Caching in Bath
Geocaching Journal | My adventures with Geocaching
by Barb
3y ago
I have just found this post in my drafts, although written in May I am posting it anyway. The weather in May this year was very good, lots of dry days with sunshine so lots of caching. May 2nd was Blue Switch Day – the day US satellites were made available to everyone so there was a souvenir to gain. I decided to go Bath as I had 699 caches and wanted to get Church Micro 7500 – Bath Abbey for my 700th as mentioned in my previous post. As I had worked out the co-ordinates from my previous visit I looked to see exactly where the cache was so parked in a nearby car park, we walked to GZ using my ..read more
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Milestones
Geocaching Journal | My adventures with Geocaching
by Barb
3y ago
I have not blogged for ages and was thinking it’s about time I wrote a blog post so that my readers do not think I have disappeared while out geocaching, then Washnight (https://washknight.wordpress.com) popped up in my reader with a list of stock reasons why he/people stop blogging  – so just read the list and pick one, there is not one particular reason although I have taken on two volunteer jobs, mostly computer work, but it has been keeping me busy. My geohound and I are still geocaching regularly, I choose places to go where we can enjoy a walk and get a cache or caches along th ..read more
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500 caches
Geocaching Journal | My adventures with Geocaching
by Barb
3y ago
This summer I reached 500 caches!  To me this is a great achievement. I know that  some people are able to reach 500 in a short time but for me it has been quite a journey. I started geocaching in 2010 and by 2013 I had reached the grand total of 34 caches, I have a big gap of almost a year in 2012 – 13 due to a back problem when I did no caching at all. You can read about my first ever geocache here – it was quite exciting! In 2014 I found a total of 33 caches so I was improving!  In reality it was time that prevented me as I was working full time so only had the weekends to ca ..read more
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A New Geohound
Geocaching Journal | My adventures with Geocaching
by Barb
3y ago
I now have a new geohound, another greyhound – once you have had one greyhound – her name is Katie and is a youngster at 3 years old. I decided her first geocaching trip would be a local walk to find one cache.  I had completed the rest of the West Shepton Stroll series last February with Tara but we didn’t look for the last cache as the mud was knee deep.  So to finish the series all I had to find was West Shepton Stroll – Ridge Lane.  I knew it was a quiet lane and would be perfect for a walk with a new dog as there would be few distractions, Katie is quite nervous when meetin ..read more
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An update
Geocaching Journal | My adventures with Geocaching
by Barb
3y ago
I stopped blogging after my dog died in April, I was very upset and just didn’t feel like blogging.   I have continued to go geocaching although it was not the same without my geohound. The following are the highlights of the past few months caching. West Wells Wander was a series of 13 caches near the city of Wells, I say was as they have now been archived which is a shame as it was a really good walk.  We did the walk in three stages as I cannot walk long distances, even then one of the walks turned out to be 4 miles which was really a bit too far for me and it took a long time to ..read more
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Back to the Tunnels
Geocaching Journal | My adventures with Geocaching
by Barb
3y ago
I found this post in my drafts from April so I am publishing it anyway. My son was visiting and as it was a lovely sunny day we decided to go for a walk in local woodlands.  As he had not found the geocache in the old Somerset and Dorset railway tunnel we decided to go back there. You can read my post about my previous trip here: https://barbsview.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/the-tunnels/.  Also there were a few more caches that we hadn’t found in the area. I enjoy walking along the old railway trackbed as it is always flat, it is a very pretty area and what is strange is so few people w ..read more
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Urban caching
Geocaching Journal | My adventures with Geocaching
by Barb
3y ago
Most of the caching I do is in the countryside or the small town where I live but last week was my first foray into caching in a large city. Goodness, urban caching is so different! So many muggles around!  It was so different wandering around streets because you follow the GPS and there are so many obstacles in the way such as houses, walls, bridges!  We ended up walking further than we needed to as unlike the countryside you can usually within reason follow a straight-ish line. It was different but I enjoyed it.  Tara geohound got rather tired and it took her a couple of days ..read more
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Puzzle caches
Geocaching Journal | My adventures with Geocaching
by Barb
3y ago
During the winter months when it has been raining and blowing gales I have been solving some mystery/puzzle caches.  Quite often I go to the page of a puzzle cache and just shake my head as I do not know where to start.  I have found some of them I can solve and up to now I have solved 10 puzzles but I have only ventured out to find one of them – Can you See it! The puzzle was Magic Eye pictures which I have always been able to see without any problems so it was easily solved. The cache was 2 miles away and I ended up going twice – the first time it was snowing heavily so I ..read more
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February – part 2
Geocaching Journal | My adventures with Geocaching
by Barb
3y ago
My next geocaching outing with my sister was to the village of Oakhill where there are 3 church micros, two of them multis.  One of them Church Micro 6190 – Oakhill URC is now split into 2 private dwellings – I went marching up the driveway to take a photo and realised when I got to the locked gate that it was no longer a church.  For the question we had to walk up a nearby road to get the answer.  The actual cache was half a mile away with a steep hill to climb. Oakhill URC The next multi was at the CM 6114 – Methodist church – no photograph as it would be a spoiler! Aga ..read more
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February – part 1
Geocaching Journal | My adventures with Geocaching
by Barb
3y ago
February was a month for Church Micros.  It wasn’t planned but most of the caches I found were church micros. The month began with a visit to the village of West Pennard, 3 caches in total around the village.  The first was West Pennard Wander, I took Tara into a field on my own to find this one as my sister would not walk through the mud!  We found the cache easily and there were good views towards Glastonbury Tor. View to the Tor The next cache was W.M #9 We shall remember them – West Pennard, I didn’t realise there was a War Memorial series I will have to watch out for more ..read more
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