The Forester

Tiny Often Empty Park, though I don't think the town Council of Asbury Park would like that name! The vacant lots in the red ellipse were once part of the Casino next door. One was a skating rink and the other is the link to Bruce Springsteen. He used to play in the arena there. Dutch speakers would say that it was a Stepping Stone in his career. I still think Mark Knopfler is a better guitarist though.

Yup. That's a ding. It not only ended Kopechne's life, but quite certainly scuppered Kennedy's chance of taking on the family business in the White House.

A life-changing event occurred here in the 1960s.

North West quadrisphere.

£200 would buy you a couple of dozen Ordnance Survey Explorer maps at 1:25,000 scale; and you'd still have change to buy a compass as well.

They have in Germany too!

It's a language thing. When we (Brits) say "Benchmark" we mean a mark which denotes a measured height above mean sea level at Newlyn in Cornwall. In the US they mean a trig point when they use the word "benchmark". In the UK there is a virtual geocache called Ye Ole Survey Monuments where trigpoint finds can be logged as geocaches.

Usual qualifying answer needed to keep the prefects happy, but the main question is where this is.

They're working on that.

Now you're getting political.

Oh buggah! I always lose out on the easy money. And anyway, like it says at the end of the Lumberjack thing: Oh, and I thought you were so butch.

I think we have to accept the fact that some people are more articulate than others. Some people simply don't have anything interesting to say. Something similar is true of the text in cachepages. Some cache creators will just say something like: It's under a gorse bush. Others go to great lengths to do some detailed research into the history of a place or its geology or fauna. Some even set out an historical narrative in the form of a multi and produce a result which is better than any guidebook Sometimes a cache's location can have more significance to a cachefinder than to the cache creator. This can result in some fascinating found logs being written. On other occasions a cache finder may discover something about the cache's location which was not known to the creator of the cache at the time of its placement. Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I recently looked at my own found log history and discovered that my last two logs ran to 80 lines of text combined! My log in the now archived Orchard Ruins cachepage turned into a piece of text which practically amounted to an essay on the history and future of the oil industry. In view of the fact that so few people know that the location of that cache is the birthplace of the oil industry a simple log of TFTC wasn't good enough. Actually, to my shame, I forgot to thank the cache creator for his creation.

Pimply, You are Ken Russell and I claim my £5.

Typical ferkin geocacher!

Oh, go on, you tease. In threw my telly out two or three years ago 'cos I got so pished off with the fact that I was watching so many hours of shyte. I got my life back. I still have access to BBCiPlayer though and can watch good stuff if there ever is any. Looking at BBC Four's schedule for this evening on iPlayer I see: 8.00pm: The cell 9:00pm: Rich man, poor man 10:00pm: Les Paul Paul, please tell me you're not a Les. Pimply Saul being a Les would shatter so many illusions for me. I mean, I understand the sensible shoes and the severe haircut and all, but a Les? Should I perhaps watch all three programmes, but in reverse order to make sense of the sequence of your change of life?

Aww! Now Pimple's blushing.

I've just had a look at my own cachelog profile. I've only written two cachelogs recently. The most recent one ran to 35 lines of text. The one before that ran to 32 lines - with a 13 line addendum. I think I might have broken Allieballie's record. (but she's a teacher, so she speaks English and reads and writes better than I do)

I'm afraid that I must 'fess up to being one of the guilty ones. I usually do make a log entry on the webpage, but there are a few cases where I've simply forgotten or been too busy to do so. No excuse for it, really. Trouble is, if I try to make a retrospective entry I have to select a date and for the life of me I can't remember what month such finds occurred in, let alone the date. In very slight mitigation, I might point out that when I do write a log on the webpage I tend not to simply say "Done this cache". My logs tend to express a bit of interest in the cache or its surroundings or the circumstances of the surroundings or something else which has interested me in the cache and which I think might interest others too. If there isn't something intrinsically interesting about the cache's location then I probably wouldn't have "done" it anyway.

Pimply Saul was, of course, quite right to self-ding. I was amazed to learn that lighthouses were in regular use in the 1240s around the British Isles.

Whoops! Good catch, HH. In forgot to answer H'Nicks question in a timely manner. I Nicked (pardon the unforgiveable pun) the pic from the NASA ISS page which Pimply Saul subsequently referred to, before the winner of the quiz won the quiz: which was:this one. Thanks for the reminder, HH. Cheers, The Forester

Just to keep the game going, lets have another one: What's special about this lighthouse? Norwegian speakers and native code breakers are excluded, as should be usual. Usual guff about nearest cache applies, as is de rigeur in these things.

Rjukan gets a double ding. One for getting the city right, the other for recognising my Norwegianness in naming the piccie. So far as I'm aware, Seoul is the world's only(*) eponymous city. Seoul means "Capital" in Korean language. It's the second largest metropolitan area, by population, in the world. (*) Schittsville, Arkansas isn't a city.

HighlandNick, I'll tell ye's efter.

Time for some wee clues. Northern hemisphere; Eastern hemisphere. That rules out 75% of the Earth's surface. A big city, very big. That narrows it down a lot.

As the Dinged has thrown the game open, and as no-one has put up a new one: Time for some nightcaching, methinks. Name the city, and for techie qualification purposes, name one of the most central caches there.