Did not find...Puzzle cache:
Llanelli's heritage (Puzzle cache) (Llanelli)Multi-cache:
Woodfield Wander (Blackwood)Regular caches:
Taff Eternal View (Cardiff)Parc Cwm Darran Regular Cache 2 (Bargoed)Parc Cwm Darran Regular cache 1 (Bargoed)Parc Cwm Darran Micro Cache 2 (Bargoed)The Zodiac Series - Libra (Chirk)Robert Owen's Park (Newtown Part 1)Eglwys Dewi Sant (Newtown Part 6)The Bridge over the Severn (Newtown Part 5)Barking Under the wrong tree (Aberystwyth)Allt Glais (Aberystwyth)Dau Bont (Aberystwyth)Dylan Thomas - Under Milk Wook (Newquay)Recent weeks have been very kind in geocaching terms. However, it would be wrong to suggest that it has been a honeymoon period of easy cache finds without any struggle. Whilst my caching has led to good finds in new exotic locations, several hunts of late have ended up with the tell-tale blue sad faced icon signifying a "DNF" (Did not find).
In one location, I found a haul of drugs "gear" which I reported to the police. This ranks (along with the rat in Pembroke) as my most disconcerting geocaching experience to date.
In other locations, I have not given up altogether. For example, opportunities will probably arise in the future for the two caches on the hillside between Aberystwyth and Clarach, also my "nemesis caches" of Dau Bont (Llanbadarn Fawr) and the Dylan Thomas micro in Newquay - fixed somewhere on a metal bridge. Recent finds at "Swansea Iron Bridge" and "Yr Eglwys Blwyf" in Newtown - both improbably quirky micros - always means that there's hope of turning some of those blue sad faces into yellow smiley ones.
DNF turns into impromptu geocaching convention
Geocoin and Pin Club Geoocin
Geotag Geocoin
Geofest 2007 Attendee Geocoin
"Holder 1 Geocoin"
Travelbugs (x6): "Witch-Hazel"; "Little Whisky"; "Downhill Biker"; "May-Bee"; "Timothy the Tiger"; "Guardian of Victoria Tower, Castle Hill".Finally, a happy tale of one of my recent DNF adventures, at a cache in Cardiff last week. I met both members of "Von Horst" geocaching team whilst searching for "Taff Eternal View", a new cache in Cardiff. Unfortunately, I had to abandon the search.
Von Horst made a successful find shortly after we split up.But - not before we had held an impromptu geocaching event on a nearby bench. Von Horst were carrying a bag full of trackables, which I duly logged. I was delighted to meet Von-Horst and am proud to consider them as my first real geocaching friends.
