Tag: geocaching
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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' …
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Did not find GC6Q3A1 Cur.Bri.Lew 11
This checkin to GC6Q3A1 Cur.Bri.Lew 11 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The pup and I unearthed a few likely hiding places without success here. Not sure what we've missed: feels like we lifted every hint item in the vicinity!
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Found GC6Q39R Cur.Bri.Lew 10
This checkin to GC6Q39R Cur.Bri.Lew 10 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF for the geopup and I on this strangely springlike morning. Cache container is damaged almost beyond recognition, as others have observed, and is desperately in need of replacement. TFTC.
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Found GCADXC6 Tour de France
This checkin to GCADXC6 Tour de France reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My very first "ski-o-cache" was 9 years ago, down in La Tania: this was my second! Found the host easily at the coordinates and found the cache in the third hiding place I tried. It's quite stiff …
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Found GC82XT0 Cumnor Minions - Dr Nefario
This checkin to GC82XT0 Cumnor Minions - Dr Nefario reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found after trying a few different hosts while out on an expedition to try and reach the 2024-02-10 51 -1 geohashpoint with the 7-year-old and the dog. The path to the hashpoint is really waterlogged …
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Found GC8X86T Crawley to Minster Loop - #5 Mirach
This checkin to GC8X86T Crawley to Minster Loop - #5 Mirach reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A second find this morning for the boy, the geopup and I this morning. The hound was no use; she had her nose right up against the cache at one point and gave …
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Found GC8X86E Crawley to Minster Loop - #4 Gacrux
This checkin to GC8X86E Crawley to Minster Loop - #4 Gacrux reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Out for a dog walk with the younger child (and the dog, of course!). We've come to the nearby ruins many times before but never taken the time to do some caching here, …
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Temporarily disabled GC9EXXX Church Micro 14129...Sutton
This checkin to GC9EXXX Church Micro 14129...Sutton reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Cache removed and temporarily disabled. The council have just started installing new signage to advise of a new 20mph speed limit around here. 🎉
When they recently did the same in a nearby village, they removed …