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we finally felt well enough to go geocaching yesterday which marked a significant stage in our recovery. here are the girls singing and dancing to a cache.
the route
and another log with two of our little stickers stuck together in a jaunty way.
red (hot) october
yesterday afternoon was spent geocaching with friends, and the weather was goooorgeous.
i recon it's something to do with iceland. their financial crisis has reduced the amount of cold weather they can export and as a result we're sweltering in october.
this was a strange thing. it was a giant field full of lovely lawn. turns out it was a turf farm
all the kids carried sticks (it's a violent world out there, so the kids need to tool up to protect themselves). they had much fun splashing them in this bit of river
and we found a nice xmas fairy geoaching travelbug
as well as lovely pieceful woods.
funkyphoto - big ben bonanza
my first geocache will say something like this:
It's fairly easy to come to london and take the standard tourist photo of london landmarks like the one above of Big Ben. This cache is to help you get a slightly more unusual picture you can be really proud of.
The coordinates are for The Clock Tower itself (Big Ben is the bell inside the tower). You won't need to go anywhere you shouldn't and you probably won't need your satnav ! Nearest tube station is Westminster (which itself is a fantastic site if you arrive by the Jubilee Line).
You need to work out where to stand to get the photo shown below. To claim the cache you need to take and upload a photo to prove you found the right spot.
You'll get the best results if you take your photo in the afternoon as the sun moves round to illuminate the tower from the right direction. And if you're lucky enough to have a really nice day, get there just before sunset to watch the houses of parliament glow a glorious yellow !
Photoing tips - always take a few shots so you can chose the best one, why not include some people in the foreground to give it some scale ? if you've got an SLR camera, use a small aperture to get Big Ben and the foreground nice and sharp. Landscape mode will probably do the same on a compact camera.
Most of all, enjoy taking photos, and always look for something a little different !
spoiler:
looking the wrong way !
update: but it appears the rules of geocaching might not actually allow this type of geocache, so never mind. still, you might find it useful. or something
It's fairly easy to come to london and take the standard tourist photo of london landmarks like the one above of Big Ben. This cache is to help you get a slightly more unusual picture you can be really proud of.
The coordinates are for The Clock Tower itself (Big Ben is the bell inside the tower). You won't need to go anywhere you shouldn't and you probably won't need your satnav ! Nearest tube station is Westminster (which itself is a fantastic site if you arrive by the Jubilee Line).
You need to work out where to stand to get the photo shown below. To claim the cache you need to take and upload a photo to prove you found the right spot.
You'll get the best results if you take your photo in the afternoon as the sun moves round to illuminate the tower from the right direction. And if you're lucky enough to have a really nice day, get there just before sunset to watch the houses of parliament glow a glorious yellow !
Photoing tips - always take a few shots so you can chose the best one, why not include some people in the foreground to give it some scale ? if you've got an SLR camera, use a small aperture to get Big Ben and the foreground nice and sharp. Landscape mode will probably do the same on a compact camera.
Most of all, enjoy taking photos, and always look for something a little different !
spoiler:
looking the wrong way !
update: but it appears the rules of geocaching might not actually allow this type of geocache, so never mind. still, you might find it useful. or something
100 geocaches and counting
kezia with a disposable camera
two adorable travel bugs
geocaching
another weekend another load of geocaching. this time with one of jane's work colleagues
geo fairy
i've had this geofairy travelbug ready to go to the Fairies Hole geocache for too long. yesterday we finally made it.
geocaching
yesterday we went for a 4 hour walk on the ridgeway. we didn't expect it to take that long.
of course, it was all down to geocaching. we found 13 yesterday
i think we walked about 12km up and down hills, and kezia only needed two short carries.of course, it was all down to geocaching. we found 13 yesterday
travel bug in
travel bug out
didcot power station
and it was nearly dark by the time we finished
new year's day geocaching
this was just a strange pin thing in a post
new year's eve geocaching
another couple of geocaching with jane's parents and sister's family, one of which took all 11 of us well over half an hour to find.
thomas took full advantage of the deep puddles and his wellies
even granny got involved in the ford paddling
ooh. more geocaching. who would have thought
here's esther with a giant geocache with katie and olivia
and here they are with chloe in the afternoon (taken with my compact camera which i seem to have lost the ability to use properly!)
boxing day geocaching
muddy trip to a couple of geocaching. my mum came along for her first geocaching outing and slipped over in the mud. ooops.
more successful geocaching
esther and kezia went to a pantomoon yesterday so jane and i went on some geocache adventures. Three bigguns this time. And for the first time i collected a 'travel bug' to take to another geocache as part of an adventure. you can read more about him here
here are janes with the two other caches we found.
we also went for a lovely meal in the fantastically rustic and calm and lovely bar restaurant "The Old House" in Warren Row near/in Crazies Hill. The owner said he was having trouble getting the phone number in the phone book, so in case you found it via googling for "The Old House", it's 01628 825 861 and the postcode is RG10 8QS. You should go as it's great.
the smallest geocache i've found
it's a nano cache don't you know
geocaching in brussels
i dragged my colleague Toby round loads of geocaches in brussels in the evenings. i went to this one on my own. can you see it ? it was really tricky to get our unless you are double jointed or like lying in muddy dirt.
geocaching
mmm. think we might be getting hooked on this. we passed 4 geocaching points on our thames walk yesterday. we found two and failed on another two. the problem of doing them in the middle of a 7ish mile walk is that you can't stop for an hour and do a thorough search. but it helped break the walk up and was all good fun.
here is esther with one of the caches.
and here is a bridge where we didn't find one.
more success with geocaching
paul took us geocaching with a proper satnav. here he is with the cache.
here's a tap fitting which roves the country
here they all are on their way
and finally, we also found our first microcache.
our first geocache outing
we went on our first geocaching adventure yesteday but it was a bit of a disaster. we had a nice walk round a lake collecting clues to give us the final coordinates, but we must have gone wrong somewhere as the final location couldn't be found. oh well. we'll try another time !
still, we did find a mobile phone. after phoning the number marked 'home' and leaving copious details on how we would return it to the owner, a lady walked by looking around for something. and it was her phone. here she is walking away with it in her hand
and finally, here is the lovely meal tany and tonya provided before our adventurous began.
