Conversation With CacheZilla - OBGCP84

CacheZilla returns for our Christmas special. She helps BananaSource with accents and answers WashKnights 20 Geocaching Questions - check out his blog at washknight.wordpress.com.

Below are the questions:

1) When and how did you get into Geocaching?

2) Do you remember your first find?

GC17AGB CW #2 Calverton/Woodborough circular by ken.brown66

3) What device(s) do you use for locating caches?

4)  Where do you live and what is your local area like for geocaching? (Density/quality/setting etc)

5)   What has been your most memorable geocache to date, and why?

6) List 3 essential things you take on a geocaching adventure excluding GPS, pen and swaps

7) Other than geocaches and their contents, what is the weirdest thing you have discovered whilst out caching?

8) On a scale of 1 – 10 where 1 is I am obsessed by numbers and 10 is I am all about the experience and the quality of each individual cache.  Where do you put yourself?

9) Describe one incident that best demonstrates the level of your geocaching obsession

10) Have you picked up any caching injuries along the way?

11) What annoys you most about other geocachers?

12) What is the dumbest thing you have done whilst out caching?

13) What do your non-caching family and friends think of your hobby?

14) What is your default excuse you give to Muggles who ask what you are up to or if you need help

15) What is your current Geocaching goal, if you have one?

16) Do you have a nemesis cache that despite multiple attempts you have been unable to find?

17) What 3 words or phrases best sum up what Geocaching means to you

18) What prompted you to start blogging about Geocaching?

19)  Which of your own blog entries are you most proud of?

20) Which other Geocaching blogs do you enjoy reading?

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Muggles Galore - OBGCP83

This Week..

Who’s that trip trapping over my bridge

Muggled while NOT Geocaching

A Moan-A-Lot exclusive

Climb a mountain from your armchair

Last Week..

GC5YEGQ - KIKUCHIS KASTLE KACHE by Kikuchis. Periscope video: http://www.ohbeep.com/kastle (Doctor D manages to insult ‘muricans)

GC3H3TD - Phooning in Derby by Grant & LisaX

GC5DR7B - Off Beam by TeamSummers1. Periscope video: http://www.ohbeep.com/derbymicro (More offensiving)

https://youtu.be/K9iR6sLwDKY

Discussion about How To Fix Geocaching blog post on www.ohbeep.com - go to www.ohbeep.com/fixgeocaching to read the full post. Main complaints we’ve noticed from Geocachers:

• Traditionals aren’t what they used to be
• New geocachers are to blame for the poor quality of caches hidden
• New cachers don’t know what they’re doing
• New cachers ask stupid questions
• Established cachers are cliquey and unwelcoming

Ask Dr D..

From Brilang

Dear Dr. D. Is Wales a separate country from England? Why/why not? Are there border guards & crossings?

From StridentUK

You’re going for a “troll” cache under a footbridge. You touch the container just as you lose your footing and... plop… the cache falls straight in to the fast moving stream and starts bobbing down the river.

What could you do? (What “should” you do?)

Dumb Stuff Geocachers Do..

Get muggled during a Periscope recording showing a cool #sightsofgeocaching.

GC43CQN Hard Boiled Egg for Tea by cerises and Team-Triplet

Periscope videos:

http://www.ohbeep.com/muggle1

http://www.ohbeep.com/muggle2

Also going out Geocaching, at night, without a torch whilst also Periscoping for all to see the dumbness.

GeoPauls Video Of The Week..

#blamemoanalot..

A rare moment caught on film. Moan-A-Lot smiling. Even rarer, Moan-A-Lot dancing. Thanks to Kathryn Trevor for sharing this with the whole of Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/kathryn.trevor/posts/10156316023295331

GGH Tips..

Want to watch the journey of a #Geocaching.com trackable? You can click on the the "View in Google Earth" link from the trackable's page to download a KML file which opens in Google Earth allowing you to fly along the stops. That was just one of the many fun topics in "GGH 162: Randomize XXXI."

http://cacheamaniacs.com/ggh-162-randomize-xxxi

Ey Up Me Duck Challenge/

Our attempt at the November Challenge failed miserably.

www.ohbeep.com/meetingplace

 

GC5M9RH - Memories Series – Our Meeting Place (re-sited) by Ey up me duck

 

Decembers Challenge

For those in Notts, they have to find 2 of the new Christmas caches that are going out daily. For others, 2 caches with Christmas related words in title.

From Lucie Meelen

Hello lovely lads. Here is my entry for the Christmas-related Cache Challenge. Someone has to go for the religious side of Christmas, and it might as well be me.

So my two are "Christchurch" (how much more Christmas-related can you get?) and "Father, Son and Holey Post". And just in case you're not at all religious and/or a Life of Brian fan, I realised when doing the screen shot that my next cache could also be construed as Christmas-related! "Brian Revisited".

Thank you and a very happy Christmas to you both and the rest of the family. smile emoticon xxx

Patreon..

Thank you DarryW4 and Gary Robbins for their support of the show

News..

Reported bomb found outside Rohnert Park gym turns out to be geocaching stash (From pressdemocrat.com)

Mountain Day marked with release of Google Street View images of Snowdon (From grough.co.uk)

Armchair mountaineers can now make the journey to the top of Wales’s highest peak from the comfort and warmth of their homes.

Snowdon’s main paths are among those that can now be seen on Google’s Street View service.

Geocaching on Emmerdale (BananaSource actually had to scrub his ears and eyes with bleach after watching this)

Feedback..

From Tony Liddell

 

Dr D’s Facts of the Uselessness..

New York build on Bristol

Nylon named after New York and London

Channel tunnel could have been built 100 years ago

The Obligatory Doctor Who Bit..

14 brilliant Easter eggs you might have missed in Doctor Who series 9 (From radiotimes.com)

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Conversation with StaticJay

Geocache in Croatia Jamie mentioned:

GC322MF - Zadar Sea Organ

https://youtu.be/myV3E9uREuI

Jamie is falling our with Ingress, we also have a discussion about its future.

Sarah Murphy has arranged an event for our visit to Ireland in January GC67PPQ Oh Beep! & StaticJay Come to Bray

Who will we eat first in Ireland in a survival situation?

Pinhole cameras

https://youtu.be/wtZOWEB_wcI

GoPro cameras

Osmo cameras - my mistake, during the recording I called it an Osme camera

Geocaching.com intro app - they've taken a previously buried feature from the paid app and put it front screen on their intro app. This is the ability to drop in to your devices navigation app and have turn by turn guidance to the cache ground zero.

UK Geocaching Podcast - episode mentioned Pod 49.5 – The Rock Chalk Chat!

Discussion about new geocachers and people blaming them for everything.

James first cache GC11XQQ - Lurgan Park No.1 - Squirrels Hideout

Beer mentioned in the podcast Old Golden Hen

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Did we cause a bomb scare? - OBGCP81

This Week..

Follow up on our Wherigo adventure

UK have idiot muggles too

Did we cause a bomb scare?

Doctor Who beer

Funny street names

Last Week.. 1:08

On episode 80 (www.ohbeep.com/80) you will have heard us out and about doing a Wherigo (Tempus Fugit), which we didn’t find due to the app crashing.

We checked the previous logs and it seems that we weren’t the only ones who it crashed for. Seems it happened in the same stage for a number of people, using different devices on the hunt.

Shout out to Sarah Murphy (aka The Geocaching Junkie) who has a very good Geocaching related blog.  As requested by Moan-A-Lot.

Cache On Wheels has also joined the Periscopes. Expect some deep dive information filled scopes.

Ask Dr D.. 7:09

I have a question for Dr D if he doesn't log his finds, how does he keep track of which caches he has already found?

Keep up the great work guys :)

Look forward to the next podcast,

Bye

Damian

There may be a competitor for Ask Doctor D...in the form of Dear Geocache Guy

https://youtu.be/eb1LofWmt4w

Dumb Stuff Geocachers Do.. 13:14

From Geolumpiz 2016

When you realise you walked straight past a possible FTF on a #geocache while doing a series

 

GeoPauls Video Of The Week.. 14:43

Geocaching | T5 compilation #5 by tehjimos

https://youtu.be/-ljoTDP5IFo

GGH Tips.. 15:56

A bit different this week. DarrylW4, co-host of GeoGearHeads, has been playing with the Apple Watch and a couple of Geocaching apps.

https://youtu.be/MR8JKi7XIQE

Ey Up Me Duck Challenge/#blamemoanalot.. 16:57

November Challenge:  

To Find either 1 cache in another country or 2 caches in 2 counties

Entries from Eric Beal and Lucie Melen

From Eric..

We are entering the eye up me duck challenge this month with two caches in two different county. The first is -GC65JZT- Stockton Springs 8  that is in Waldo County, Maine.

The second is -GC1M8P1- Glover's wig that is in Cumberland County, Maine.

Glover's wig cache was out last cache to get for completing the Fizzy Challenge which I sled down the hill and ripped open my finger nail, while my wife was rapping it up I wish MoanALot was there so I could blame him.

Thanks for a great podcast,

Eric Beal

Decembers Challenge

For those in Notts, they have to find 2 of the new Christmas caches that are going out daily. For others, 2 caches with Christmas related words in title.

News.. 26:25

Geocaching.com making reviewers reveal themselves? This was discuss on episode 427 of The Geocaching Podcast. Our view:

• How will this be enforced?
• Why just new reviewers?
• Why not give existing reviewers a period of time to decide if they want to carry on under the new rules or step down?
• Why make them reveal themselves anyway? Seems like trouble waiting to happen.

Police confused by 'concerning' item in 'worrying location' - turns out to be a geocache (From www.falmouthpacket.co.uk).  Oh the shame, its in the UK.

"For geocache enthusiasts out there, please continue to enjoy yourselves but do think about the item your are leaving and make sure it is marked as a geocache, the contents can be seen and be sure it cannot be mistaken for something harmful.

"Finally think about where you are placing it and who might need to know it is there."

Speculation about the "worrying location" included a rabbit hole or a water drainage system, possibly in Penrose woods, while one commenter said the "device" looked like " three tins of beans in some fishnet stockings."

There has been a bit of a bomb scare on one of the GWW Series caches, we did a couple of weeks ago (check www.ohbeep.com/79 to hear our adventures from that series). The cache in question is No Re-Morse GC5VQ7E. Note from the CO:

An update: Notts police have this cache in their possession and will be returning it to us sometime this week, this cache will be moved as it was muggled in it's recent location and reported as a bomb *sigh* please hang in there while we try and rectify this and find a new place to hide it

Feedback.. 37:30

From StridentUK

From Moan-A-Lot

Also from StridentUK Residence of Butthole Lane Dump Their Street Name

Where we’ve been/Where we’ll be.. 41:27

BananaSource appeared on a special Caching In The North West episode (LANMonkeys Geocaching Summit 2015)

https://youtu.be/oQ2g2ytb_AU

BananaSource will also be on a special Cache and Release podcast on 13th December.

On December 24th (US time) BananaSource will also be on GeoGearHeads, joining Darryl, The Bad Cop and Scott Berks to discuss Live Streaming

Dr D’s Facts of the Uselessness.. 45:30

Turn your Xbox 360 in to an X Box One

The Obligatory Doctor Who Bit.. 46:35

Capaldi to stay on for another year as the Doctor (From mirror.co.uk)

"Peter is keen to complete three years playing the Doctor to round off his storylines. That will take us until the end of next year. After that, who knows?”

However, the new series might be made up of several feature-length episodes rather than 13 shows.

Full size Lego Tardis www.radiotimes.com

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Tempus Fugit (Wherigo) - OBGCP80

We were going to record a normal episode, but decided to go out and attempt a Whereigo. The Whereigo we attempted Tempus Fugit Created by: RascalGaskells.  This episode is another out and about, travelling through time exploring the history of Leicester.

2:45 Thoughts before going out and attempting the Whereigo..

Trying to use the app to download a Wherigo - won’t allow you to select the pocket pc download.

Logging in to the Whereigo app was hit and miss, eventually allowed me to.

On the website, apparently my UK postcode isn’t valid.

I was able to finally download the Wherigo I wanted.

Getting the cartridge to the phone was easy using Apple air drop - a matter of seconds.

Overall impression - you have to REALLY want to do a Whereigo to put yourself through the frustration that is the app and the website.

11:12 Out and about audio commences

Periscope Videos…

The videos also contain some bonus content, not covered in the podcast itself.

https://youtu.be/IQoLaybuzTk

https://youtu.be/X5TZQ0-zMS4

https://youtu.be/wNkLUqcffyo

Photos…

[slickr-flickr tag="tempus"]

ohbeep.com/tempus

Links mentioned in the podcast..

storyofleicester.info

docmediacentre.org

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The GWW Geocaching Series (feat Moan-A-Lot & Silent Searcher) - OBGCP79

Ey Up Me Duck Challenge..

Octobers winner Anteaus

 

Scott Berks

Gave ya three in case you thought I might be reaching with one of them.

Blob-Fred J Dukes

GC3RWJ4

The Blob was a horror movie in the 50’s. Horror goes with Halloween.

W.T. Evil

GC2012P

Evil and Halloween go hand in hand

Belmont Cemetery 1881

GC1E0PZ

Cemetery’s and halloween, a perfect combination.

 

Brilang

I have just reviewed my October finds to date, and I see I have found several caches that could meet the theme of this month's challenge.

 

Whatcom Spirit Quest -- Maple Falls GC139FP (found just outside a cemetery)

R.I.P. MARQUEZ GC1WE06 (found just outside a cemetery)

Dead Men Tell No Tales Pirate Cache GC11WT2

 

Dead Reckoning GC5X3NJ

November Challenge:  

To Find either 1 cache in another country or 2 caches in 2 counties

Patreon Thank You’s…

StaticJay was FTF on our Patreon page.

Damian The Aussie got STF

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Ask Dr D…

Before we get into the main audio, there is a special Ask Dr D this week.  Recorded live on Periscope, on the way to meeting Moan-A-Lot.

This Week..

A departure from our normal format.  This show was recorded whilst doing the GWW series by -=MMT=- Seri & T907.  We were joined by Moan-A-Lot and The Silent Searcher, it soon becomes apparent where the names come from.

For a full list of the caches in this series go to www.ohbeep.com/gwwseries

Not all of the normal show is mission as Moan-A-Lot manages a Dumb Stuff moment (listen for the splash), Doctor D gets us lost and our usual Benny Hill humour shines like a beacon in the Geocaching wilderness.

Also, if you want to actually see some of the series, we recorded video of some of the caches.  For that go to www.ohbeep.com/gww

Contact The Show…

Please send feedback, questions to Doctor D, Dumb Stuff you’ve done whilst out caching to feedback@ohbeep.com or go to www.ohbeep.com/contact

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Talking Like A Pirate Makes You Burp - OBGCP78

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This Week..

Come Geocache hiding with us, live on Periscope

New geocaching location based game TapTag

StaticJay isn't happy with Dr D

HHH, from GSRP, does something dumb

Lucie Melen wants to know Dr D's opinion on all the **** days

Moan-A-Lot inspires us #blamemoanalot

Last Week..

Live cache hiding on Periscope.  Join us while we hide That Donkey Looks A Bit Pony GC658F7.  The audience helped us hide the cache and pick the D/T rating.  Thanks especially to Cache On Wheels for her advice from the perspective of a wheelchair user.

News..

New geo-location based game TapTag (From www.taptagit.com)

Rangers lead walks to Peak District plane wrecks and hidden 'letterboxes' (From www.grough.co.uk)

Let’s Look for Letterboxes, an exploration of the moors of Kinder Scout above Edale to seek out hidden ‘letterboxes’. Letterboxing, the forerunner of the modern pastime of geocaching, began in 1854.

Suspicious item in Grand Forks a geocaching device (From wdaz.com)

Police say no laws were broken, but encourage geocachers to tell authorities when they place questionable looking items in public places.

Feedback..

From CacheOnWheels 

I have just had my 3rd EC published

2nd was at Stair Hole, GC6487D Lulworth, in time for EC day

My 3rd at Lulworth Cove GC64WJ0 itself, previous one there was archived so out if respect I asked previous CO if he minded, he was very encouraging

Have you heard of the free online geology time course via earthcache academy?

I learned so much about the amazing geology and history of the Jurassic Coast that is on my door step.

If you would like to learn more about geology, you can also look at doing the free online Geology Time course through the Earthcache Academy like I did: earthcacheacademy.org

From Lucie Melen

Oh dear oh dear oh beep. You've insulted the wrong country! All that ranting about Italians...but Cadiz is in Spain not Italy! :D

From Damian

G'day Mates,

Just listened to the most recent pod cast, can't believe I was the only one to properly do the September EY up me Duck challenge :) I'm sure I will look awesome in an Oh Beep t-shirt (will send you my details in another email).

I will have to send you guys some audio at some point, you haven't even gotten close with the accent, just incase I don't get on to it in time do your best maybe try channeling Crocodile Dundee or Hugh Jackman?

Just to avoid confusing you further on FB I share an account with my wife (Mrs) Virginia (Mr) Damian Cranwell :)

Just in case you were wondering L is our daughter, making our caching name D&V&L.

Keep up the great work guys :)
Look forward to the next podcast,
Bye
Damian 

Audio from StaticJay

Dumb Stuff Geocachers Do..

Ignore the superior navigation skills of those around you - audio from Geo Snippits Reboot Podcast

Ask Doctor D..

From Lucie Melen 

I'll ask a question. Do you think it's a good or bad thing to have all these " **** days" like Earthcache day, sidetracked day, etc? 

GeoPauls Video Of The Week..

Geocoinfest 2015 - Lab Geocaches, Lighthouses and Lackeys, OH MY!

By Geocaching with Darick

https://youtu.be/32m5dlZliTY

#blamemoanalot

For persuading us to do the Hatley Heart Attack mega series.  We all need that one mad friend to push us beyond our limits.

GGH Tips..

It might sound simple, but it's important to remember to tie off your #kayak securely before exiting the boat to find that #geocache. You really don't want to return to find your boat has floated away. The LANMonkeys even shared their recent close call in "GGH 173: Kayaking I."

Ey Up Me Duck Challenge.. 

Find 2 caches with halloween / autumn related words in the title

Feedback from Anteus..

Howdy from Texas!

I’ve been listening to the show for at least a few months now after hearing it mentioned a few times on some of the geocaching related podcasts from here in the States. I think this Ey Up Me Duck challenge thing is some sort of contest… shoot, I don’t know, I can only understand Mark most of the time, and not a word of what Doctor D says! ;) So I think I’m submitting my entry for October! Here goes:

I found two caches with ghost in the title and actually placed one with the word ghoul in it! The first cache I found was GC64MRE, “Ghost Stories: Glow In The Dark Under The Tree” and I was actually FTF! It was about 350 feet away from the posted coordinates but the hint got me to where I needed to be. The other cache was GCB5F0, “Ghost Children” which is a virtual at a local haunted location where the ghosts of the children killed in a collision with a train are said to push cars off of the tracks. 

I also placed a cache over the weekend… an idea I sort of got from listening to Geosnippits. I 3D printed a zombie hand and had my wife paint it to look all gruesome… I then placed it outside of a cemetery where it looks to be reaching up out of the dirt with a bison tube stuck on one of its fingers. It’s GC6596A, “The Lost Cemetery of Alexander the Ghoul”.

Oh and what the heck does Ey Up Me Duck mean?! Keep up the offensiving! Oh yeah, and I too am a Doctor Who fan… well, a convert of the last year or so. Almost caught up to the 12th doctor.  

Anteaus / Jeff Arbaugh

San Antonio, TX

Audio from our morning doing the Hathern Trail, where we got one of the caches for the October Challenge.  The cache for the challenge was GC4F6JD Hathern Trail No.6: "Ghostly Encounter" by BalooCrew

Patreon Announcement

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Doctor D's Facts Of The Uselessness..

 Something about brains and information.  And something else he instantly forgot.

The Obligatory Doctor Who Bit..

Doctor Who Christmas boxset with TARDIS speakers (From tvshowsondvd.com)

The War Doctor is coming to the Bg Finish audio series (From bigfinish.com)

In December 2015, the Time War will rage and only one man can save us.

John Hurt is The War Doctor!John Hurt, the world-renowned star of film and television, is returning to the role of The War Doctor, in twelve full-cast Doctor Who audio plays.

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Announcing the UK's Biggest Geocache Circuit

An exclusive announcement - sent in via e mail from Marcus Maximus.  

 

At some point on Thursday in Cambridgeshire & Bedfordshire the UKs biggest geocache circuit will be published weighing in at a massive 479 caches.

Set by myself and Ross (ryo62) over the course of the last 4 months it is mostly traditional micros with a few mysteries, multis and letterboxes thrown in.16 caches have clues in (each one duplicated, so you only need 8) to the final #424 which has the coordinates to #425 in it.

You guys are the FIRST and ONLY people to know before it goes live at some point on Thursday afternoon.

Hope you get this before they go live and manage to push out a micro-podcast world exclusive!!

Have fun!

Long live Tom Baker!

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Hole In My Shoe - OBGCP77

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This Week..

This bomb is not a Geocache

Moan-A-Lot is dumb

Doctor Who features a Geocache

Tenerife becomes a Nemesis Cache

Last Week..

BananaSource and Miss Watto went Geocaching in The Peak District.  We did the TRotAM series by Paperballpark.  Here is the description

This series of 50 caches will take you through the classic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The caches are set on a walk of approx. 13 miles, giving stunning views of some of the best scenery in the Peak District National Park.

We managed just over 7 miles of the walk, with 16 finds.  We took a wrong turn at one point, which cut the walk short.

News..

Dave DeBaeremaeker's fine photographs can now be purchased at fineartamerica.com

Harry Potter invisibility cloaks are nearly a proper thing (From www.bbc.co.uk)

Roman ruins in Cadiz at risk from ‘geocaching’ (From theolivepress.es)

Baelo Claudia’s management says the practice is causing major structural damage, particularly to the stone wall of the parking lot where geocaches are hidden.

They claim that stones are being moved, causing damage to walls as well as resulting in tripping hazards.

Furthermore, they intend to take legal action to prevent geocaching on the ancient site, in accordance with the Andalucía heritage laws.

This bomb is not a Geocache (From grandforksherald.com)

The apparent bomb is not a geocaching marker or some other innocuous device, said Detroit Lakes Police Chief Tim Eggebraaten.

“Whoever left it definitely wanted us to think it was a bomb,” he said.

Dumb Stuff Geocachers Do..

Moan-A-Lot loggs 400 caches incorrectly

Logged 407 caches via gsak saying I was on the bloody Langollen canal (ask Colin French how to pronounce it) when really in was doing the 360° compass series in bodmin, different country for Christ's sake! Moral of the story check your template!

#blamemoanalot

This weeks in political.  Nothing to do with Geocaching, but then what on this show is.  I blame moan a lot for David Cameron being Prime Minister.  He voted for him and now we have a man who has had relations with a pigs head as our Prime Minister.

Feedback..

From Virginia Damian Cranwell‎

Are you guys on the you might be a geocacher if page? Saw this and thought of you guys straight away 😀

The Silent Searcher is now Oh Beep Branded (Photo from Moan-A-Lot)

GGH Tips..

#Geocaching.com has an easy way to see all the stops along a trackable's journey as it dips into #events and #geocaches. The "View Map" link above the trackable's logs will show all the stops of a trackable journey on a single map image. It also lists each stop with all the logs for all the detail. Thanks to debaere for sharing that tip with us on "GGH 162: Randomize XXXI." 

Ask Doctor D..

Liberally borrowed from the #ukgeocachinghour

How long do you spend looking for a Geocache before giving up?

Nemesis Geocache...

From Marcus Maximi..

Everyone has their nemesis cache. I've had a few, but they're usually sorted after a couple or three visits and a couple of hints from previous finders or the CO replacing them but there's one that's been bugging me for several years - Sie Ihren Wagon by Wybo Lakes.

It is situated in the car park of Lidl in St Neots and I have a look for it every time I've been there shopping. That's quite a few times! But never any joy.

Last time I went I saw that all the trees had had a severe hair cut, I had a look around, checked the floor too, but no joy. It must have gone.

Yesterday I went back and everything is still very bare but I went and had a loko anyway. It was dark and rainy by ow and I didn't hold out much hope but I thought I'd have a quick look anyway.
I went back to the place where I always look first and there it was, just sitting there in the open for all to see!!

Unbelievable! This has been more of a nemesis than Oh Beep's airport cache!!!

From StaticJay

Great managed to find 1 cache and had about 15 dnfs. All the caches on the island are placed by Germans and even the easy ones are Flipping deadly!

cache hint under a black rock on an Island made of black Fecking rocks!

Clambering over said black rocks made of lava that have been baking in 33 degree heat all their lives.

Plus all the details and logs were in German.

If I hadnt had the Baby out with me I would not have quit.

In fact I am officially regestering the Island of Tenerife as my nemesis cache.

Video Of The Week..

Submission from StaticJay 

Scary Geocaching - GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Ep. 132

 

 

 

Ey Up Me Duck Challenge..

August/September Winners.

August

Marcus Maximi

September

Hi Guys,

Thought I had better get my entry in for Septembers challenge Ey Up Me Duck challenge

http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3CBHY_daniel-in-the-lions-den?guid=01f0ff7e-7c60-40ae-91da-0e72a095ed07

Daniel in the Lions Den not only does it have an animal in its name but it is by Lone Wolf plus one, so animal name in the CO's name as well, surely that's worth two entries :) 4 star difficulty but hidden in plain sight made this a quick easy find. Mind you I knew this would be an easy challenge as there is a large series called animal facts hidden all over the place near where we live, so I had plenty to choose from.

Unfortunately even with the bonus time won't be able to get August's challenge done, sadly Uni assignment don't just write themselves, o well only another three weeks to go of the semester, then maybe I might have some more time for caching :)

Keep up the great work guys, look forward to the next show.

Bye

Damian

from D&V&L

 

Hello :)

 

As the last day of September appeared we realised that we hadn't found any animal named caches so a cache hunt was needed on CG.com, the only one un-found by both @(B and I locally was  GC4Q1YC Anti-Tank Bouys (Glynde). So we headed out after dark to find and sign the log, knowing that we would be pushing our luck with this one. Anyway the cache was located and the challenge has either been achieved or we failed..... so we Ask Doctor D Yes or No :)

 

Looking forward to find out what cunning challenge will be set this month.

 

Keep up the good work

 

Karl & Alex

KAB1972 & @(B

Octobers Challenge

Find 2 caches with halloween / autumn related words in the title

Doctor D's Fact of the Uselessness..

The Obligatory Doctor Who Bit..

Doctoring The Tardis CC6VC6

Cool toy alert: LEGO unveils plans for a ‘Doctor Who’ set (From zap2it.com)

Check out this episode!

The Denim, Oh! The Denim - OBGCP76

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This Week..

Graffiti herons

An Australian finds his nemesis cache in the UK

We are official card carrying members of the I suck at geocaching association

Dr D deals with muggles

GeoPaul goes to the top of a mountain to find his 1000th Geocache

Last Week..

GC3BYZA # 5 - Winger by cas-tiger

Audio from last weeks Geocaching podcast

News..

New geocache launched mapping trail of Cambridge graffiti herons (From cambridge-news.co.uk)

They've proved a big hit since they started popping up across the city, and now fans of Cambridge's graffiti herons can take advantage of GPS technology to help track them down.

The Black Herons of Cambridge is a new geocache with 11 stops, each featuring one of the mysterious artist's creations, which people can use to help visit the artwork across the city.

 

Suspicious package is a geocache (From lancasteronline.com)

On the heels of the threat, a resident found a suspicious item near the Lampeter-Strasburg campus that police investigated late Sunday. The item was determined to be a geocache, West Lampeter Township police Chief Brian Wiczkowski said Monday.

Geocaching is a treasure hunting game in which players hide items in a container called a geocache and other people try to find the container using GPS devices and coordinates.

Feedback..

From Danno (Team_Pugatch)

Another great show, can't believe how dumb muggles from Winthrop, Massachusetts (1 town north of Boston) are and creating bomb scares.

We moved to Maine a year ago. I actually had Stephen King and Liv Tyler as customers here! Maine is great the hot summer where it's worth having an air conditioner is just 2-3 weeks in August. You can go from the ocean to hiking trails in under half an hour. There's a reason the state motto is The Way Life Should Be!

Danno
Team_Pugatch

PS
I loved the Danno song. It's a nickname I got while wrenching in a bicycle shop in my late 20s. I joke around and tell people it's because when I was a kid my mom would always say, "Dan No!" And it kinda stuck...

From Heth Bull 

Please give a shout out to my 3 nephews and family aka Java Lava. Photo added with permission.
We had great fun with them and they worked really hard raking the grass so wild flowers could grow well and that helps the wildlife, at Poole_Man Paul Weaver conservation CITO at Lorton Meadows, Dorset Wildlife Trust on 29/8/15.

There was about 20 people there, as many said, it's about quality not quantity:

And many said how it was a very friendly event, very welcoming and great to see all having fun and mixing with those they knew and didn't know - thanks Paul! smile emoticon 
http://coord.info/GC60WBM 

From Heth aka Cache on Wheels

Nemesis Geocache..

Audio from Chris Gore

Dumb Stuff Geocachers Do..

Miss out on several FTF’s close to home, so close I could see it.

Shortyknits twisted the knife :D

GGH Tips…

Puzzler26 (a noted hider of clever #geocaches in Metro Detroit) talked in "GGH 171: Puzzler26" about his experience constructing using different material. He began working with wood for its flexibility but has since moved to PVC. He's not done experimenting yet as he's been playing with caches made from composite decking material. It's a continuing process to find what works and what doesn't and he's happy to share his experience. Are you sharing yours? http://cacheamaniacs.com/ggh-171-puzzler26

Ask Dr D..

Virginia Damian Cranwell 

Tips for dealing with Muggles while caching?

GeoPauls Video Of The Week..

 

 

 

Ey Up Me Duck Challenge..

Septembers Challenge is to find a Geocache with an animals name in its title.

Facts of the uselessness..

Justin Faucette ‏@UncleBeard

 

@Ohbeepgcp I thought this might be useful for Dr D's random facts of uselessness lifehacker.com

Brian Lang ‏@brilang

Hey @Ohbeepgcp, I found a replacement for Dr. D's random facts of uselessness. factually.gizmodo.com

The Obligatory Doctor Who Bit..

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check out this episode!

That Donkey Looks A Bit Pony - OBGCP75

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This Week..

One cache 3 souvenirs

Travelbug race updates

News from the F Bomb Disposal Unit

A really offensive Geocache

GeoPaul's at the races

Doctor Who turns 50, again!

Last Week..

GC4MP47 Kelex's 300th Cache by Kelex this one cache earned us 3 souvenirs.

 

Not Geocaching Related..

We've found a new podcasting rig we'd like

 

 

 

Travelbug Updates..

Oh Beep! Where are my other legs? has had the dreaded "not in cache" message.  Last spotted in cache GCRKN4 Laguna Lookout, having travelled 12811 miles.

Southern S@m by The Monkey King is now in Greece, after spending months in Germany.  Last spotted in cache GC441Y4 Two mills, one Quarry by OMILOS.  Well worth checking out the cache page, the location is what Geocaching is all about.  The TB has now done 12834 mile.

Norfolk 2 Norfolk Travelbug Race

Doctor D's Invasion of Canada is in Ireland, in cache GC5V0X3 Kells View reloaded by Juergen + Elke in Ireland.  Its racked up 12576mi and not even hit Canada yet.  Currently sitting 6th in the race table, with 3209 more miles to travel

Whistle Stop Tour to Norfolk is en route to Austria, last seen on July 1st.  Its racked up 1001 miles.  Currently sitting 14th in the race table, with 4160 miles to travel.

News..

Garmins Opencaching.com died.

Finally a game for arm chair geocachers....geoguessr.com

Geocaching Game Prompts Police Investigation (From http://www.winthroptranscript.com)

The Massachusetts State Police Troop F Bomb Disposal Unit from Logan Airport was on scene by 6:30 pm.

A search of one Geocaching site on the Internet shows numerous packages left behind on the North Shore.

In See-Something-Say-Something Era, Geocachers’ Hidden Treasures Set Off Alarms (From www.wsj.com) - Mr Berks and Mr Smith take the stand in defence of Geocaching.

Feedback..

Audio feedback from Danno of Team_Pugatch

From Cache On Wheels

How's this for offensiving?? Did this cache today ... GC1J16G ...auf schusters rappen...(stop the BULLS*T micro) by ichel

Heth also sent this photo of a trackable she recently found..

From Eric and Virginia

Virginia and I went to the Moncton Mega Event they just had and after we crossed the border into Canada I looked at her and had to say " Canada, Canada Oi Oi" so thanks a lot Doctor D and this I can not blame on Mone-A-Lot  !  

Although I think Mone-A-lot might have been working the gaurd post on the way back into Maine because that guy had some issues. 

From karl on Twitter..

@Ohbeepgcp @(B and friends at GC5ZE5Q Monthly Mid Week in Sussex event cache - another road trip souvenir gained :)

 

@Ohbeepgcp small event, GZ co-ords gave the location of the bbq grill - hot and ready to cook

Dumb Stuff Geocachers Do..

From Ey Up Me Duck

Dumb stuff geocachers do: we have a bike rack which fits on our tow bar and can be lowered down to get in the boot. Ady has a few times lowered this, got stuff out the boot, raised the bike rack and got back in the car ready to drive off before realising boot us still open!!

We also did a wherigo near Bourne which had clues to each stage which you had to decipher in rot 13. Annoyingly it wouldn't let you copy and paste so Ady would read out the code and I'd type them into a decoder. 3 timed during this wherigo he read me the letters to the last hint!! Arg,!

 

Or do a tree climb at the mega, sped up on ropes but on the descent Ady pressed descender to steady himself - not a good idea as he then sped towards the ground back first! Luckily he was okay although the hearts of those watching weren't.

GGH Tips..

When we spoke with noted Metro Detroit hider Puzzler26 he shared his "close clues" concept. Clues are hidden around some of his geocaches with information to entertain or inform the finders. Check out that interview and get some inspiration for your #geocaching on "GGH 171: Puzzler26."
http://cacheamaniacs.com/ggh-171-puzzler26 

Ask Doctor D..

From Seb Mya

what's the dream cache he wants to find? (Tardis serving hot chocolate doesn't count wink emoticon )

Bonus question from Collin French

why my wee smells of boiled cabbage. #askdrd

#blamemoanalot..

 

 

 

The mighty Notts County were beating Aston Villa 2-1 in the week.  Moan-A-Lot asks how they're doing and go on to lose 5-3.  Had he not shown an interest, we'd have won.

GeoPauls Video Of The Week..

Geocaching at the races

www.youtube.com/MrGeoPaul

 

 

 

Ey Up Me Duck Challenge..

From Marcus Maximi 

Was the August chalenge to get 2 different types of caches published? I had a mystery published (http://coord.info/GC607Z4) and lots of trads in the Q at the moment

We have gone an alternative route with ours, using Terracaching.com

LC8DSL Jets Away - this is a locationless cache

TC9OH8 Little Donkeys - our traditional cache

Facts Of The Uselessness..

The Obligatory Doctor Who Bit..

Doctor who? Peter Cushing’s Dr Who and the Daleks turns 50

Who said what The Doctor Or Clara quiz

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