This checkin to GL3J9DE3 Coast Path Caper reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Came up here for a walk and, while on the way, thought I’d check if the cache (which I failed to find after it’s recent muggling) had been replaced. It had! I checked in the “obvious place”, which I’m guessing is where it used to live, and then a brief search later, found it. TFTC.
This afternoon, like last year, we took the opportunity to spend Easter Sunday hiding one another’s Easter eggs in the woods and then running around looking for them.
For some reason, this year Rory didn’t want me to be responsible for hiding his egg (something to do with his eventually being found up a tree, last year), so I ended up hiding Adam‘s, instead. I didn’t even put much effort into it: just propped it on a branch. This turned out to be a bad hiding place because Adam walked right back past it on his way back from hiding JTA‘s egg.
Paul, meanwhile, hid my egg. He did a pretty good job of it, too, and eventually had to give me a couple of clues. “It’s near Barking Up The Wrong Tree,” he said, knowing perfectly well that this was a geocache that I hadn’t yet hunted for. I pulled out my GPSr and found the cache, and then started looking for my egg in the vicinity.
In a particularly special bit of hiding, Rory managed to hide Matt P‘s egg so well that he himself couldn’t find it again. Eventually we all had to help hunt for Matt’s lost egg. Rory had helpfully taken a photo of the egg in it’s hiding place, but this photo was ultimately useless because it depicted nothing more distinctive than “a wood”, which we were unable to see for all of the trees. I suppose that if we were trying to get to a particular spot and then ascertain that we were in the right place, it would be useful, except for that fact that being in the exact right place would probably have been pretty obvious by the time we were standing on top of an Easter egg.
Finally, Adam basically “tripped over” the hidden egg, and all was well.
All in all, it was a fabulous afternoon out, and a great way to work off all the calories of Ruth‘s most-excellent Easter lunch (and just in time to be able to scoff down cakes and chocolate later in the afternoon).
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This checkin to GC255Y6 Theta reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
I, too, had thought on ocassion about putting a cache here, but changed my mind after seeing what the weather can be like. Took a look today, no luck. Sbhaq n zntarg, ohg ab pnpur.
This checkin to GL3G28QA A Tight Squeeze reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Found with restlessboy and fleeblewidget after an extended search: not in the most obvious place! Met thebuttonmushroom and hunted with her, after which she gave us a hint on “Cardiff’s Bouncy Bridge, which we’d taken a quick look for and failed to find earlier in the day.” Nice container! TFTC.
This checkin to GL3G29YC Cardiff Rivers #4 Taff-Ely-Rhymney - City Hall reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Found with fleeblewidget and restlessboy. Nice little hide! No picture in the cache, though (or did I misunderstand the description).
This checkin to GC1RGNM Cardiff,s "bouncy" bridge reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Despite a hint from thebuttonmushroom, STILL didn’t manage to find this elusive cache. Rainy and full of muggles, so gave up. A hint on the page would have been nice!
This checkin to GL3FWKWW PC-001 Costly Culvert reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
The ninth cache of the day for fleeblewidget and I, this wonderfully well-concealed cache wasn’t even on the same side of the road as we started looking on, thanks to GPS signals scattering off the trees. Great cache.
This checkin to GL3FWM7G CAT1 - Bridge2Bridge - The Pool reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
On our way back from the excellent “PC-001 Costly Culvert”, it began to rain, and we considered just going straight home… but then we noticed a few more caches on the way and we couldn’t resist hunting for one or two more before we called it a day. This cache was the tenth of the day for fleeblewidget and I, and we needed the hint before we worked out where we were looking. A very imaginative cache, I’m very impressed!
Don’t be put off by the civil engineers building… whatever it is they’re building… at the moment, they’re not in the way and they’re not really paying attention to people looking for geocaches.
Also; this cache probably ought to have the “public restrooms nearby” attribute, as there’s a toilet right next to it!
This checkin to GL3FWMQ0 Sidetracked - Wallingford reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
The eleventh and final cache for the day for fleeblewidget and I. By now the rain had really started to fall and it had begun to get dark, so our search was a little more frantic than usual. Found the cache with little difficulty, but the log is pretty much soaked and part of the… “mechanism used to hide the cache”… is damaged and it may not last much longer: urgently needs maintenance.
TFTC; looking at the locomotives in the nearby engine yard was the perfect way to end today’s expedition.
This checkin to GL3FWJW2 PC-007 Dog Gone Agility reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Unfortunately we didn’t plan our trip quite wisely enough, and this – the sixth cache of the day for fleeblewidget and I – involved us crossing over the A4074 for a third and then (when we left) a fourth time for the day, which did take quite some time as we had to wait for breaks in the traffic which were few and far between. But the reward was worth it: this cache is one of the cleverest I’ve ever seen.
fleeblewidget actually PICKED UP the cache to look under it before I realised that what she had in her hand was, actually, the cache! Watched a few helicopters taking off from and landing at the nearby air force base as we waited for a gap in the traffic on our way back. Great cache, thanks!
This checkin to GL3FWK5T PC-003 You Can Do It reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
fleeblewidget and I took a damp walk through the field after we lost the path on our way to this, our seventh cache of the day. We spent quite a while looking in exactly the wrong places before we had another go at getting a GPS fix and, then… bang – we were right on top of it. Don’t think the crows in the nearby rookery were pleased to see us: they kept cawing and flying in circles over our heads like tiny vultures. Lovely little roads, around here; I’ve walked one or two of them before, but never on such a nice day.
This checkin to GL3FWKGT PC-002 Veiled reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Excellent cache, here! fleeblewidget and I walked right past it, walked back again, waited for some muggles to pass, and then looked right at it and around it before we found what we were looking for. Despite having already done several of Malpas Wanderer’s other caches, we were pleased and surprised to find yet another ingenious bit of cache-placing. Quite hard to put the log back again afterwards, though!
This checkin to GL3FWHCM PC-004 Not Quite The Thames Path reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Third cache in today’s expedition. The trees and fence made the GPS signal spotty, but a quick walk up and down a few times got us a good fix on this beautiful little cache. I’ve never found an ammo box cache before, so this is my first, and it was quite an experience: a whole trove of treasures! Took the Seattle Compass-Thermometer travel bug (but didn’t think to take a temperature reading at the time, will try to remember to do so when I drop it off) and the Poker Events Geocoin (not listed as being in the box, listed as being with it’s owner!), and left the Red Jeep Travel Bug.
Thanks for a great cache!
This checkin to GL3FWJ33 PC-006 Up The Garden Path reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Fourth cache in today’s expedition. Great container, and it took a few minutes before fleeblewidget and I spotted it! Picked up Mick’s Pirhana travel bug and dropped off the “code” travel bug (a long way from home, now!). Met a friendly donkey just a little further South along the path who ran alongside the fence to come and greet us and said goodbye with big, sad eyes.
Cache was a little damp so I added a couple of silica gel sachets to help keep it dry.
This checkin to GL3FWJFJ PC-005 Goat Pasture reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Fifth cache of the day, and it was I who managed to home-in on this one fastest, leaving fleeblewidget on the path as I went straight for the cache. Only one-star difficulty? Wow: you take things seriously around here. No goats in the field today, but plenty of bunny rabbits.