Caching Tales

2020 has certainly been a year we all want to forget, but it’s not been all bad.   Whilst we sadly missed out on planned trips to a mega in Belgium; volcanoe climbing in Cape Verde and an A-Ha concert in Denmark this year, due to the ongoing pandemonium caused by the virus, we’ve still managed to have a great time finding caches in the East of England, South West of England and the United States.  But which were the best?  After much debate we agreed upon our top 10 caches of 2020 - those we found the most fun, inventive and memorable.  Here they are:  1. Don’t die hard with a vengeance.  (Mystery, Ely, Cambs)   CO: Shadyone44 & Danielk1bg. 2. Portreath Road.  (Traditional, Nr Cambrose, Cornwall) CO: Diggersdad.  3. Grand Canyon Bug Cacher. (Traditional, Arizona, US) CO: AxMaster. 4. Life’s a beach #25 - Porthpean.  (Wherigo, Porthpean, Cornwall). CO:    Spooky_Luke. 5. Welcome to Las Vegas.  (Virtual, Nevada, US) CO: ...

As a new year dawns, it’s time to look back at the past year...and what a year it’s been! I think most people will be glad to see the back of 2020!   But just before we wave goodbye, here’s a quick trip down memory lane...our A-Z of the highs and lows of our 2020 Caching Tales!  A is all about Adventure Labs.  We set our first ever AL series ‘Mildenhall Murder Mystery’. It’s a whodunnit taking in some key sights around the town. And if you solve the crime, there’s a difficulty 5 bonus cache up for grabs. B is for ‘Blown Over’.  A rather old virtual cache in Boscastle, which took nearly an hour to complete. I must have read several hundred bits of graffiti trying to find the correct initials & date needed. But it was great to fill another gap on our Jasmer Challenge grid. C is for  Covid...just joking! I think we’ve all had enough of hearing about that! C is actually for  Challenge Cache.  We’ve achieved a few this year, including the ‘200 Hidden Mo...

In this week’s Caching Tales we re-live the second half of our holiday adventures on the South West coast.   We start with a short drive to St Agnes to do a new series of adventure labs. They proved to be a really nice walk around the village taking in some less touristy features.  One of the locations was at a secret garden, which had been created on a little bit of waste land by an elderly local man. As we arrived we were a little surprised to find quite a large group of locals gardening and giving it a general tidy up.  It wasn’t long before I got chatting to some of them, and learnt more about the garden’s history and the man who created it. In return, I told them all about geocaching, and they all seemed really interested. Hopefully, we have some new recruits. After collecting a couple of traditionals, we headed out of the town to an old mining area, now a large wasteland covered in rubble. Although, part of the old mine chimney is still standing.  The core reas...