Range of Cache Sizes...

[GeoFamilyCharles]

Our second day Geocaching today and we remained within West Lothian. We planned to visit 5 caches today as we had to squeeze today's walk in between work finishing at 12noon and the Scotland v France six Nations game at 5pm!

 

Our first foray was to squirrel and nut's Under Bridge (GC29VZM). We had visited this twice on our first ever Geocache adventure but were beaten on both occasions. We decided to return today and, after a good rummage around we discovered the well camouflaged cache! What a relief, it was there after all

 

We knew from the description of Lest We Forget: Mid Calder (GC19MCK) that this cache was intended to be a quick find however, we were not yet aware of the vast array of sizes, shapes and colours that exist in the world of cache containers. Intrigued by the hint (zntargvp abgvpr) we began searching high and low, interrupted for a few moments by a group of muggles. We eventually locating the small magnetic container and wondered - what constitutes a quick find

 

Next on this afternoon's list was Almond Pool East (GC1BHFA). This is where we discovered how small a cache can actually be! A few of the logs had indicated that this cache hadn't been found and even suggested that it had been removed but no, it is there, it's just very small. We got a good bit of satisfaction finding this cache. Not just because it was so small, but because we knew it had proved a difficult find for others and, it was Mrs Charles' first Geocaching find!

 

The next two caches were unknown caches. We didn't know what unknown caches were so we rummaged about using the coordinates given. After coming up blank we expanded the description of the caches to find the code but we were unable to work out how to update our app in order to get the new destination.

 

All in it was a good couple of hours. We learned about the different sizes of caches that were out there and to research unknown caches before leaving the house!

 

We found another part of our district that we've never seen before and we all really enjoyed the walk along the swollen River Almond.

 

Hoping to visit some more tomorrow

 

[+zarbi&zarbibird]

Wow, a very busy day for you! Well done. And what a nice photo, you should put that in to the February photo competition.

[+Bear and Ragged]

"Unknown"

Mystery or Puzzle Caches

The "catch-all" of cache types, this form of cache can involve complicated puzzles you will first need to solve to determine the coordinates. Due to the increasing creativity of geocaching this becomes the staging ground for new and unique challenges.

 

Require a little work to solve... Either at home or on-site.

Some can be fun, some can be a right pain in the and get ignored by me!

 

Cache sizes can vary.

Micro are 35mm film cans or smaller... Or smaller includes nanos, although a lot of cache owners will class them as 'Other' or 'Not Chosen" -Although a well disguised/camouflaged cache may also be classed as 'Other' or 'Not Chosen" to hide the fact it's a sneakily disguised container!

 

Things are never 'Easy' in the land of caching!

[GeoFamilyCharles]

"Unknown"

Mystery or Puzzle Caches

The "catch-all" of cache types, this form of cache can involve complicated puzzles you will first need to solve to determine the coordinates. Due to the increasing creativity of geocaching this becomes the staging ground for new and unique challenges.

 

Require a little work to solve... Either at home or on-site.

Some can be fun, some can be a right pain in the and get ignored by me!

 

Cache sizes can vary.

Micro are 35mm film cans or smaller... Or smaller includes nanos, although a lot of cache owners will class them as 'Other' or 'Not Chosen" -Although a well disguised/camouflaged cache may also be classed as 'Other' or 'Not Chosen" to hide the fact it's a sneakily disguised container!

 

Things are never 'Easy' in the land of caching!

 

So we've discovered We're back out again today...hopefully a multicache, 4 standard caches and possibly a mystery cache to be collected (we'll see)!