29th July 2023 – Piratemania 15 Pirates Royalists & Roundheads GCA2BBR – cache #6435
Piratemania is always the same, lots of folk dressed in pirate costumes, stalls selling geocaching and other merchandise, stalls selling food and drinks and everybody just has a lovely time… I have been to eight of them now, and the weather has always been pleasant – apart from the one in 2018 where I made a quick visit for just a few hours and so didn’t do any caching where it was very windy and had some heavy rain.
Naseby again was a lovely sunny day and again a good time was had by all.

29th July 2023 – PM 15 The puzzles of Naseby (2023) Lab Cache – Waddle we do now Blackbeard? – cache #6436
As usual there were a set of physical lab cache puzzles set out for Piratemania… and many of them were the same ideas they have been using for years, but they are still fun to do.

29th July 2023 – PM 15 The puzzles of Naseby (2023) Lab Cache – Sleeping with the Pirates devils – cache #6437

29th July 2023 – PM 15 The puzzles of Naseby (2023) Lab Cache – The resurrection of Captain Spoons – cache #6438

29th July 2023 – PM 15 The puzzles of Naseby (2023) Lab Cache – Message from the flagship – cache #6439

29th July 2023 – PM 15 The puzzles of Naseby (2023) Lab Cache – A bit of a Rum Do – cache #6440

29th July 2023 – PM 15 The puzzles of Naseby (2023) Lab Cache – The ghostly voice of Davey Jones – cache #6441

29th July 2023 – PM 15 The puzzles of Naseby (2023) Lab Cache – Follow Captain Simon into a tornado – cache #6442

29th July 2023 – PM 15 The puzzles of Naseby (2023) Lab Cache – Man the Lifeboats! – cache #6443

29th July 2023 – PM 15 The puzzles of Naseby (2023) Lab Cache – Jake and the Neverland Pirates mix it up – cache #6444

29th July 2023 – PM 15 The puzzles of Naseby (2023) Lab Cache – Twist the mainsail – cache #6445

29th July 2023 – #01 Pirate Rupert’s retreat GCA6BCF – cache #6446
Once the Lab Caches were done people were hanging around deciding what to do and a group of us decided to go and do a set of caches put out for the event.
The team comprised of FM1906 (Fiona), matthewgibbs (Matthew), Maerad (Wendy), Team e.2105 (Mark) and myself
Mark found the first cache

29th July 2023 – 63. Prince Rupert of the Rhine GCA2C0N – cache #6447
Matthew doing the honours

29th July 2023 – Pirates visit Naseby Lab Cache – Battle of Naseby Obelisk – cache #6448
The Naseby obelisk was passed on the way, so we had to stop off to do the lab cache

29th July 2023 – #01 Pirate Thomas’s wonder GCA6BFN – cache #6449
The third cache along the lane was the first cache of the new series… and I am fairly sure that the series should actually have been entitled “Pirate Thomas’s Wander”… one letter makes all the difference

29th July 2023 – #02 Pirate Thomas’s wonder GCA6BFX – cache #6450

29th July 2023 – #03 Pirate Thomas’s wonder GCA6BG3 – cache #6451
Mark is very good, he holds the log book up after he has signed it so I can take my photograph

29th July 2023 – #04 Pirate Thomas’s wonder GCA6BGD – cache #6452

29th July 2023 – Sancho Panza GC98HP7 – cache #6453

29th July 2023 – #05 Pirate Thomas’s wonder GCAA0JG – cache #6454

29th July 2023 – #06 Pirate Thomas’s wonder GCAA9HN – cache #6455

29th July 2023 – Don Quixote GC98HMW – cache #6456
Not all the caches were quick easy finds, this was an older cache which was attached to a fence, the problem was the fence was about 10ft from the path and the vegetation in between was head height.. Some other cachers were there looking for it with no success, but we found it (well I did)

29th July 2023 – #07 Pirate Thomas’s wonder GCAA9HX – cache #6457

29th July 2023 – #08 Pirate Thomas’s wonder GCAA9J4 – cache #6458

29th July 2023 – #09 Pirate Thomas’s wonder GCAA9JA – cache #6459

29th July 2023 – #10 Pirate Thomas’s wonder GCAA9JH – cache #6460

29th July 2023 – #11 Pirate Thomas’s wonder GCAA9JV – cache #6461

29th July 2023 – #12 Pirate Thomas’s wonder GCAA9JX – cache #6462
The cache brought us back to the road, and where the patch joined the road were two benches in a quite relaxing spot, I decided that it was a great spot and I would come back to eat my Fish and Chips there later.

29th July 2023 – #13 Pirate Thomas’s wonder GCAA9K0 – cache #6463

29th July 2023 – #14 Pirate Thomas’s wonder GCAA9K6 – cache #6464

29th July 2023 – #15 Pirate Thomas’s wonder GCAA9KQ – cache #6465

29th July 2023 – #16 Pirate Thomas’s wonder GCAA9M1 – cache #6466

29th July 2023 – #17 Pirate Thomas’s wonder GCAA9M7 – cache #6467

After completing the walk I was hungry so went off to the Chip Shop (next to the hotel I was staying at) for the aforementioned fish and chips, which I ate, as I said earlier at the benches where cache #12 was hidden.

29th July 2023 – Pirates visit Naseby Lab Cache – The Regal Oak tree – cache #6468
As it was getting dark the night Lab Caches were released, so we all headed out of the marquee to do them, but first to get to one at the end of the line I had to go near an oak tree which had it’s own Lab cache

29th July 2023 – PM15 Naseby – Be you afraid of the dark? (2023) Lab Cache – Sea creatures – cache #6469
Then it was on to the Night Labs, again nothing really unusual, just similar ideas that had been done before, but fun for all that and the dark makes it more entertaining, with groups of torchlit people wandering around looking for caches

29th July 2023 – PM15 Naseby – Be you afraid of the dark? (2023) Lab Cache – Bottoms up! – cache #6470

29th July 2023 – PM15 Naseby – Be you afraid of the dark? (2023) Lab Cache – Buzz Buzz! – cache #6471

29th July 2023 – PM15 Naseby – Be you afraid of the dark? (2023) Lab Cache – Geocachers Treasure – cache #6472

29th July 2023 – PM15 Naseby – Be you afraid of the dark? (2023) Lab Cache – Navigate by Stars – cache #6473

29th July 2023 – PM15 Naseby – Be you afraid of the dark? (2023) Lab Cache – Pieces of (more than) 8 – cache #6474

29th July 2023 – PM15 Naseby – Be you afraid of the dark? (2023) Lab Cache – Pining for adventure – cache #6475

29th July 2023 – PM15 Naseby – Be you afraid of the dark? (2023) Lab Cache – Call the Captain – cache #6476

29th July 2023 – PM15 Naseby – Be you afraid of the dark? (2023) Lab Cache – Which direction should we go? – cache #6477

29th July 2023 – PM15 Naseby – Be you afraid of the dark? (2023) Lab Cache – Wooden caches – cache #6478