Geocaching

[Ruby]

I have just been reading your cache logs - your caches seem to attract a specialist type of geocacher, don't they?

[Texaco Shirley]

Do you mean Pete? He's a bit stalker scary. At least he's stopped sending me essay length emails.

[Ruby]

Yes, but they all seem quite enthusiastic.

[Texaco Shirley]

i think it's because they're mostly puzzles, people invest more time in them. Plus a few of us know each other from monthly pub meets.

[Texaco Shirley]

Geocaching: harmless hobby or utter lunacy. Discuss.

[Ruby]

Eek! That's why you need to take the kids with you. The SAM would be in there like a ferret.

[Texaco Shirley]

I wouldn't have let the boys in I don't think, that's a pile of rubble in the entrance then it drops down into a sort of tunnel full of all sorts of crap and completely flooded in the deepest bit. It was all the rubbish that would worry me, there were loads of bottles and cans and I found discarded needles at a cache a few weeks ago.

[Cerise]

Did you actually go in?

I have persuaded Mr Sax that we should go to the common where the Martians landed in War of the Worlds for a walk. There happens to be a couple of geocaches there too.

[Texaco Shirley]

I had to, the stage 2 clue was in there. I got trapped in there for a while on Wednesday. It's in an old quarry which for some reason has some sort of art installation going on. I was poking about when I heard loads of voices outside. I didn't really fancy crawling out over the rubble and having to explain myself

[Cerise]

[Cerise]

Found both today and pick up a travel bug. It's a teddy bear so we'll need another good sized cache to drop him in.

This was quite close to one cache.

[Texaco Shirley]

An actual teddy bear? Where does he want to go?

[Ruby]

Oh my glob! We did those Pirate caches today and they were brilliant. Thank you so much, Tex, and you really need to go and take your small boys. I don't want to spoiler it too much but the containers were brilliant. I managed, with mashing of my screen in fury, to get the bloody app to set a waypoint so that I could find the mystery cache too. It was really really good and we saw some lovely bits of the SW that we would genuinely never have seen otherwise.

Oh and I dropped off a TB and picked up another. I feel like I'm progressing from Rank Amateur status now...

[Texaco Shirley]

Oh good, I'm always nervous about recommending things but that trail had so many good reviews. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[Cerise]

It's a small bear and he wants to get home to Norway. I think he was released in Majorca three years ago.

That trail looked awesome!

[Texaco Shirley]

I love this, also from the quarry.

[Ruby]

The TB we picked up yesterday wants to go to sandy places so we've had to plan a special bank holiday trip tomorrow. I feel a hideous burden of responsibility when picking up travel bugs.

[Texaco Shirley]

Me too. Then once they're dropped off I anxiously watch them till they're picked up again.

I'm going to try and find the last bit of a puzzle in the reference section of Bath library today.

[Edith Bacon]

I love the idea of geocaching but I don't understand how it works, with the logs and whatnot - it all sounds very complicated and I would worry about messing it up

[Texaco Shirley]

It really isn't complicated. Once you find it you select "Found it" on the app and write a few words about it.