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

29 September 2009

Llyn Llech Owain

Llyn Llech Owain


Have put a nice run of caches together in the last couple of weeks, including an unexpected root around at Llyn Llech Owain, photo looking towards Carmel transmitter. Tortoiseshell seems to be gathering momentum again after the GPS blackout earlier this year, and neglect of the blog. 3 years on - who would have thought.


Scout Hut Search


After finding a terrible cache hide in carmarthen (completely visible to muggles, suspiscions of drug-dealing at the site, etc), it was nice to find a decent pasty shop, selling Crantock Pasties. Mine was a bangers and mash pasty.

Back in (one of) the Heartlands


Cardiff Rivers #4 Taff-Ely-Rhymney - City Hall



Great to grab another cache in the old stomping ground last week, near Cardiff City Hall. I went for the Post Office Tower shot - Cache in the foreground, Capitol Tower in the background.

National Benzole


Have seen this truck from afar whilst driving from Cynwil Elfed to Carmarthen. I find it a bit of an eerie truck, it looks like the sort of thing that would explode on an episode of Casualty. Managed to get up close and personal whilst at the Day Out With Thomas recently at the Cwm Gwili Railway. Also did a web search for National Benzole. Mmm...fascinating.

14 September 2009

County map update

Several factors have taken theor toll on geocaching recently, most of which come under the heading "real life". Another factor was my Garmin Geko deciding to crash for good a few months ago, and a long interregnum, while I decided whether to pack it all in.

Nevertheless, 2009 has been an interesting caching year, if not a very good one in terms of numbers. In January I captured the unlikely county of Hertfordshire on my map. During the summer I have added Derbyshire (at last!) and Cornwall to the map.

Being me, I have a bit of a fetish for conjoining all the counties on the map, so the 'outposts' of Cumbria and Cornwall in the last year have created new gaps to keep that itch going strong! Part of the mystery is knowing when, and under what circumstances, I will get to cache in each county.

Oh yes - that record haul in one day in August this year means that Gwynedd has turned a healthily dark shade of blue - but unlikely to turn purple (50 caches - like Dyfed) in anywhere near the near future.



7 September 2009

Worm's Head!

No cache here, but probably my hardest earned waymark on my GPS. Here the GPS is perched on the end of Worms Head. I didn't realise it would take me the best part of an hour from Rhosilli to the very westward tip.
















Looking back along the ridge towards Gower...

Burry Holm cache!


At last - after 2 years on my hitlist, finally had a chance to do the Burry Holm cache (Burryd Treasure) which is on Burry Holm, the north west tip of Gower. This is a picture of the westerly tip of Burry Holm. I then had the opportunity to make it to Worms Head, a 3-mile run away (and then some).

6 September 2009

Most Southerly Cache!

"Wireless Communication"


The cache - my most southerly, thereby beating the Portland Bill cache from 2007, was found in a different place and on a different day to this photo. The cache was a relatively easy micro near Poldhu Cove.

This photo (mine - honest!) is of Asparagus Island, off Kynance. Apparently there is a s*it-hot cache on the island which I hope to come back for, in another life.