1st August 2021 – Pointy Pirates in Lincoln GC9AYK4 – cache #5341

After the Flash-Mob the crowd split up and went off their separate ways, mainly to find the new Lab Caches that had been put out for both Piratemania and the upcoming UKMega, as well as the local caches own ones. I ended up in a group with Sam, Zoe and Dave (known to the caching community as ‘Sam539’, ‘Zoe94 and ‘andDave’) – the reason it is best to be in a group is that as well a more normal caches we also had five sets of lab caches to find and as you can only log into one lab cache set as a time it is easier in a group to make sure that at least one of you knows where the next location you need to go to is.

1st August 2021 – Lincoln’s Jewish Heritage Lab Cache – Aaron of Lincoln, Financier. – cache #5342

1st August 2021 – Lincoln’s Jewish Heritage Lab Cache – Hugh of Avalon, protector of the Jews. – cache #5343

1st August 2021 – Lincoln Sculpture Trail Lab Cache – Between Two Worlds – cache #5344

1st August 2021 – Houses of the Holy GC15QC1 – cache #5345
This was the first real cache we found, all we had done so far was walk half way round the Cathedral

1st August 2021 – Lincoln Sculpture Trail Lab Cache – Tennyson Statue – cache #5346

1st August 2021 – Along the Roman Wall GC9BCBY – cache #5347
As this was still up by the Cathedral there were still plenty of there people around so this was more a passed on from one to another cache than an actually found cache

1st August 2021 – Roman Around Lincoln Lab Cache – Roman Reservoir – cache #5348

1st August 2021 – Roman Around Lincoln Lab Cache – Newport Arch – cache #5349

1st August 2021 – Roman Around Lincoln Lab Cache – Roman Forum – cache #5350

1st August 2021 – Roman Around Lincoln Lab Cache – Mint Wall – cache #5351

1st August 2021 – Church Micro 3529- Lincoln Cathedral (The Pig Man) GC3EY8H – cache #5352
Another cache in the circumference of the Cathedral grounds, the Pig Man in the title is a grotesque on top of one of the Cathedral spires who overlooks this side of the grounds

1st August 2021 – Roman Around Lincoln Lab Cache – The Eastern Gateway – cache #5353

1st August 2021 – Roman Around Lincoln Bonus GC94E5K – cache #5354
We quickly worked out the coordinates for the bonus which turned out to be under an information board by one of the Roman architectural remains… however it wasn’t the first information board we checked !

1st August 2021 – Bowling Green GC49GVY – cache #5355
We headed a little way away from the Cathedral to get the next few caches, this first one was appropriately enough at the entrance to a bowling green

1st August 2021 – Let’s be avenue GC4QT1D – cache #5356
This one was a magnetic nano stuck on the back of the Curle Avenue street sign… though there were two, one on each side of the road, and of course it wasn’t on the first of them we looked at

1st August 2021 – Lincoln City Highlights: Adventure Labs Bonus GC9AYK4 – cache #5357
I’d found the Lab Caches themselves after the ’21 Mega location reveal event back in February last year, but not got the bonus at the time… Today, after the others had found the lab caches I turned it to a smiley

1st August 2021 – Fair Passage GC447VR – cache #5358
Took far longer than it should have done to find it… even when we had worked out the hiding method there were so many possibilities !

1st August 2021 – Postcards from Lincoln Lab Cache – I am watching you! – cache #5359

1st August 2021 – Postcards from Lincoln Lab Cache – Fighting Tank – White Hart Hotel – cache #5360

1st August 2021 – Postcards from Lincoln Lab Cache – Leigh Pemberton House – cache #5361

1st August 2021 – Postcards from Lincoln Lab Cache – Lawrence of Arabia – cache #5362

1st August 2021 – Postcards from Lincoln Lab Cache – The Mayor’s Chair – cache #5363

1st August 2021 – Lincoln’s Jewish Heritage Lab Cache – Steep Hill – cache #5364
A place infamously called ‘that bastard hill’ by my friend Mel…

1st August 2021 – Lincoln’s Jewish Heritage Lab Cache – Jews’ House & Jews’ Court – cache #5365

1st August 2021 – Lincoln Sculpture Trail Lab Cache – A Mighty Blow for Freedom – #### the Media – cache #5366

1st August 2021 – Gallery Gathering GC9CZQR – cache #5367
A cache hidden on the large sign for the Usher Gallery – part of Lincoln Museum

1st August 2021 – I ❤ Lincoln GC9EDM9 – cache #5368
Easy to find a complicated Whereigo cache when you are in the presence of the cache programmer

1st August 2021 – Lincoln Sculpture Trail: Adventure Lab Bonus Cache GC8XZ6J – cache #5369
I still had 2 of the Lab caches to find, but there were those of us who had been this way before and had the location for the bonus cache, so as we were passing closely we stopped off for it now rather than coming back for it later

1st August 2021 – Lincoln’s Jewish Heritage Lab Cache – Solomon Cohen, Watchmaker & Jeweller – cache #5370

1st August 2021 – Lincoln Sculpture Trail Lab Cache – Empowerment – cache #5371

1st August 2021 – Sacred Step GC2E480 – cache #5372
This would have been a difficult cache to find as the given coordinates are not particularly accurate, (probably due to the tall buildings around) but we had the benefit of a cacher who had found it before and remembered where it was hidden

1st August 2021 – Under the Flytrap GC8ZPXT – cache #5373
A magnetic nano that is in danger of falling into the water – the flytrap is the curved and spiky sides of the footbridge over the railway which resembles a Venus Flytrap (so they say !)

1st August 2021 – Lil Garden GC1FR2Q – cache #5374
A cache in a little garden, well on the gatepost at the entrance to the little garden

1st August 2021 – Lincoln Sculpture Trail Lab Cache – Obelisk – cache #5375

1st August 2021 – Lincoln’s Jewish Heritage: Adventure Lab Bonus GC90510 – cache #5376
There are a lot of alleys and cut throughs in Lincoln and this was in a prickly bush in one of them !

1st August 2021 – Take the weight off your feet. GC5XC1E – cache #5377
I had left the others as we split up and headed for our cars, this was just past where I had parked but I decided a few extra steps were still in me – As I have said many times before, I always like a cache on a bench where you can sit down while sorting out the logbook

1st August 2021 – Caribbean party night GC8HMWJ – cache #5378
The evening event on the Piratemania campsite… talking and drinking – though I was only drinking Diet Coke as I was driving back to my Hotel at the end of the night