Severed hands and mysterious ringing doorbells...it's got to be Halloween!
Back from our adventures abroad, we hit the ground running in order to fill some calendar gaps in our caching calendar.
No sooner had we unloaded our luggage from the car I headed off, slightly jet lagged, to the forest around Warren Lodge, near Mildenhall. Located at the far end of the woodland trail was the last unfound cache in the Idle Hands series.
Grabbing the parents dog Bobby - a rather enthusiastic black Labrador - on the way, we were soon traversing the woodland path heading for the cache. It was a decent walk and as we approached GZ I spotted the bright red gory cache. In keeping with the series theme, it was another severed hand, this time a rather bloody one, and the cache was neatly attached.
After a bit of a tussle with the dog who desperately wanted to get his mouth around it, I’d signed the log and safely returned it.
The following day, I needed another grid filler, so on a trip to Cambridge decided to stop off and grab a fairly new one at Fulbourn business park. After making the error of driving into the actual park and realising the link to the Old Drift was not open to cars, I turned around and headed a little further up the road, where it was possible to access it.
Soon on a very quiet piece of road with easy parking, I spotted the likely hint item and there was the magnetic appropriately coloured cache.
As Earthcache day arrived, it was time to get out the GPS again and decide on a suitable Earthcache to discover in order to claim the souvenir.
It’s the first time in my three years of caching that I’ve actually been able to head out on Earthcache day and I decided to head for Lackford Lakes in Suffolk. It’s was a rather warm day for October so I took my mum along for the walk.
Unusually this Earthcache gave us three logging options so we decided to try and find the info near Bessies Hide as that was the easiest to spot on the map. Passing lots of bird watchers as we went, it was a very enjoyable walk to GZ and autumn was definitely all around...lots of squirrels collecting nuts and flocks of birds getting ready to fly off to warmer climates.
We soon found the right information sign and started gathering the necessary information. Learnt a bit of history about the area too. After posing for a couple of selfies to evidence our visit, we soon had the souvenir proudly displayed on our profile page.
With the night’s drawing in, I knew the Friday before the clocks went back was one of my last opportunities this year for some after work caching - in daylight at least. Hence I decided to stop off in Cherry Hinton to grab a couple of new caches.
Both were a little on the high side, which made retrieving them a little tricky at just 5ft in height, but I got there in the end. I also picked up a TB at the slightly larger box, so I will be moving that on soon.
As we celebrated Halloween carving various scary faces into three large home grown pumpkins, and dishing out sweets by the bucket load to the young trick or treaters. I also found time to grab the Village Hall cache at West Row and finally completed the five stage multi cache, just outside Freckenham.
I had started the later back in the summer, but was thwarted when I couldn’t quite read some of the UV lit numbers at stage one. The lovely CO quickly popped out and replaced the sign, and I did complete stages 1-3 a few days later. All brilliant!
Two months later and I was back out for the final two stages. At stage four I found the little box but all that was inside was a little electronic button. Upon pressing it I could suddenly hear a mysterious door bell ringing in the distance. Off I went to try and find where the sound was coming from and soon found a cute little bird house and the final cache. Just brilliant. I’ve not come across anything like this before whilst caching. Such a great idea, I highly recommend this multi to others.
So I finish this week’s blog with some long awaited happy news. We finally have our own RYO62 ‘Congratulations’ cache! Yes, out in the South Cambridgeshire countryside, not far from Folwmere is the Congratulations Sparky_tarpi mystery cache. Spotting it a few days after publication, we quickly had it solved and will be heading out soon to grab it and sign the log.
Until next week, sleep well & don't have nightmares!
No sooner had we unloaded our luggage from the car I headed off, slightly jet lagged, to the forest around Warren Lodge, near Mildenhall. Located at the far end of the woodland trail was the last unfound cache in the Idle Hands series.
After a bit of a tussle with the dog who desperately wanted to get his mouth around it, I’d signed the log and safely returned it.
The following day, I needed another grid filler, so on a trip to Cambridge decided to stop off and grab a fairly new one at Fulbourn business park. After making the error of driving into the actual park and realising the link to the Old Drift was not open to cars, I turned around and headed a little further up the road, where it was possible to access it.
Soon on a very quiet piece of road with easy parking, I spotted the likely hint item and there was the magnetic appropriately coloured cache.
As Earthcache day arrived, it was time to get out the GPS again and decide on a suitable Earthcache to discover in order to claim the souvenir.
It’s the first time in my three years of caching that I’ve actually been able to head out on Earthcache day and I decided to head for Lackford Lakes in Suffolk. It’s was a rather warm day for October so I took my mum along for the walk.
Unusually this Earthcache gave us three logging options so we decided to try and find the info near Bessies Hide as that was the easiest to spot on the map. Passing lots of bird watchers as we went, it was a very enjoyable walk to GZ and autumn was definitely all around...lots of squirrels collecting nuts and flocks of birds getting ready to fly off to warmer climates.
We soon found the right information sign and started gathering the necessary information. Learnt a bit of history about the area too. After posing for a couple of selfies to evidence our visit, we soon had the souvenir proudly displayed on our profile page.
With the night’s drawing in, I knew the Friday before the clocks went back was one of my last opportunities this year for some after work caching - in daylight at least. Hence I decided to stop off in Cherry Hinton to grab a couple of new caches.
Both were a little on the high side, which made retrieving them a little tricky at just 5ft in height, but I got there in the end. I also picked up a TB at the slightly larger box, so I will be moving that on soon.
As we celebrated Halloween carving various scary faces into three large home grown pumpkins, and dishing out sweets by the bucket load to the young trick or treaters. I also found time to grab the Village Hall cache at West Row and finally completed the five stage multi cache, just outside Freckenham.
I had started the later back in the summer, but was thwarted when I couldn’t quite read some of the UV lit numbers at stage one. The lovely CO quickly popped out and replaced the sign, and I did complete stages 1-3 a few days later. All brilliant!
Two months later and I was back out for the final two stages. At stage four I found the little box but all that was inside was a little electronic button. Upon pressing it I could suddenly hear a mysterious door bell ringing in the distance. Off I went to try and find where the sound was coming from and soon found a cute little bird house and the final cache. Just brilliant. I’ve not come across anything like this before whilst caching. Such a great idea, I highly recommend this multi to others.
So I finish this week’s blog with some long awaited happy news. We finally have our own RYO62 ‘Congratulations’ cache! Yes, out in the South Cambridgeshire countryside, not far from Folwmere is the Congratulations Sparky_tarpi mystery cache. Spotting it a few days after publication, we quickly had it solved and will be heading out soon to grab it and sign the log.
Until next week, sleep well & don't have nightmares!
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