinates 13m from where the CO does. Could be the woods, but I’m not the first to say about this distance.
  • This cache is by no means a “regular”. It’s not even a “small”. It would fit inside a 35mm film canister, which in my mind makes it clearly a “micro”!
  • It wasn’t in the hiding place indicated by the hint! I found in on the ground, beneath leaf litter, with thanks to my energetic leaf-kicking geohound!

Signed log and returned cache to the nearest hiding spot that fits the hint, hopefully others will find it more easily than we did! TFTC from Demmy the Dog and I!

Dan crouches in a forest; a French Bulldog is stretching up to lick his arm.

Dan crouches in a forest; a French Bulldog is stretching up to lick his arm.×

Dan Q performed maintenance for GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing

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Maintenance check while walking the dog. Cleared some overgrown plants, but watch out because the nearby nettles ate still a little fierce (cache can be retrieved without a sting though!). Cache itself intact and healthy.

Dan Q found GC5KBK3 ISAP: Omonia

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Found! Took a bit of a search, because I had looked at the hint image which shows several trees at the GZ that are no longer there, so I was left thinking I must be in the wrong place for a while! TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK!

Dan, wearing a purple shirt with a WordPress logo and a pride rainbow, waves to the camera in front of a hotel with pride rainbow banners hanging from its pillars.

Dan, wearing a purple shirt with a WordPress logo and a pride rainbow, waves to the camera in front of a hotel with pride rainbow banners hanging from its pillars.×

Dan Q found GC1B0P5 The Runner

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What a great statue! Cache was very easy to find; despite its camo it was very visible as I walked along the adjacent path. Thanks for bringing me out of my way on my walk from my hotel to the conference I’m attending, and TFTC. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK!

Dan, in a green park with water fountains, waves at the camera.

Dan, in a green park with water fountains, waves at the camera.×

Dan Q found GC97N64 Under the Bridge

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Walking from my hotel to the site of a conference I’m attending, this morning, I stopped to find this cache. It took an embarrassingly long time for me to spot this sneaky little container! Greetings from Oxford, UK, and TFTC!

Dan, wearing a black t-shirt and a backpack, holds a tiny plastic container with a red lid. Behind him is a rough rock wall.

Dan, wearing a black t-shirt and a backpack, holds a tiny plastic container with a red lid. Behind him is a rough rock wall.×

Dan Q found GC9WD6N Peter’s

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Saw the notification when this cache appeared near my house, which would normally be the point at which a race was kicked off between me and Go Catch for the FTF, before he inevitably got there first!

But this time around I was overseas when the listing went live and only found time to cycle out here from Stanton Harcourt this evening, after work. I’d visited the church here once before in service of the nearby multi, but it was nice to see a different side of it as well as an excellent hiding place.

TFTC!

Dan, wearing a cycle helmet, stands in front of a church steeple under a bright blue sky, waving.

Dan, wearing a cycle helmet, stands in front of a church steeple under a bright blue sky, waving.×

Dan Q found GC7FB9H From Canterbury to the cache

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Well that was quite the adventure!

The first wayoint is right across the road from where some work colleagues and I are staying for an “away week”. I decided to dash out during a break in the weather to try and solve this multi between meetings. But I was quickly confused because… this isn’t the way I was taught to do Roman numerals. I’d always been told that you should never have four of the same letter in a row, e.g. you should say XIV, not XIIII. Once I’d worked out what I was doing wrong, though, I was okay!

The second and third waypoints had me braving some frankly scary roads. The drivers here just don’t seem to stop unless you’re super assertive when you step out!

Once I had the final numbers and ran it through geochecker I realised that the cache must be very close to where I’d had lunch earlier today! Once I got there it took me a while to get to the right floor, after which the hint made things pretty obvious.

Great trail, really loved it. And just barely made it back before the rain really started hammering down. TFTC, FP awarded, and greetings from Oxford, UK!

Dan holding an orange mint tin in a city centre.

Dan holding an orange mint tin in a city centre.×

Dan Q found GC9QCKH When in Rome live as the Romans do (bb Tribute 05)

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Took until the fourth hiding place before I found the cache. Out for a walk with work colleagues on the way to dinner. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK!

Alongside the River Tiber, with a wide-arched stone bridge in the background, Dan sits on a wall and waves to the camera.

Alongside the River Tiber, with a wide-arched stone bridge in the background, Dan sits on a wall and waves to the camera.×

Dan Q found GC8B4CH Is 14 Your Lucky Number Yet?

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Easy find while out for a ride, breaking in my new bike. Great ride, aside from the mayflies, which I must’ve ingested about a million of! As others have observed, the logbook has soaked to the point of disintegration and could do with replacement. Thanks though for a cache I’ve probably driven, walked out cycled past a hundred times before actually stopping to find it.

Dan, wearing a white cycle helmet and a worn block t-shirt, waves to the camera while sitting on a bench. Alongside him can be seen the racing/road-bike style handlebars of a bike.

Dan, wearing a white cycle helmet and a worn block t-shirt, waves to the camera while sitting on a bench. Alongside him can be seen the racing/road-bike style handlebars of a bike.×

Dan Q found GC5F425 Lovers Walk

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My GPSr dropped me next to a far older bit of architecture than the one that hosts the cache, but found after a short search. I’m staying nearby as part of a charity hackathon for a nonprofit I’m involved with, but came out for a walk and an explore while between other tasks. SL, TFTC.

Dan Q found GC8A40R Brockholes Stone Circle

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Found with the elder geokid plus my mother and sister while on a layover in Preston to break up our journey from Aviemore to Oxford. We’re getting to visit quite a few some circles this half term, both old and new plus some old-but-restored, many of which have earthcache or virtual caches!

Thanks for the geology lessons and the interesting location. Answers sent already, FP awarded, TFTC.

In a grassy field, a 9-year-old girl in a bright coat, accompanied by two women, examines a standing rock at the edge of a small stone circle.

Dan and his mother stand in a stone circle, their arms spread wide and smiles on their faces.

In a grassy field, a 9-year-old girl in a bright coat, accompanied by two women, examines a standing rock at the edge of a small stone circle.× Dan and his mother stand in a stone circle, their arms spread wide and smiles on their faces.×

Dan Q found GC6CTKF Cache Wars – Han Solo

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Travelling down from Aviemore to Preston on a multi-stage journey back home to Oxfordshire, we stopped off at the visitor centre and took the tour of the wind farm. My 6 year old loves wind turbines and was really excited to see so many in one place and to get the opportunity to give one (turbine #42) a hug (pictured)!

The tour complete, I took a quick jog back to turbine #40 to find this geocache. As others have noted, it’s in bad nick – no container and damp log – but I was (barely) able to sign it.

TFTC in this awesome spot.

A smiling boy and girl in brightly-coloured coats hug the bottom of a very large wind turbine stem.

A smiling boy and girl in brightly-coloured coats hug the bottom of a very large wind turbine stem.×