I needed to find a cache to fill in a blank date on my caching calendar and as I had a Dental appointment half a mile away this was the cache I went for.
An easy enough find as it’s a big enough green pole !
Only one more date to fill in August for a 7th full month, and that day is August Bank Holiday Monday so I should manage to not forget to go for a cache that day
As not everyone can go to the Mega to get their ‘Socializer’ souvenir for their 7 Souvenirs of August there are many events organised up and down the country in August to allow people to qualify for the souvenir. Grayglove and The Booshaws had arranged one at The Turf pub in Bradford for the Monday night. A good turn out for a weekday evening event made this an enjoyable affair with lots of people to talk to
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The day after the mega we decided that while in Ayr we ought to visit Alloway (an Ayr suburb) and the area’s most famous son… Ayrshire is proud to be the birthplace of Robert Burns, Scotland’s National Bard. Globally revered, Burns’ works are renowned for their portrayals of everyday 18th Century life, his love for the “Lassies” and his staunch belief in the equality of Man… The whole Burns thing is a bit like Stratford and Shakespeare, though Burns has a bigger Heritage Centre ! Continue reading
The third UK mega I have been to, the first was cache #2000, the second cache #2750… I suppose I really should have made more of an effort to get this years Mega to be cache #3400 as I have worked hard in previous years to get Mega caches to be round numbers (Halloween last year was #3000) I did look briefly about 5 weeks beforehand at making the Mega #3500 but as I am still suffering from not being able to walk far it would have involved a lot of petrol and a lot of trips getting 10 – 12 caches a time to get to #3500… maybe by the Halloween mega this year, 12 weeks to get 75 caches doesn’t seem to hard… maybe I should go for 3600 or even 3750 as the Halloween target
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Last August Geocaching.com came up with this idea of giving you a ‘souvenir’ (basically a virtual sticker on your GC.com profile) for every day in August that you found a cache… this was stupid as far as I was concerned so I deliberately cut down on caching during August 2013 to avoid getting these souvenirs.
This year for the August promotion they ran a thing called “The Seven Souvenirs Of August” to wit – “Find specific geocache types and earn six unique souvenirs for your geocaching profile. Once you earn all six, you’ll be among the super-cachers that unlock a special seventh souvenir.”
This still wouldn’t have had any appeal to me except that the UK Mega Event was in Ayr on 2nd August, so on Friday 1st August I had a 250 mile drive to do… Could it be possible to get all the Different cache types and get all the Souvenirs on day 1 of August ? of course it could, and it only took me about 30 extra miles to do so. Continue reading
30th July 2014 – Jack’s Washburn View GC566WK – cache #3376
I needed a cache to fill in the last blank day on my caching calendar, and this was the nearest driveby to home, so became the one. The cache is called Jack’s View not because of any person called Jack, but because it is on Jack Lane
A sixth full month. Continue reading