Caching Tales

This week it was time to get active and hopefully shed a few pounds as we set off for Center Parcs with team DannyJGB.   Their original trip to the forest, holiday village last summer had ended in disaster when my sister came flying off her bike, banged her head and was blue lighted to hospital. As 3ft and 4ft didn’t get to do all the things that they had hoped to, they decided to plan another visit and this time they invited their favourite auntie and uncle along to join them.    It was a brilliant weekend. With so many activities on offer we just had a try a few including some we had never tried before. The first being the aerial adventure!    Now, anyone reading my geocaching logs will probably know I’m not much of a tree climber. I have no head for heights and at just 5ft tall I struggle to pull myself up from branch to branch. So, you may ask why on earth did I sign up for the aerial adventure? I have no idea.      As I stood getting kitted o...

With the much colder weather arriving here in the UK, it’s been much harder to get myself out of the warm house and on the trails finding geocaches. But a few days off work recently spurred me on to make the most of them and boost my geocache numbers – and get me a little closer to the big 10,000 finds milestone.     We begin with a fairly short walk in Suffolk to grab the final caches in the brilliant ‘Brockley and Back’ series. I’d started it quite some time ago and had completed the biggest chunk of the route, but I ended up cutting off a corner in a bid to get back to my car before it got dark.     The series, set by creative Suffolk cachers Campan51 had yielded some great finds – so many fun creative caches – and this last stretch proved to be just as fun.  I managed to park at the top of a muddy lane and picked up the trail at number 24. It was a clever hide, in the post of the metal railings of a bridge. As I took the cap off and began to pull, out popped...

With the dawn of a new year, it’s time to take a quick look back at 2021...and what a year it’s been!   Whilst we could have spent it getting thoroughly depressed by the many impacts the pandemic has continued to   have on our lives, we didn’t! Instead, we got out and about geocaching, on countless fun adventures, creating new memories and experiencing the very best of the great outdoors. Here’s a quick trip down memory lane...our A-Z of some of the best bits of our 2021 Caching Tales!  A is for Adventure Labs. With many new labs popping up on the map again in 2021, we’ve clocked up a fair few AL finds, including ‘Historic Hawkshead’ and ‘War Memorial American Cemetery’ - where we found ourselves in the middle of the US Memorial Day celebrations! B is for Birds…Game Birds to be exact. A brilliant geoart mystery cache series set by Jane Chick, in Drymere, Norfolk. Its many fantastic puzzles like ‘Snow Blindness’ and custom caches like ‘PHIlsophical Pheasants’, kept us...