Caches No’s 3335 to 3354 – Church Micros South to King’s Lynn

Once again time for my annual camping trip to Norfolk (see caches 52-59, 620-630, 1299-1303, 1912-1941 and 2708-2747 for previous years) Last year to avoid the tedium of traditional drive-by caches I drove down concentrating on the non-signing types, Virtuals, Earthcaches and Survey Monuments, this year, as there were none of those left to do on the way I decided I would only go for Church Micro caches, and planned my route to suit – which took a bit of doing as there were about 40 to choose from that weren’t too far from the direct route – I certainly drove a lot fewer miles than I did last year, though in the end it took longer because I stopped at 6 more caches than last years journey down
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Caches No’s 3330 to 3334 – The Challenge Of Resuscitation

There are several challenge caches in the country that require you to have resuscitated a cache to qualify for the find. In cacheing terms Resuscitation means finding a cache that has not been found in the previous 12 months… I had tried before in May last year (see caches #2491 and #2492) but these were failures as one had gone missing and was then archived after I couldn’t find it, and the other had been found, just not logged on the website.
So I decided that it was time to have another go at finding one. Now the problem is that round here there are a lot of cachers so the only caches that haven’t been found for a year are in the main ones that are definitely missing and just waiting to be maintained, or archived, so finding a cache in need of resuscitation isn’t easy. Continue reading

Caches No’s 3320 to 3329 – The Morton Meander

One reason I like circular series without bonus caches is that you don’t ‘have’ to start at the specified start and do them in a particular order… so when I saw a new series called The Morton Meander published earlier this year I marked it down as one to do when I could walk properly again ! As it was, it took about 4 months from publication to getting round to doing it.

The series starts in the village of East Morton, but as it is a small village with narrow streets and a Saturday teatime there were all the residents cars already parked up in all available spaces so I parked half way round the route and set off down a joining footpath to where the route was – and then because of the proximity of several cows just the other side of the gate decided to go clockwise rather than anti-clockwise Continue reading

Caches No’s 3318 & 3319 – A Couple Of Caches In Dove Holes

I was visiting my Brother who lives in a place called Dove Holes just North of Buxton. Looking on the Geocaching.com website before I went I found that there was a Church Micro just a couple of hundred yards up the road  so it would have been rude not to go and find it. There is also an ancient monument called the Bull Ring just over the road from his house which has a geocache associated with it

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Cache No. 3317 – GC4RWEB – gurglefins grave

I needed a cache for a blank day on my geocaching calendar – and this one was it…

9th July 2014 – gurglefins grave GC4RWEB – cache #3317
Straightforward enough find, armed with the information that GPS co-ordinates weren’t going to be particularly accurate under the trees I went to where the hint said and looked around for the other part of the hint… only one place looked the part and I could see the cache inside it from the path.

Cache No. 3316 – GC57G42 – En Route Through Otley

A FTF that for once I was not suprised to get… Usually there are other FTF hunters who drop everything and rush out and get to any new caches, but this cache was published 40 minutes before the roads were closed off and 8-10,000 people descend on Otley for the annual Town Centre Cycle Races – so it was only likely to be someone who lives within walking distance who could get the cache… and as there was no football on TV I decided that it was time for some exercise (I had watched all 32 World Cup matches it had been possible to watch over the past 18 days)
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