Geocaching

[Edith Bacon]

Which app do you use, Tex?

[Ruby]

Just the official one, Edith. There's a free one called Geocaching Intro and one you pay a couple of quid for that is slightly better. They are absolutely fine for finding and logging 99% of caches. I think if you are mega serious about it then you might want to use something else as well.

[Ruby]

I might make you come with me. There's one I want to do on the borders. Near a pub. A pub that does good food.

[Edith Bacon]

You can show me how it works!

[Edith Bacon]

Geocaching, I mean. I know how pubs and food work. As my hips and reputation can attest

[Texaco Shirley]

If you're on android get c:geo. it's free and has full features.

For iPhone the official intro app is free but limits the amount of caches you see and you can't save caches offline. The full app costs £8 and includes everything but rumour has it they're phasing it out in favour of the free one so might not be worth paying out.

I have the full iPhone app. Really serious cachers have dedicated GPS units instead of phones but I don't feel the need. Yet.

[Texaco Shirley]

We found a brilliant cache today. It was a puzzle inspired by Angels and Demons and involved wandering round Bath collecting clues off various buildings. The actual cache was in the reference library and was a boxfile just left on a shelf in the corner next to an encyclopaedia of law.

[Edith Bacon]

That sounds great, Tex. Are the librarians in on it or is it just luck that they didn't consider it a bomb threat?

[Texaco Shirley]

I think some of them know but based on previous logs some don't appear to.

[Cerise]

The Green Man is on his way!

[Texaco Shirley]

[Ruby]

Oh wow!

[Texaco Shirley]

I hope he goes somewhere good

[Texaco Shirley]

Has he moved yet? Now? How about now?

[Texaco Shirley]

Today I've retrieved a small dog key ring TB. He's trying to get to Germany but has actually been sitting in a plastic bottle just outside Witham Friary for 10 months. He's going mouldy, I might have to wash him.

[Ruby]

Give him a rinse in some Milton.

[Texaco Shirley]

He's been shoved in with a hot wash

[Texaco Shirley]

Update: he looks mould free but still smells damp and the cord holding his key ring on has broken so now I need to do sewing as well. I should have left him there. And! And I had to help steer a runaway cow into her field while I was collecting numbers. (I didn't really do much but the cow looked mental and I was a bit nervous).

[Ruby]

The Green Man is in London! I bet he's not a million miles away from a Turtle. Enfield.

[Texaco Shirley]

That's a big move

We've done a virtual and an earthcache today, both at Stonehenge. They were good but haven't helped me move the 3 travel bugs I have now accumulated, all of which need quite a big cache. Which reminds me, I need to sew one back together.