And it’s actually been a long time since I went geocaching. The last time I went caching was in December 07 – I almost can’t believe it’s been that long! I remember that day was really nice and TeamJNle4 and I got several caches in. This time I was caching by myself during our holiday in the Outer Banks, North Carolina. I had tried to get Afton Mountain Multi but for some reason my coordinates were putting me in the middle of an open space and nowhere near where a cache was likely to be hidden. Kristen was pretty anxious to get going (and this cache had meant 3 stops along the road already) so I reluctantly agreed to carry on. It was actually really hot outside so it was a relief to get back into the air conditioned car.
When we got to North Carolina, we had some free time in the second week so I checked the caches that were available and found that one of the caches (Dare County Water Project) hadn’t been found yet – a chance to get a first to find – this couldn’t be missed. I got all scratched up trying to find this cache as I was wearing shorts but it was a really good hunt. The cache owner has hidden some very clever hides in the vicinity and I managed to get several of his caches done whilst on holiday.
I’ve now got some travel bugs and there are still plenty of new geocaches nearby that I’ve not found so hopefully I’ll get the chance to get out and do some caching in Ohio this year.
As part of the Central Ohio Geocachers meet today, we all went to the March to the Arch webcam cache and Kristen took the photo. As this is the first webcam that I've had a chance to log I got another icon on my Stats
Thanks luv!
OS GPS Convertor is a great tool for converting between coordinates for caches and can also copy/paste the results into TomTom for you as can be seen if you follow the demonstration pages
Had a good day out on Saturday with deego when we went back to the wigan area to clear some more caches that we failed to do at the cache meet a month ago. Set off from the carpark just before 9am and got to the first carpark about 9.50 and off to work. The first cache deego found and he continued to find quite a few of them throughout the day although I think we evened off at the end - but who's counting? The day was quite eventful with finding a letterbox cache - Rivington Pike (thats one more icon on the stats page) and losing (and finding) my cache on the same day. We had snow, hail and sunshine throughout the day and managed to avoid most of the bad weather as it occured whilst we were in the car working out our next cache. We also got an unexpected find in Scrabble B when I put in the new co-ordinates and we were parked about 20' away from it!
You can now see a gallery of photo's submitted for a pocket query, so here are the photos for my caches. You must be logged into geocaching.com otherwise you'll get the most recent photos uploaded.
My write up for Don't Look Down has been published.
By going to the GeocacheUK cache page and running a query without limiting the mileage , saving as an autoroute file and then importing into autoroute, I now have all the cache locations in autoroute so I can work out where they are and how to get to them whilst on business. REALLY useful - Acton here we come.