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I'm just sat listening to Radio 4 via the web at work (yeah naughty naughty) because I was alerted that there was a half-hour programme on about Geocaching. I guess there might be an explosion of newcomers over the next week!
We got home from work yesterday and because it was Thursday we ate before we walked, this is because we have the children until about 8pm. About 6:15 I got an automated email from geocaching.com notifying me of a new cache that had been published about 5 miles away at Magna - a science park celebrating air, earth, water and fire which is quite a good day out for the family.
We set off about 8:15, after the kids had gone, but as there's some very keen local cachers we expected it to have already been discovered in the intervening 2 hours. After 15 minutes of looking (the torch was out for the nooks and crannies) we found the nano cache (it's about 1.5cm in size) tucked in a dark corner. We opened it and to our delight found we were the first - our name gets the elusive FTF spot on the log!
Very pleasing. That's our seventh First To Find.
We then drove up to Wickersley again to try to bag another couple in the area. We walked a good half-mile to the first one which we found quickly but the light was already failing us. We returned to the car and drove a couple of miles to the second, and then walked again for about a further half a mile but had to abort; it was pitch black and we had discovered we were on the wrong side of a stream that was too wide to cross.
We'll bag it another day - we know roughly where it is now, and where to park, so it should be a quick find hopefully.
I've been working on a really devious puzzle for my next hide; there's a page of descriptive text about the local area which is simply there to be full of red herring's and false alarms about the actual co-ordinates. It needs more work because I want it to be a total bugger to solve, so I'm waiting for further inspiration.
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