April has been a very quiet month for caching. Besides the cold snap that we’ve had, we’ve also had some busy weekends with friends (muggles) visiting from Sydney and our son’s birthday. I’ve only managed to grab 7 caches all month! However, this weekend is the WWFM V in Melbourne , which I am looking forward to.
On April 19th I dragged the family out for the morning for a bit of urban drive-by caching. By lunch we had seven in the bag, two toddlers who were hungry and a wife that was “bored”. It was fairly cold so the kids couldn’t really run around between caches.
I headed south from home towards Bayswater and Kilsyth on this run, grabbing the following caches:
While grabbing Kwikwak 3, I encountered a local who told me off for taking a shortcut through private property. I hadn’t realised it was private until I got to a locked gate and a barbed wire fence at the end of the walk. The fence was broken, so I proceeded anyway but on the walk back I was confronted by this muggle protecting ‘his’ property (it was an office of sorts). I apologised, he told me not to come back. No need to as I already had the cache!
In all the rushing around, I forgot to take any photos!
PS: My bronze Earthcache pin has arrived! Now to get the silver pin!
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Completed 37/48 challenges of the game “Veni, Vidi, Vici” at CachingGames.com
I fell behind a little while on holiday in South Africa!
The game “Long Way Round” has started and is also available at Cachinggames.com
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While I was away in South Africa and during my stopover in Singapore, I managed to do a few geocaches. I didn’t get to as many as I would have liked to, but I did manage to get 3 earthcaches! I had planned to do 2 (2 Oceans – GC1H9WR and Table Mountain – GC1ABZK ), but when the opportunity presented itself for a third (Cango Caves – GC1DTQF), I grabbed it!
I didn’t have much time for caching as I was “acting tour guide” for most of the holiday as I had my in-laws and a friend with me. Luckily the friend doesn’t mind a spot of caching. I dragged him all around the top of Table Mountain to help me with the Earthcache answers. It was a mere 7C up there too and we both had shorts on!
The 2 Oceans Earthcache was much easier to log which is just as well as it was pouring with rain and the wind was howling. We quickly took the required photo with the “Southernmost tip of Africa” marker, took some notes, grabbed another nearby cache and then dived into the warmth of the car.
The Cango Caves Earthcache was by far the simplest to log. We did a walking tour through the caves, I asked all the right questions (to log the cache with) and then some photos. Thanks to Adrian for allowing me to log this (I had taken the group photo in the wrong place).
I also set a new record (albeit a personal one) by logging 2 caches on 2 continents in less than 24 hours. They were Giddy Up Horsey #2 – GC1MYNZ and Butterfly Garden – GC1HA96.
In all, March was quite a successful month. I have also applied for my Earthcache pin from Earthcache.org. April is not looking too flash on the caching front as I am yet to log a geocache!
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Cape Agulhas, South Africa
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Table Mountain, Cape Town
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Inside Cango Caves
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