Tag: geocaching

This checkin to GC4KTD0 Beaumont Palace reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Muggles kept wandering past and hampering my search (which was already slowed down by the fact that I didn't "get" the hint; ah well!). Ran out of time on my lunchbreak: I'll have to come back another time.

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This checkin to GC24ZNF Oxford United FC reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. What a shame for this, one of the best caches in Oxford, to disappear. CotswoldOx: if you're not planning on replacing it, I wonder if you wouldn't mind if I did so instead? Drop me a message.

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This checkin to GC4H3P7 Alleyways of Oxford - Brasenose Lane reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Hunted as well as I was willing to, without putting my hands into anything particularly disgusting in the improvised toilet that is this GZ. :-( No luck, though: perhaps I'm not looking in the …

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This checkin to GLDWG38D Dogfort v Catfort - Dogfort Scientist reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Let battle commence! My first Dogfort vs. Catfort find, but hopefully not my last.

Great location, but took me a while to get the cache out of it's hiding place - perhaps I've not got …

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This checkin to GLDWG1F9 Alleyways of Oxford - St Helen's Passage reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Basically next door to where I work, so stepped out for a quick lunchtime expedition. Easy enough find, but some stealth was required: muggles everywhere!

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This checkin to GC3VJAT Route Canal - Dukes Cut reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My last hunt of the day, as it started to get dark and my GPSr's battery finally died and it made a sad noise and fell asleep. The hint only told me what I already …

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This checkin to GC4CFE3 Route Canal - Court View reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Battery was starting to get low on my phone, which I was using as my GPS and which I'd forgotten to properly charge before I left the office this afternoon, so I didn't hunt for …

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This checkin to GC3XVHG Route Canal - Plough View reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A narrowboater had moored nearby and struck up a conversation with me as I parked my bike and sat on the bench near this cache. It's a shame he was so friendly, because it gave …

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This checkin to GCN69F Never at Sea - Grog reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Took a diversion on my way home from work to try to get this and some of the Route Canal series. Unfortunately I failed at this, my first cache of the day, when I found …

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This checkin to GLDTXPFT Route Canal - End of the Road reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. It's been over a year since I've done a "serious" caching expedition, and the clue threw me for a while as I tried to dredge up an old memory of what it meant. …

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This checkin to GLDTXPXH Route Canal - Wolvercote Lock reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A quick and easy find as I cycled home to Kidlington up the Oxford canal.

Battery was getting really low now, so I decided that if I was only going to be able to manage one …

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This checkin to GLDTXP8T Route Canal - Oxford End reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Had to stretch to reach it! Nice cache.

Saw a rabbit skull while hunting in the wrong place.

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This checkin to GLDT2A0Y Wreck this Logbook* reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Took my co-workers lizrosemccarthy and kateevery out on their first ever geocaching expedition, and this was their first ever find: what a great first-cache for anybody. Scrawled in the log, along with other vandalism which I'll leave …

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This checkin to GLCDYQ4Z The Oldest Pub in Stirling reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found with fleeblewidget on the way to a nice beer with half of reaperfish. We'd have found it faster if we hadn't met reaperfish, though, because he found this cache back in 2009 and was …

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This checkin to GLCDYM4B A Stirling Sanctuary reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found with fleeblewidget while visiting my old friend (half of reaperfish), a local to this cache, for an evening of food and beer. A nice easy find, once we'd removed some of the wildlife that was clinging …

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