Today

Rains coming in sideways. Time for a 7 mile loop....

Went out and grabbed a church Micro (Shorncote) on the way home from shops, especially as today is the 8th Church Micro Day!

Another day, another Nick_h_nz fail to find


No! It wasn't as bad as all that. We did have a good day out which is the main thing. Not having attempted a traditional terracache for a couple of months, and with okay weather predicted, we were up and out at the crack of dawn (about 9.45am) to head the 50 miles plus down into Suffolk with a wish list of 9 caches to log (some hope) 3 terracaches and 6 groundspeak (mainly solved puzzles where logging them would prove how clever I am to the geocaching world
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In the event with the short days, it's getting dark around 4.30 at the moment, and the need to feed meaning a diversion to Burger King around 2.30pm we logged a somewhat unimpressive 3 caches during our day out. Hey! It's not all about the numbers, we were being selective with what we attempted and we found 3 out of 4, sadly none of them a TC (although did take a few photos which will probably allow a locationless log or two).

In the end Owlbarrow Branch Line was the only TC we attempted. We parked near the Seashell in Aldeburgh and walked up the disused railway line to Thorpeness past the House in the Clouds and back along the seafront a walk of around 4 miles. We enjoyed the views of geese and egrets on the way. An unintentional high spot was arriving at the Thorpeness golf course to find 3 golfers all trying to hack their way out of greenside bunkers. After 5 minutes of watching none had succeeded. They had reached the stage of laughing about their lack of success by the time we left supressing our own giggles. At the cache site we were fortunate that there were no mosquitoes but neither was there any sign of the cache


130 plus miles and a whole day spent finding 3 caches. Good day or bad? Memorable, that's for sure. I did manage to fill a space on the D/T grid

Will look out for its publication.

I have thought about setting one or two earth caches in the past, but not sure I could keep up with email answering. I like the way a few of the London virtual caches are set up in the way you email an answer and it is automated to send you a reply if correct. I think I would set something up like that if I ever do go ahead.

WindpumpBoy, I think I am going to have to head Nick's way before the end of the year if I truly intend to find all the caches I need for the TC competition. I was so close to completing TCEE2 when I attended the nearby event a couple of years back, it pained me that I couldn't get a find. But that day I think I really needed a floating craft, or I would of had to have stayed soaking wet on my drive all the way back to the Cotswolds. I would like to try get that one again.

That sucks from both of us

I ran the new "Roundabout Ramble" series at Avening, near Tetbury. Wet and really in parts. All caches found.