Caching Tales

Usually, when I am out on one of my geocaching walks, I barely see a soul all day, just miles of tranquil countryside, quiet country lanes, the odd squirrel, rabbit or deer, and occasionally an enthusiastic dog, who is more often than not taking his owner for a walk!     Today’s walk started in the same way, as I headed out from Girton, near Cambridge, on the newish ‘Girton Gamble’ series.  It was a nice walk in lush green countryside, even though the area was actually surrounded by major trunk roads, since the expansion of the A14. It was a bit like finding a secret rural haven amidst the chaos of the Clover Leaf junction, A and M roads and bustling city nearby.    The finds were a little tough going in places as there had been so much summer growth at every GZ, and the series has received very few visits in recent weeks, but I got there in the end. There were some interesting caches and hides along the way, including an old spade!     As I approached...

Who would have thought we would get such cold and atrocious weather this summer here in the UK! Usually by now we are all basking in some much warmer sunnier days, with the odd bit of cloud and rain in-between, but this year the weather certainly seems to be as in as much disarray as the world’s health.   Returning from my holidays, I was very eager to get out geocaching again – despite spending much of the holiday chasing down geocaches. The key reason…I was just three geocaches short of hitting the big milestone of 9,000 finds.      So the day after getting home I headed up the road to Reach and Burwell to grab a few finds. First stop was Reach where a couple of additional caches had been published in the Fiesta series – which is entirely film pots all inventively decorated.      Next, I was off to Swaffham Prior and on the way a little stop to grab a challenge cache that I qualified for early last year – GCZ team’s ‘Searching High and Low – an eleva...