On A Roller!

Third day of caching, and I'm on a roller!

Four caches today, three of which I managed to find but the last beat me. Oh well, you have to take the rough with the smooth I suppose.

The first two were Woody 2 and 3, between Amblecote and Brierley Hill. I arrived at Woody 2 around 02.00hrs and spent about 10 minutes trying to find it as GPS would not settle down. Trying my best not to make too much noise as it was close to the houses. A quick walk then around to Woody 3, GPS was warming up now, and I managed to bag the cache 15 minutes later. Getting late now, so off to bed as I had work in the morning.

Woke up early and set off for work, but first it was off to Lucky Ducky as I noticed it was up for STF. GPS was spot on this morning so the cache was quickly found. It was still early before I had to start work, so I went off to Harry & Josh 001 not too far away, but near to work, had a good look around but GPS was not responding too well because of the tree cover and my mobile battery went so I was unable to get any hints, so I left it for another day.

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My New GPS Arrives

I ordered a Garmin eTrex H Personal GPS Navigator from eBay the other day and it arrived today, so you've gotta try it out ain'tcha!


A quick look on the geocache site for a local cache came up with two of the Bromsgrove Feeder series, Bromsgrove Feeder (Clockwise) and Bromsgrove Feeder (Gallows Brook). These are the logs;


Time: 02.00hrs
Weather: Dry and cool.


My second go at a Geocache and it only took me about 10 minutes to find, after having my hat tugged off my head several times by the branches of the trees! 


Parked car in Field Lane and walked round. Excellent hide.
Received my new Etrex H GPS today so had to try it out. It was out by about 35ft.
TFTC TNLN SL


On to the next - Gallows Brook


Time: 02.15hrs
Weather: Dry and cool.


My third go at a Geocache and it only took me about 15 minutes to walk from Bromsgrove Feeder (Clockwise) and to find it. Excellent hide.


Etrex H GPS was out by about 35ft again. Have adjusted to grid North and will try out on next cache probably tomorrow night.


TFTC TNLN SL
On to the next cache.

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Time For Tee

Browsing on the internet I came across a link for Geocaching, I became curious as to what it is and read a few pages, a week later after signing up on the website I searched for my first cache to find.


It was late at night on February 11th 2010, I thought I would go for one a couple of miles away from home to save getting muggled, so armed with my sat nav, I set off for Hagley and 'Time For Tee'.


This was my log for that night;


Time: 01.55hrs (Dark? Not much! Very, very dark!)
Weather: Dry, freezing (-2.5°C), clear sky.
Going: Crispy after snowfall yesterday.


Scared a few pigeons in the trees, or did they scare me whilst walking to cache when I arrived? No chance of any mugglers/golfers this time of the night!


Managed to find after about 10 minutes; sat-nav said you are at destination and I noticed a possible location, didn't inspect... should have!


This was my very first find and I really enjoyed the challenge; especially in the dark! TFTH TFTC SL TN left a small metal retractable tape measure. Log Book starting to get damp, found it difficult to write.


'Time for Tee'? No, Time for bed! Ha! Ha!


NOTE TO SELF: Make sure battery on sat-nav charged fully; ran out just a couple of minutes after I found cache. PHEW! Good job my torch was a wind-up one.


After that night, I was hooked to geocaching!

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