"In your hands, the birth of a new day... " (Limahl)

30 April 2008

New Hide - Cache of the Day!



A few days earlier, I had enjoyed a caching trip based from the Liberty Stadium car park. This was the view from "Matrix 1" cache on nearby Kilvey Hill.
Tonight I decided to go one better, and hide a cache in the vicinity of the stadium. to the right of the stadium you can just about make out a modern white bridge structure. The cache is a magnetic nano, placed just to the right, on the bridge but out of picture.

25 April 2008

Caching up the Tawe


Barrage Bridge Bimble; Who was here 6: voyage of the cache; Beware of trolls!!!; Cycle along the Tawe route 43; Matrix 1 (Traditional caches)


Mini Tut (Travelbug)


Swansea had long been a poor relation in my geocaching proifile. However, the pleasant coincidence of two business trips, and the recent arrival of some new caches, has put Swansea's second city on my geocaching map. My first session was based at the Marina - two quick cache and dash on a couple of micros.

The second session was based from the car park near Swansea City's Liberty stadium, in drizzle. Two micros on the banks of the Tawe, then a steep climb up Cilvey Hill to "Matrix 1".






23 April 2008

Geocelc Dau Goleudy


Used a lazy sunny afternoon to hide a new cache - "Geocelc Dau Goleudy" - i.e. "Two lighthouses cache". Two lighthouses may be seen from the cache site, namely Burry Port and the disused Whitford lighthouse on north Gower. The slightly hazy photo is taken from the cache site looking towards Whitford and the north Gower coast.



The second photo shows the cache location - hidden tightly against the shoreline, defended by small grassy mounds and some stones, shown in the final pic.

Gower Rambler


My second of two new travelbugs. This has the rather limited aim of making it to Gower, and wandering from cache to cache on the peninsula, in memory of my grandmother, "Nanny".

22 April 2008

Who was here (again)


Who was here 4: Love and cachers


Egge Addinga's knoop


Quick cache and dash whilst on business in Cardiff - another Pezzini cache in their Dr. Who series. I've found 4 out of 6 now!

21 April 2008

Lovely, ugly old town

Trackables

Luminous energy geocoin


World Diabetes Day Geocoin


"Angel Rachel" Travelbug


Traditional caches


Pillbox perambulate


Brynmill Bounty


Twisted West Cross


Oystermouth Castle


All Saints Church


Mumbles Hill Cache


Mint 4


Traditional Cache


Just a brief one here to note an epic cache and dash around Wales' second city.

18 April 2008

Free Belarus


Free Belarus is the first of two new travelbugs I have released today. Its mission is to sneak the pin badge bearing the banned flag of democratic / independent Belarus beyond the borders of what is now an authoritarian regime.
There is only one geocache and I suspect that th eauthorities would take a dim view of anyone caught with a GPS (let alone the flag of "free" Belarus) - so anyone taking up my travelbug challenge will not be of a faint-hearted disposition.

7 April 2008

Geocache UK back online


After a lengthy absence, I'm glad to report that Geocache UK seems to be back online, after trouble from malicious hackers.

Geocache UK is an independent site that "scrapes" the raw data from the official geocaching site in order to provide a full data breakdown for every UK geocacher. It comes with a funky, personalised map of every cacher's finds and hides.

My map has a few changes since I last put it up. The red cluster in south west Wales is more pronounced, and there is a new cluster in north west Wales, representing my recent trip to Bangor/Ynys Mon/Caernarfon. My two hides in south west Wales are also shown in green.

Elsewhere, clusters in Dorset, Surrey-Berkshire and the midlands highlight rogue geocaching trips of sunny days gone by...

5 April 2008

Hat-trick in Cardiff

Who was here 3: the runaway Nan-o what a liberty (Traditional (nano) cache)


Taff Eternal View (Traditional cache)


Weir off to Llandaff (Traditional cache)


Taffy the fire-breathing dragon (Travelbug)


Fotheda Frog (Travelbug)


Another business trip to south-east Wales provided a chance to notch up a hat-trick of caches in my old stomping ground in Cardiff. I was particularly pleased to find the "nano" cache, part of the "Who was here?" series by Pezzini who has a series of caches based on the Dr Who episodes based in south Wales. The nano cache was a tiny magnetic canister on a railing in the centre of Cardiff. These are notoriously hard to find, and I did it at around 07:45 am.

A brisk walk up the Taff saw me notch up a previous "DNF", at "Taff Eternal View". This was the scene of my impromptu meeting with Von-Horst below, and it was V-H who had kindly given me a tip-off to this cache, which was muggled shortly after I'd found it.

An 8-hour break for the 3rd cache, after work. This time I parked at Tesco and strolled northwards up the Taff to Landaf, and found a nicely hidden cache hidden in some logs. Overall, a good day's work which takes the total up to 180 caches - the countdown to 200 begins in earnest!

3 April 2008

Creosote Woods

Creosote Woods (Multicache)


This one had been bugging me for ages - only about 1.5 miles from home but I'd never had the time to do it. However, a warm spring day offered the chance for an afternoon jog for a couple of hours. The cache was located in a rather eerie part of Pembrey mountain. Had to pass a small traveller's camp, then into the woods. One of the clues was based on a home-made memorial to a guy named "Welly" - possibly one of the travellers? - who died in 2006, aged 33.

Despite failing to find one of the other stages, I used deduction from previous logs to notch up only my 16th multicache.