Just downloaded an app for my iPhone called iBlogger.
Looks like it could be quite a good app.
Friday, 29 October 2010
Sunday, 17 October 2010
Dogwalk? No Dog!
This afternoon after doing a little shopping with the Golden Eagles, decided to go and attempt Dogwalk - 7 as it had evaded us a couple of weeks ago.
GPS was out by about 25 feet today with the tree cover overhead, certainly better than before. We searched for around 20 minutes before I logged on to get the clue again, I then continued to search for another 20 or 30 minutes while the Golden Eagles were swinging on a rope in the tree they had found.
Eventually we had enough of looking and decided to call it a day again. We will return!
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Saturday, 2 October 2010
Treasure Hunt
Decided to pop out and do another spot of night caching and obtain some TB's in the process tonight so off I went to find some 'treasure'. First stop was Corngreaves Treasure not too far from home. Parking was a couple of hundred yards down the road as the gates were locked to the Park car park, it had been raining most of the day and the river was quite high and flowing very fast next to the pathway leading to the GZ.
Upon approaching the area it was getting cooler and very misty, making the woods feel very eerie. Not much light around here so my torch was all I had to help guide me across the slippery undergrowth and mud, with the river just feet away.
My GPS was not too clever with the directions but a quick look around and I decided on a place and sure enough found the cache. After managing to sign the log book and retrieve the two TB's inside, I put it back carefully and made my way back to the car in the mist.
A quick drive then around to the other side of the park and to have a go at the Gruffalos Treasure. A short walk from my car into the woods, and scaring a few pigeons and other birds in the trees on the way, the cache was soon in my hands.
On my way home afterwards I stopped by an area where I had an idea for a cache and I needed to check the coordinates and distance from another cache. Once I had this sorted I drove round to Ash Banks multi-cache and managed to find it without the help of the GPS as it was out by a good 20 feet or so. I then decided it was time to go home and leave the second part to Ash Banks for another day.
I enjoy the night caching as I find it quite challenging compared to searching in the daylight hours.
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Friday, 1 October 2010
Nasty Nano...? Oh Yes!
I was looking on the geocache map for a cache to do on the way to work and spotted the Nasty Nano just off my regular path to work and this Friday I managed to have a go.
I got up about an hour earlier than usual as I could see from reading the logs it was a very tough one, it hadn't been found since the beginning of May! It was raining lightly and when I reached the GZ there was a little bit of cover. The GPS was wavering a little and I walked back and forth to try and get a general reading then started to look. I searched all the obvious places I could think of but no joy. I then grabbed my torch as it was quite dull and looked around with that.
After nearly 30 minutes of searching I was about to give up when my torch light caught something unusual, it was the cache. The feeling I had was one of total elation, knowing I found it where others were failing to find it. Out of 83 people attempting so far, I was number 31! It felt like it was such a great achievement. So to all of you who are struggling and think it is gone... it is there, just look, its in front of your face!
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