Caching Tales

This week we kick off with a nice circular walk at Rushbrooke by one of my favourite cache hiders SusieAndMaisy.  If you like innovative custom caches their walks really are worth doing – you are always guaranteed to find caches you won’t have seen anywhere else.   Their latest series was published earlier this year, just as the dreadful winter/spring lockdown came to an end in the UK.  I decided not to head straight out, as it was only up the road from me, so I knew it would make a nice after work, summer evening stroll.   Finally, that evening had arrived. I parked up in the very unusual hamlet of Rushbrooke - I say unusual because it doesn’t feel like any other village or hamlet I’ve ever visited, it almost looks like a model village.  A small number of quaint cottages line either side of a very quiet concrete road. There was literally no traffic and in the middle of the road sits a stunning brick medieval wellhead, which almost looks like a tiny church with ...

The growing popularity of geo-art trails has meant that more and more are popping up on the UK and global geocaching map.  More often than not, these nice pictures on the map, are made up entirely of mystery caches, but sometimes letterbox caches are used instead. And of course, all require a bit of work to identify the true co-ordinates, before heading out to find them.    Here in the East of England quite a few have been created in recent years including HeidiRose4789 and Hollyxxo15’s ‘Mickey Mystery Tour’ series – shape like Mickey’s head; RYO62’s ‘D’oh’ series - in the shape of Homer Simpson’s head; and ‘Poshrule’s Peleton’ series – a number of bikes scattered across the Cambridgeshire countryside. Plus DanSpurs14 and Palmer28’s ‘Yoda Lay Hee Hoo’ series - in the shape of Star Wars character, Yoda’s head; and Jane Chick’s brilliant ‘Game Bird’ series of clever bird themed mystery caches in Norfolk.       Whilst I’ve collected quite a few of these a...