Tag: geocaching
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Found GCADM5E Rembrandt park #2
On my way out for pizza with my work colleagues, a quick and easy find in the first place I looked. SL, TFTC!
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Found GCA7Q4A Elephant Parade
Big thanks to the cache owner for their note. Somehow I'd not seen the obvious route. Followed a family of ducks and soon found the cache location. FP awarded in part for the lovely cache but mostly for the attentive CO who posted a note so promptly. TFTC!
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Found GCA1JJ5 Gemaal Mercatorstraat
After failing to find nearby GCA7Q4A "Elephant Parade" owing to construction work, I was hopeful of a find here. The coordinates put me exactly on top of a likely hiding place, and with a little exploration (and some pretending to tie my shoes!) I had the cache in my hand. SL, TFTC. Listened for water pumping but couldn't hear any over the traffic noise, I'm afraid!
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Did not find GCA7Q4A Elephant Parade
Finding the elephant and the numbers was easy. But some construction is happening at the GZ and I couldn't see a safe/permitted way to get close. 😢
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Found GCADMXH Rembrandt park #3
I've recently changed team at work, so my new team and I have gotten together - from the UK, France, Poland, India and South Africa - here in Amsterdam to meet up in person and do some work "together" for a change: normally we work entirely distributed. After our day of work we did an escape room together, then on our way to dinner I dragged them out of their way a bit to find this geocache.
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Found GC7B9CP Platform 9 3/4
This checkin to GC7B9CP Platform 9 3/4 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Even on a Monday morning the muggles are lining up to hold the trolley. Not me. As an actual magician, I've no need for such frivolities. Instead, as I'm passing anyway on my way to a train …
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Found GC1TK6P Narrow Minded
QEF while out hunting for some breakfast this morning between trains on my journey from Oxford to Amsterdam for a work meetup. Lovely thematic cache container in a great spot. FP awarded. TFTC. Hey, this is my 100th post of 2024! Neat!
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Found GCAP4K8 Village Hall Series 1573 - Standlake
This checkin to GCAP4K8 Village Hall Series 1573 - Standlake reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. FTF! Can't remember the last time I got one of those; it's been a while. I woke up this morning thinking about an errand I need to run today that would take me near …
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Found GC2W6AF Babel Fish
This checkin to GC2W6AF Babel Fish reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The younger child and I had an initially fruitless search in, under and around the nearby bridge before we had the sense to insert our babel fishes, after which the hint item became clear to us. A short …
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Found GC51F07 Knapwell one and a half
This checkin to GC51F07 Knapwell one and a half reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The second of two caches found on a morning walk from the nearby Cambridge Belfry Hotel, where some fellow volunteers and I met yesterday for a meeting. This cache looked so close, but being on …
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Found GC10ZT3 Off Yer Trolley! (Cambourne)
This checkin to GC10ZT3 Off Yer Trolley! (Cambourne) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Even early on a Saturday morning, after a volunteering event the previous day at the hotel across the road, this highly-exposed GZ made me feel vulnerable! It's not as though anybody were actually watching me as …
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Found GC8TNPE Incy Wincy
The elder child and I are staying nearby and couldn't resist coming to a nearby cache with so many FPs. The name gave us a bit of a clue what we would be looking for but nothing could have prepared us for for this imaginative and unusual container!
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My Geo*ing Limits
Let's use some self-data-mining plus a convex hull algorithm to plot a convex polygon onto a map that optimally encircles the entire corpus of my successful geocaching/geohashing expeditions!
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Quickly Solving JigsawExplorer Puzzles
A fellow jigsaw-hating geocacher, familiar with my work on Jigidi, challenged me to find a way to bypass JigsawExplorer too. Here's what I came up with...
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Found GC2BHX9 C-130J Hercules
This checkin to GC2BHX9 C-130J Hercules reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found by the geohound and I after a brief battle with the first stinging nettles of the season. Owie! She and I came over from Stanton Harcourt this morning - from which we see plenty of Brize Nortons' …