Sunday afternoon 13/03/2011
n.e.a.r. (a group of Geocachers I've mentioned previously) published a new series today based on The Gruffalo, a famous children's book/poem. This is a child friendly series, created by their young daughter, where each of the four caches is hidden somewhere appropriate for each animal met in the story.
We were having a lazy weekend because Jade had a heavy cold but eventually the lure of a possible FTF, plus the planned fresh air, was too much and we headed off. The plan fell apart quickly and Jade was left at her mother's while I inherited their little sister Olivia - who has more Geocaching eagerness than either of my two have ever had.
We drove up to Wickersley, parked and were quickly on location at the first cache. Whilst hunting, weakly it must be said, Angellica turned up with her two girls Grace (aged 2) and Katie (age 6?). Katie was quickly onto the cache firmly, I suspect, putting Olivia's nose out of joint.
We walked around the short circuit in about 45 minutes basically circling the entire Wickersley Woods. Katie is an expert and got three while Olivia got one, although truth be told I actually found #3 and #4 and then hinted to the kids where I thought they might be - it's a kids series and I wasn't going to spoil it for them!
It was all over far too quickly for Olivia and we headed back to the car.
This last one was Hannah's 600th and that reminded us that I would now be on 699 so we drove off to pick-up a simple drive-by at Ravensfield. This cache has been on my radar for ages but it wasn't really worth the distance to pick-up a single cache. However as we were most of the way there it was an ideal single to bag my 700th - even if the actual cache was something of a let down (sorry but terrible coordinates do bug me.)
[A small walk of just over a mile, 5 caches and 4 joint-FTFs.]
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Monday, 14 March 2011
Monday, 11 October 2010
Scoffing Scones in Swaffham
We've were down at my mother's house in Norfolk this weekend - she's got quite a large amount of woodland that would be great to hide caches on!
On Saturday (unfortunately we couldn't plan it for the 10/10/10 global event) we popped into Swaffham and had tea and scones at the second-hand bookshop, which has a small cafe in the back, and then wandered off to do the Swaffham Saunter series. This is about a three mile series with six 35mm film canister caches each with a coordinate leading to the final seventh. We forgot to take the clue from the first but it was pretty obvious what the missing coordinates was. The hides were all simple and there's actually little really to write about. Total walking distance was 3.9 miles including the walk from & to the car-park.
I spent a fair amount of Sunday working on my next cache. I researched the coordinates and wrote the puzzle about 6 weeks ago and then last week I uploaded the webpage which is now sat ready to be activated but still I needed to make the actual hide. I haven't really had the time or the materials but I set to work with a vengeance on Sunday whilst the kids were all hatching 'get rich quick' schemes and making magic wands which they hoped to sell at school.
I can't write too much in my blog for fear of leaving a spoiler as I'm hoping both the puzzle and the hide are difficult and therefore will be highly rewarding to successful finders.
My plan is to have it finished and published by next weekend.
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Muggled!
I received a DNF (did-not-find) notification and a detailed email last night from a well-experienced Geocacher who could not find my "Queen 2" cache, even after she had resorted to PAF (phone-a-friend - ring somebody for help who has already found it).
I've not had chance to check yet but from her email it really does sound like it has been stolen and it's very frustrating. I know this sort of thing happens all the time with this hobby, and I quite accept that, but as it's my first one to go missing I'm a little bit more disappointed than I probably will be in the future.
I have a replacement tub and contents ready, and it's not the money that bothers me, it's just the time it will take and also the frustration at the pointlessness of the destruction or theft.
On Saturday (unfortunately we couldn't plan it for the 10/10/10 global event) we popped into Swaffham and had tea and scones at the second-hand bookshop, which has a small cafe in the back, and then wandered off to do the Swaffham Saunter series. This is about a three mile series with six 35mm film canister caches each with a coordinate leading to the final seventh. We forgot to take the clue from the first but it was pretty obvious what the missing coordinates was. The hides were all simple and there's actually little really to write about. Total walking distance was 3.9 miles including the walk from & to the car-park.
I spent a fair amount of Sunday working on my next cache. I researched the coordinates and wrote the puzzle about 6 weeks ago and then last week I uploaded the webpage which is now sat ready to be activated but still I needed to make the actual hide. I haven't really had the time or the materials but I set to work with a vengeance on Sunday whilst the kids were all hatching 'get rich quick' schemes and making magic wands which they hoped to sell at school.
I can't write too much in my blog for fear of leaving a spoiler as I'm hoping both the puzzle and the hide are difficult and therefore will be highly rewarding to successful finders.
My plan is to have it finished and published by next weekend.
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Muggled!
I received a DNF (did-not-find) notification and a detailed email last night from a well-experienced Geocacher who could not find my "Queen 2" cache, even after she had resorted to PAF (phone-a-friend - ring somebody for help who has already found it).
I've not had chance to check yet but from her email it really does sound like it has been stolen and it's very frustrating. I know this sort of thing happens all the time with this hobby, and I quite accept that, but as it's my first one to go missing I'm a little bit more disappointed than I probably will be in the future.
I have a replacement tub and contents ready, and it's not the money that bothers me, it's just the time it will take and also the frustration at the pointlessness of the destruction or theft.
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