Cache maintenance plus new cache

Today I set off to a cache that's had reportedly dnf s on it also known as did not finds. This can be a case that the container has moved over time from its position, found by non caching people or an animal has taken it, I'm my case it was the container needed drying out but it was still there minus the camo bag. I had a spare with me and replaced with a new container.

I also came across a kiln in lockinge where I placed a letterbox cache as we need more of them about, however this one is a bit more difficult than your average letterbox cache so shouldn't get to many finds.

Nook touch as pi screen

I went back to this project tonight, firstly having to charge the nook as it was dead.

Next up after an Internet search was to download searchmarket app as the one on the device doesn't work. Once this was sorted I installed android vnc and connectbot.  After this I changed the default ports and added rules on the network router and now have a nice touchscreen control for pi.

On the andriod vnc I changed the setti gs to greyscale to help with faster refresh as pulling the screen in in colour is pointless on an eink device

Shopping and caching

Couple today including one which I dnf'd but walked straight to today. The co ords took me 10m further and bingo.

Next was tesco s where we decided to use the handheld scanner, certainly quicker at the till and you can see the shopping bill as you get the shopping.

Whilst in tescos I decided to get some sudafed, nasal spray and ear drops as I'm suffering ear problems again.

This time I bought the ear drops that come with the ball so I could wash my ears out and even through ear buds and tissues showed my ears clean, one ear kicked out a fair bit of crap, no doubt from caching.  So now I need to use the drops for a few days and hopefully the sudafed and nasal spray will clear the tubes from my nose to behind the ear drums so that my hearing comes back and not feel like I'm underwater.

Whilst at the chemist I noticed they were selling e cigarettes, prices seem much cheaper these days with a disposable one that should last longer than a pack of twenty fags for less than the price of a pack, maybe now more people will switch.

More church micros and some nice places

Out with Footloose&frodo today clearing up some church micros. Footloose likes looking at some of the churches and also we enjoyed the walk from garston to eastbury where the bridge over the river screams out for an extreme cache under it.

The cache at lambourn gave us two co ords depending if you use the date on the plaque or date as it should be, however we went for the correct one and spotted the cache straight away being second to find.

Lastly we decided to pick off a trad in the woods on the ridgeway, this had made me realise it needs a good 5/5 here so maybe something to do tomorrow.

Wildwest 2013 timelapse video

After having problems on the Friday and Thursday setting up my raspberry pi, I decided to have another go and realised it didn't like the 64gb card so went for the 16gb which is about 10 hours of timelapse. I've since ordered a 32gb so hopefully that be better.

Although the weather was rubbish at times you should hopefully see the red arrows that I caught too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NnVPf3CaTY

Enjoy

Mosaic trail

Off around newbridge near stand lake today doing the mosaic trail, a lovely four mile circuit.

Some good hides and lots of different mossaics thus the name of the trail.  

We got to see blue dragon flies, wasps living in trees, dirty Manky water that frodo jumped in and also that the pill box has now eventually hit the water.

Church micros

Today we went for a pleasant walk around childrey, sparsholt and uffington getting church micros. Although I hate this along with sidetracks we thought we use them to entertain us for an hour.

Now as I see you can have series on anything these days fire stations, little bridges, etc but unlike these which are traditionals, church micros tend to be micro pots hidden within or around 500ft from the church and never in the church grounds.

When we got to uffington we bumped into the vicar explaining what we were doing he took us for a tour of his church and got talking about various things including treasure hunting, only to find he had been to dartmoor for letter boxing and earlier version post boxing.

Although a nice afternoon, I noticed my boots of a couple years have nearly had it.

Oxford canoe 5/5 conquered (without a boat)

I noticed this one recently a 5/5 cache in Oxford the owner claiming he thinks he has found a cache truely a canoe only. Well that's a challenge I like.

So we turned up to gz inflatable kayak in car and ropes so I had a quick look and set the ropes up, once under the bridge I came back up to slightly reposition the ropes and swung back under, very close to the water trying to avoid rope from getting wet. Using the underneath pipes I was able to position myself to within the cache and soon popped back out with it. Frodo enjoyed a swim and footloose had to try and replace it, after nearly losing it in the water I returned below to place it back where we found it. Thank you cache owner for the challenge.

Next we did some drivebys in sunning well and as we were not to fussed just picked and chose what we would and wouldn't do, dropping a tb off and picking one up too.

Another great afternoon many thanks

wild west part three the timelapse

With my raspberry pi computer that i eventually got running on Saturday afternoon i did a time lapse of the evening into the morning with a brief glimpse of the red arrows, here is the youtube linky http://youtu.be/6NnVPf3CaTY

Wild West part 2

The caches today (saturday)was signed as team 4sum as the ladies, footloose, jmj65 and Phoenix flame out voted me and frodo being frodo was happy with anything. My favourite cache the beast is still in my mind, will be trying to make a similar one for around here. 

The wildwest evening was made up of a huge raffle, the red arrows flying over and lots of drinking. Even the turn up of someone who has made my life hell didn't ruin things when other cachers said they would stand up for me should they start.

Over night the wind took up and the rain started and by morning we started operation evac chucking our kit in the car and downing our tent in record time. We moved on to our friends tent next, this nearly took us for a fly as the wind took hold of it damaging the poles. Next was the group next to us the Somerset smurfs. After we helped here we found my car battery flat as the heater had been on whilst we been loading the car. My car for some reason sets the alarm after a door closes and has return home lights that means every time I unset the alarm the front lights come on. Whilst this is good for night time to find the car, not very good for camping as it drains the battery. However I was lucky as roo had some jump leads.

Next up on operation evac was moo and Keith from the teddies who we helped too.

After a bacon sarnie at the brunch we made our way home via go outdoors to replace my sleeping bag which the zip broke on, get Angela a new one and ended up getting new camp beds for next trip along with replacement guy rope tighteners after two broke from the wind last night.

Now at home we are drained, what a great weekend.  Thank you to sue and John for organising an excellent weekend, lots of hardwork and despise the weather we all enjoyed it, many thanks.