One minute it was sunny, the next it was chucking it down with rain. But after working on the house this morning I needed a (caching) break. The log page was empty and so I dashed off to Loaded Gun. I managed to get to the cache before it started to rain - only to find that I wasn't the first to find after all but I still enjoyed the cache and the views. I went back to the car very quickly, almost wishing I had brought a canoe with me!
Hopped off to Which witch is which? this morning after a nice oatcake breakfast so I think I'm even on the calories front :-)
The first travel bugs that I found has gone missing when the cache that he was in was plundered - RIP @venture :-(
I was at my parents on Saturday so it was a chance to get Precisely Bolsover. I had already done most of the work and failed to find previously, so this time it was a quick drive up and find the cache. This time I was unable to drive down the green lane due to the amount of rubbish that some idiots had left on the lane. As I was about 200 yards away from the cache, the GPS bleeped twice and showed "Low Battery". This prompted a run down the field as that meant I had about 30 seconds before the gps would switch off. Fortunately the GPS showed the correct spot - according to my Dad who had already found the cache - but someone had moved it since he had been there. It didn't take long to find the most recent hiding place though. And another annoying cache has now been found.
I've had to run another query for pocket queries now to capture the uk's caches as of August 17th the last cache was returning 500 results. So I've set up another one to return from August 17th to Dec 31st.
I got a mention on the Todays Cacher article about blogging cachers so iIsuppose I'd better make sure this blog is upto date - more details coming shortly. In the meantime, Hi to any Today's Cacher readers.
Found Austin Power #4, a kimrobin cache, and the fourth (and most recent) in a series of devious puzzle caches hidden around Leeds. Fortunately we have a couple of clients near Leeds so I was able to go and find this after work. This was unusual in that once the coordinates were found, the cache place was fairly easy to find - the others have been straightforward coordinates but finding the cache has been 30 mins of scratching my head and looking suspicious to passerbys.
Found my first Interception bug which is one of three travel bugs somewhere in the UK. Each TB has part of the co-ordinates for a mystery cache somewhere in the uk, but probably near Bedfordshire. None of the bugs have been in this part of the uk for a while but ARRKS managed to get two of them when caching in Oxford a couple of weeks ago. They wouldn't let me look at them though.
This was an extra special find as it was placed in my own cache, probably the hardest one that I've hidden, and as I was up early in the morning I dashed off to find it at 6am before coming back to the house for coffee and breakfast.
Friends of ours were coming home from America today and we volunteered to pick them up from the airport. I took the day off work and managed to sneak in some caches and travel bugs before their plane arrived. I found MIATBX Final Approach, the worlds furthest airport travel bug hotel from the airport and whilst there got the numbers for the travel bugs that were in there (too many to mention). I then drove over to Fletcher Moss Jukebox first and then fought my way through Didsbury traffic to Chorlton Water Park where I got another travel bug but forgot to write down the number so I can't actually log it! After that I then realised that there was another Fletcher Moss cache by the first one I did, but there was no way I was going to go through all that traffic again.