I was visiting my Brother who lives in a place called Dove Holes just North of Buxton. Looking on the Geocaching.com website before I went I found that there was a Church Micro just a couple of hundred yards up the road so it would have been rude not to go and find it. There is also an ancient monument called the Bull Ring just over the road from his house which has a geocache associated with it
I needed a cache for a blank day on my geocaching calendar – and this one was it…
9th July 2014 – gurglefins grave GC4RWEB – cache #3317
Straightforward enough find, armed with the information that GPS co-ordinates weren’t going to be particularly accurate under the trees I went to where the hint said and looked around for the other part of the hint… only one place looked the part and I could see the cache inside it from the path.
A FTF that for once I was not suprised to get… Usually there are other FTF hunters who drop everything and rush out and get to any new caches, but this cache was published 40 minutes before the roads were closed off and 8-10,000 people descend on Otley for the annual Town Centre Cycle Races – so it was only likely to be someone who lives within walking distance who could get the cache… and as there was no football on TV I decided that it was time for some exercise (I had watched all 32 World Cup matches it had been possible to watch over the past 18 days)
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