Waseley Country Park

Just before the 'slide' downhill!

The weather being a bit wet yesterday, with nowhere to take the kids to expel some of their energy, as they were driving us up the wall, we decided to take a chance with the weather. We all jumped into the car and headed out towards Waseley Country Park, Rubery.

Upon arrival, there was a break in the clouds with some sun shining through. Yay!

We took the Rabbit trail and walked for a while and I remembered where a cache was and the Golden Eagles attempted to find it, and it was soon in hand.

Carrying on walking round after the cache, we entered the valley where the two eldest GE's decided to go up the hill and run down, not a good idea! Em had run too fast, tripped, then slid about 15ft along the grass on her front, laughing as she slid. Luckily, she wasn't hurt.

After recovering, we walked a little further into the wooded area and I soon spotted another GZ for them to attempt, and after a minutes search, had the cache and log signed.

Walking on further, we came up to the top of the hill towards the end of the trail, the wind was very strong and cold after the shelter of the valley below, by this time the GE's decided it was time to go to the play area back near the car park.

A lovely walk and dry weather made it an enjoyable afternoon, and hopefully get the GE's back into caching with me ... fingers crossed!

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Busy, Busy, Busy!

It's been a very busy week, not only at work, but caching and Munzee hunting too!

The caching trip around Brewood was amazing and very tiring, 12 miles approximately were covered, 40 caches and a bunch of Munzee thrown in for good measure. The company was fantastic, couldn't ask for a better day, apart from my legs, they were almost dropping off!

During the week I spent several nights deploying Munzee around Uffmoor Wood, Halesowen, 28 in total, then Team Munzee had organised a Munzee Double Points Weekend, and during this time I had covered Sutton Park (with -Ako-), Dartmouth Park, Merrions Wood, Warrens Hall Nature Reserve, and the Trees & Silver series, bagging 188 Munzee in total, and my legs survived.

There's a group meeting for the West Mids Geocaching on Friday night this week to do 3 new FMF (Fungimanforager) caches, so I'm looking forward to attending that now. If you have never attempted FMF caches, shame on you, get out there and do some, you will not be disappointed!

Where Have I Been?

Good question. Where HAVE I been?

Not long after my last post a friend of mine, who was also into geocaching, told me about a new game that was still in its infancy and did not have many people playing it around the world. The game was Munzee.

My friend told me that all I needed to play was a smartphone and to open an account on the website, www.munzee.com. Since then I have been capturing, deploying and setting up the First UK Munzee Meet (1UKMM) in November, and getting myself into the top 50 players in the world, currently I am in 36th position!

Don't begin to think that I have stopped caching, I haven't, I have just stepped down a notch on getting out to do them, and along with my family and work, it has been very difficult lately trying to do both.

Most of my caching now seems to be done with several other friends as a group, either a night cache or during a weekend camping, and tomorrow quite a few of us are off to do a series at 6am!

Yes, I know, I've mentioned Geocaching and Munzee in the same place, and now, in the same sentence, well it is my blog and I can do what I want! :oP

Check out my munzee website for more information: www.munzee.info