Dan Q

Tag: geocaching

Dan Q found GC6TKBN MALIP – Monument a les il·lusions perdudes

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After failing to find this yesterday, I came back earlier this morning for another go. Thanks to the hint, I was pretty confident I’d been looking in the right place, and a message from the CO helped confirm this (gracias!).

There are, in my mind, two significant challenges to this cache:

1. It’s a challenging and unusual hiding place and you will need to use the hint. I see from previous logs that some people used the hint… and still got stuck! Got to look around and see what it could mean. This bit… I got right. In fact, I touched the cache yesterday but just didn’t know it for sure!

2. It’s a busy area in which searching for a geocache… looks a bit suspicious! I came at almost 08:00 yesterday and, probably because it was a weekday, the area had lots of muggles. I felt self-conscious hunting for the cache and that made it harder. Coming back today an hour earlier made all the difference.

A really sneaky cache good enough to hunt for twice. TFTC/GPC. FP awarded. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK.

Dan, on a pre-dawn city street, smugly shows the front cover of a little-finger-sized geocaching logbook.

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Dan Q did not find GC6TKBN MALIP – Monument a les il·lusions perdudes

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An extended search bore no fruit this morning. Worth help of the hint and an initial survey I was pretty confident in what kind of thing I was looking for, but though i inspected many candidate hiding places I couldn’t quite find it. Perhaps I’d do better at a less-busy time.

Dan Q found GCARWF7 Antigua Fábrica de Tallada i Lora

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Visiting from Oxford, UK, I woke up early this morning and decided to come out for an explore before my partner and the children got up. A walk through the park brought me to this delightful piece of industrial history! With the hint, the cache was soon in hand and the log signed. GPC!

Dan points at an old brick chimney, standing alone among modern glass office buildings.

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Dan Q undefined GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing

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Noticed while on a dog walk that the container looked a little loose, so came by to tighten it up. Noticed that the logbook was missing – muggled? – so replaced that while I was here. Ready to go!

Dan, sitting in a car, holding a screwdriver and smiling.
A screwdriver isn’t a usual piece of CO toolkit.
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Dan Q found GC3WYMN Tactically Clever Placing

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I solved this puzzle ages ago but when I came to find it the GZ was so full of dubious and disgusting litter that I didn’t want to go poking around.

I decided to return today for a fresh search, figuring that the recent rains might’ve made it a more pleasant place to explore. I soon found the logbook, loose and damp, sitting alone on the floor. No sign of the cache container, whatever it once was. SL, and tried to return the book to a sheltered spot in its hiding place as well as possible but this is urgently in need of CO attention.

Damp geocaching log book,closed.

Damp geocaching log book,open.

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Dan Q found GC9XJDB WLMCP #2E Bridge The Gap

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A quick and easy cache-and-dash in-between errands. I’ve got gardening gloves; I’ve got supplies to make brunch… and I’ve got ten minutes spare, so I came to find this cache.

Container might enjoy some camo tape or something if it’s not to be mistaken for litter! TFTC.

Dan, sitting on a bridge edge near a wooded stream, waves to the camera.

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Dan Q found GC4MHJ0 Octo (MK Artwalks)

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Today’s the last of three consecutive days that I’ve spent working in Milton Keynes. On each day I’ve taken a short walk while I’ve eaten my lunch to find a nearby geocache. This was today’s.

After admiring the sculpture I snapped a selfie while I waited for my GPS signal to settle. The coordinates and the hint made the location seem obvious, yet somehow I did three laps of the hiding place before I reached down to what by all accounts was, indeed, an obvious hiding place!

Muggles weren’t too multitudinous, so I soon had the cache hidden again back in its snug little spot. TFTC!

Dan poses for a selfie in front of a figure-8/moebius strip sculpture, on a sunny day.

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Dan Q found GC2GR3Z The Brass Bands of MK – Secklow Brass

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I’ve been working in Milton Keynes the tail end of this week while my kids attend a ski camp at the X-scape centre. While eating my lunch today I came out for a walk to find this geocache.

Approaching from the direction of the car park was definitely the right route and I was soon standing at GZ alongside a likely host. I had to search for some time, though, before I found this surprisingly we’ll-concealed cache.

(I was hindered perhaps by my own eagerness to check the hint, which left me searching several feet lower down than the container eventually turned out to be!)

Right, back to work for me! TFTC.

Dan Q found GC4NX9Y Light Pyramid (MK Artwalks)

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Found the host easily, but had to wait for a gap in thir lunchtime dog walkers to be able to mount a good search. After checking in a few obvious places I picked something up and there was the cache!

Took a walk up to the Light Pyramid where I snapped the attached photo of me pointing towards the X-Scape centre, where I’ve been working today (my kids have ski lessons, so I’ve been sitting in the cafe with my laptop with the exception of this, my lunch break!).

On which note, I’d better go find myself a sandwich! Thanks for bringing me up here, and TFTC.

Dan, near a white pyramid-shaped sculpture, points at a distant hill-shaped building.

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Dan Q found GC4PYCF Thames Path – Floodproof

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Excellent cache, which I was pleased to observe has the largest conceivable container possible for its hiding place: nice one! I love a good treetop cache!

Once I’d free the right tree, getting up was relatively easy: the limb next over from the one mentioned in the hint provided a good launching-off point and a short scramble later I was sat at height with the container in hand. Getting down, though, proved more challenging as I slipped on a low bough and plummeted to the ground!

Dan, up a tree, holds a geocache secured high up the trunk.

Aside from my pride, the biggest injury was to my thumb, which nicked some kind of fierce plant on the way down and is bleeding as I type this. Still 100% a worthwhile effort to find a great cache, so an FP awarded.

A hand with a small chunk torn out of the back of the thumb, exposing bright red flesh beneath.

Now I’ve gotta start jogging again if I’m to have any chance of catching up to my partner Ruth, who I’ve joined in this leg of her effort to walk the entire Thames Path (I swear I didn’t just agree to tag along for the caching opportunities!).

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