This checkin to GCBMA8X #02 Northmoor Loop - Little Bridges # 3323 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Two for two. The dog watched from below as I reached for this one. Amazing container; love it!
FP awarded for the container alone! TFTC.
This checkin to GCBMA4C #01 Northmoor Loop reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
In the second hiding place I tied, and the evidence suggests I’m not the first to make my mistake. I dipped into this series on release day from the other “side”; now I’ve returned (with my geopup pal) to do more of the loop! TFTC.
This checkin to GCBMAGF #07 Northmoor Loop reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Imagine my surprise when the geohound and I are out for a walk from Appleton to find the Rainbow Bridge cache, to receive a notification of a new cache series at Northmoor. All we need to do is extend our walk a short way, I figure, and we can claim an FTF!
But it was not to be! By the time the little doggo’s legs could carry her this far, we’d been pipped to the post. STF it is, then, after the joint victory just half an hour ahead of us.
And with that, it’s time for the pupper and I to turn around and head back to Appleton. Hopefully we can return to do the rest of this series sometime soon! TFTC.
This checkin to GC8B4J5 Rainbow Bridge reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Our taeget cache got the geopup and I: I’ve coated under this bridge, I think, but never found an excuse to go over it into today.
The doggo is running out of steam and the afternoon looks likely to be too hot for her, but we’ll make a quick run at one of the new Nortmoor Loop series before we turn back. Might even score a FTF!
This checkin to GCBB3J9 Appleton Wharf reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
What a beautiful spot for a geocache, which the geopup and I quickly found in the second host we checked. Then, we enjoyed a delightful few minutes of peace, sitting on the riverbank, before continuing our morning’s adventure.
TFTC, FP awarded for this amazing hidden gem.
This checkin to GCBBDDV To The Thames reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
The geohound wouldn’t let me search as long as I’d have liked, and my GPS must’ve been off because I couldn’t really find anything that matched the hint description. One for another day, perhaps.
This checkin to GC8JWW9 Aslan's Spring reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
The geopup tested the waters while I retrieved the cache. What a wonderful spring on a delightful footpath!
TFTC, and FP for the wonderful location and proper-sized cache container.
This checkin to GCBAZZN The Big Dipper reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
QEF for the geohound and I on a walk around Appleton this morning. Excellent container with a fantastic hint, FP awarded. TFTC!
My “commute” since moving to the Chicory House isn’t much longer than it is at our regular home, but it does involve going outside. Want to see?
The dog is concerned. Why, despite all her warnings, am I still letting these men take all of our (surviving) furniture?
It’s my final day in the cute garden office of the AirBnB we’re living in, this week, and every time I step through the door I catch a glimpse of our small, sandy-coloured dog squatting in the garden.
Except the dog isn’t even here. My brain keeps getting tricked… by this statue of a pig:
This checkin to GC1FNVT SideTracked - Kingham reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
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.
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!
This checkin to GC1ZEKG Church Micro 2809 - Bledington reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
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.
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.
This checkin to GC79ZK3 Wootton Word Wall reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
I’ve never come across the TV series nor this kind of puzzle before, and opted to solve it in an unconventional way. We’re living for a week in an AirBnB nearby – one in a long series of short term lets while we and our insurance company find us sonewhere longer-term, following flood damage to our house last month.
This morning, the younger geokid and I came out for a walk with the geopup. After a little difficulty getting a GPSr fix we eventuality found a good-looking host, and after a few laps we had the well-camouflaged container in our hands. A good sized, well maintained container and an interesting puzzle, even if the way we solved it might be considered by some to have been cheating!
SL (using my own pencil; the one in the cache is blunt and I forgot to bring my sharpener), TFTC.
It’s F-Day plus 35, and I’m spending a few hours working in the habitable part of our flood-damaged house while I’m “between” two AirBnBs.
The dog, who doesn’t normally get to come upstairs, is sitting with me on the landing. Except she also wants to keep an eye on what’s happening downstairs.
The result? Her back legs are sitting and her front legs are standing as she peers blepfully down the stairs.
