Looked & looked but no luck. Cold & rainy so might return when better searching weather!

:( couldn't see it. Returning after a rethink

Happy new year Mr Crow xx. Well..Having taken part in the Goldhanger gathering back in the day I still had the printout of this series so thought I would finally give it a go. After finding the second trail marker rotted away I realised this was not going to be easy especially after then noting the new way of gathering coordinates which I hadn't allow for.. ..hmmmmm. Still I carried on in the hope of some markers remaining...Along the way an inquisitive mind forced me into the undergrowth and bingo. Cache 1 found ????

I had a look here before completing my search for trail posts with no joy...Then I realised I actually had enough information to calculate this one...So, back to the likely suspect ..Unfortunately after much prodding nothing came to light...I may have been barking up the wrong tree? ????

After walking all of the possible paths and searching all of the likely spots I was more than happy to pick this one up with cachers instinct ????

You have no idea how infuriating this was, logging on at every opportunity to have yet another go and getting yet another fail.
I wasn't blessed with patience so this was added to the 'shelved' pile after about 48 hours.
I bumped into CO recently, he told me the odds were better now and sure enough on my second go I was rewarded with the three greens I needed. Luckily CO was happy to guide this technophobe through the checker as I failed at that stage too!
I was determined collecting the cache wasn't going to be a failure so allowed myself plenty of time and a decent raincoat on a drizzly afternoon
I found the cache on my second scan of the host
It is easier to spot from a certain angle
I collected the TB and left one too
Thanks for the cache and for your help!

Our second turn and we found it. So happy! Thank you. :)

Found It

????

Found it.

Unable to sign as log sheet quite wet, nice straightforward cache in great location thank you

Found it.

TFTC great cache ????

Found it.

Found it.

TFTC

Decided to venture out this afternoon for a walk and soon had the log in hand ???? Thanks for the cache ????

Decided to venture out this afternoon for a walk and soon had the log in hand ???? Thanks for the cache ????

Spotted by riceandpeas jnr. Thanks for the cache ????

Spotted this sneaky one between dog walking muggles!! Thanks for the cache ????

Fabulous views from here this afternoon but unfortunately our last one of the day ?? We'll definitely be back to continue this series ???? Thanks for the cache ????

14:05 2 January 2017. Out with blessed today getting some previous DNF. A beautiful sunny day all be it only 4 degrees. A nice easy find. Everything in good order here. TFTC

14:05 2 January 2017. Out with blessed today getting some previous DNF. A beautiful sunny day all be it only 4 degrees. A nice easy find. Everything in good order here. TFTC

14:05 2 January 2017. Out with blessed today getting some previous DNF. A beautiful sunny day all be it only 4 degrees. A nice easy find. Everything in good order here. TFTC

14:05 2 January 2017. Out with blessed today getting some previous DNF. A beautiful sunny day all be it only 4 degrees. A nice easy find. Everything in good order here. TFTC

14:05 2 January 2017. Out with blessed today getting some previous DNF. A beautiful sunny day all be it only 4 degrees. A nice easy find. Everything in good order here. TFTC

14:05 2 January 2017. Out with blessed today getting some previous DNF. A beautiful sunny day all be it only 4 degrees. A nice easy find. Everything in good order here. TFTC

14:05 2 January 2017. Out with blessed today getting some previous DNF. A beautiful sunny day all be it only 4 degrees. A nice easy find. Everything in good order here. TFTC

14:05 2 January 2017. Out with blessed today getting some previous DNF. A beautiful sunny day all be it only 4 degrees. A nice easy find. Everything in good order here. TFTC

14:05 2 January 2017. Out with blessed today getting some previous DNF. A beautiful sunny day all be it only 4 degrees. A nice easy find. Everything in good order here. TFTC

Nice quick find tftc ????????

Out with Kareninwb collecting a few caches on our to do list. We came armed with a piece of equipment we don't normally carry and we're glad we did as it certainly helped cache retrieval.?? Very peaceful here today just a lone fisherman in the distance as we walked to the cache. I'm a bit sad I didn't need the info I had gathered but pleased to tick of another RR. Cache was dry and well concealed but the container is not closing as well as it should. Thanks for placing the cache MrCrow.

Out with snoopyus today and turning a few unfound caches into smiley faces. We knew we would need a special bit of equipment for this one and duly took the necessary with us. Th e fishing lake was quiet and peaceful today and so we didn't have to worry about being seen. Approached GZ from the wrong side and had to return to find the right path. Once there the equipment we had with us was put to good use and the container retrieved. The contents were dry but the lid isn't shutting quite how it should.

Log signed and another Rally Round ticked off the list. Thanks, Mr Crow.

Yay. Tftc

We have walked the Hooker Valley Track to Hooker Glacier terminal lake. It was a bit raining, but at the lake the sky cleared so that we could see Aoraki. It was a beautiful walk with great views. On our return, we have almost forgot this cache, actually I had to return few hundred meters to find it. And it was well worth it, because the place where the cache is hidden is beuatiful. The small lake with reflection of is probably the best view of Aoraki. Thank you very much for showing us this place that we wouldn't see if it wasn't for the cache.
IN: TB

Finally found it after looking for it 3 times! Must of fallen down somewhere as we found it halfway down the hill. Put it back where we thought it might be. Tftc! :)

Day trip before 'Back to School'

Day trip before 'Back to School'

Day trip before 'Back to School'

Really pleased to see this addition to the VS series. Sadly I'm in Norfolk. Drat!!!!

Great spot, would not have come down this path if not for the cache. Also, my wife lord the container - ice cream, her favourite.

I don't make new years resolutions as I'm rubbish at sticking to them but I have vowed to complete the Essex 100 series this year. Daughter #3 joined me today and we took the dogs for a walk and explored this wonderful part of Essex that we had never been to before and collected six caches along the way.
It was remarkably still and mild for a Jaunary day. Perfect!
This was the first find of the day and probably the easiest
All good here
TFTC

I don't make new years resolutions as I'm rubbish at sticking to them but I have vowed to complete the Essex 100 series this year. Daughter #3 joined me today and we took the dogs for a walk and explored this wonderful part of Essex that we had never been to before and collected six caches along the way.
It was remarkably still and mild for a January day. Perfect!
Loved the beach huts on stilts on the walk along to this cache
We had to have a good rummage around to find this one
All good here
TFTC

I don't make new years resolutions as I'm rubbish at sticking to them but I have vowed to complete the Essex 100 series this year. Daughter #3 joined me today and we took the dogs for a walk and explored this wonderful part of Essex that we had never been to before and collected six caches along the way.
It was remarkably still and mild for a January day. Perfect!
We weren't quite sure which side to look here but after drawing a blank we leaped the wall and made a quick find on the other side
TFTC

I don't make new years resolutions as I'm rubbish at sticking to them but I have vowed to complete the Essex 100 series this year. Daughter #3 joined me today and we took the dogs for a walk and explored this wonderful part of Essex that we had never been to before and collected six caches along the way.
It was remarkably still and mild for a January day. Perfect!
We soon spotted this one but it was really tricky to get hold of
Luckily my daughter has tiny hands and was able to squeeze her hand through to grab it
TFTC

I don't make new years resolutions as I'm rubbish at sticking to them but I have vowed to complete the Essex 100 series this year. Daughter #3 joined me today and we took the dogs for a walk and explored this wonderful part of Essex that we had never been to before and collected six caches along the way.
It was remarkably still and mild for a January day. Perfect!
I really liked the natural cache holder here - made to measure
No problems here
We watched a car making it's way over the causeway to Osea Island when we returned to the path
TFTC

I don't make new years resolutions as I'm rubbish at sticking to them but I have vowed to complete the Essex 100 series this year. Daughter #3 joined me today and we took the dogs for a walk and explored this wonderful part of Essex that we had never been to before and collected six caches along the way.
It was remarkably still and mild for a January day. Perfect!
We soon found this one but it was very tricky to retrieve
The cache is very fragile, cracked and the fixings barely attached, the tube is open both ends but the log is remarkably dry. Sorry I didn't have anything suitable to replace it
Nice little hiding place TFTC.

When without a gpsr it is sometimes worth considering the options before venturing out. Of the million it appears that 238,601 values of ABCDEF give a plausible value for X.
Thanks for taking me to places I didn't know excel could go!

## If you FTF this cache, but can't log a Found It straightaway, please have the courtesy to Write Note for the benefit of others striving for an FTF. ##

Our last one of the day ?? Spotted by riceandpeas jnr. Thanks for the cache and bringing us to this beautiful part of Essex ????

Great hide, the hint is spot on but it still took us a few minutes to find!! ???? Thanks for the cache ????

Spotted by riceandpeas jnr. Thanks for the cache ????

Spotted by riceandpeas jnr. Thanks for the cache ????

Spotted by riceandpeas jnr. Thanks for the cache ????

Spotted by Mrs riceandpeas. Log too wet to sign but thanks for the cache ????

Spotted by riceandpeas jnr. Thanks for the cache ????

Another one spotted by Mrs riceandpeas. Thanks for the cache ????

Spotted by Mrs riceandpeas. Thanks for the cache ????

Managed to spot this one between dog walking muggles!! Thanks for the cache ????

Great views from here and so peaceful, I can see why someone would place a memorial bench here. Thanks for the cache ????

This ones lost its magnetism but quickly found. Thanks for the cache ????

Blends in nicely with the surroundings. Thanks for the cache ????

Our first find of the day ???? Log too wet to sign but thanks for the cache ????

Jan/08/2017 - Log needs replacing so if see this before you set out I would grateful if you could replace for me ... unless I get there first of course.

No.6466


This has been on the solved pile for so long and was well over due a visit. As I was close to GZ this morning a visit was a must. Soon found at GZ signed and replaced as found.



TFTC Mr Crow

infinson

I quite like the thrill of finding out if it's a FTF or not when I get there. It's then an adventure. If there was a note written, I'd probably not go until I was planning a few in the area then it would probably be a long time before I got round to it. Just saying. Each to their own though.

TTF at 2.20pm. Thought I would try for a FTF here due to being unsuccessful at the new cache at Essex University this morning (was pipped to the post by just over one hour).
SuperLizzy finished playing her football match at Uni, we all had a quick bite to eat, then dropped the moaning kids off and headed out to see what the chances were.
The checker hadn't had any successful attempts, so when it came up as correct I thought it might be a possible FTF. On arrival at GZ I found it straight away, but would it be or not..........??????
Unfortunately not, wasn't close, lol. Well done PuReWaRRioR69 on FTF so early this morning. Well done Infinson on the STF. A 3rd for me - oh well - still got to get one for January, eeeek!
Thanks for the cache and the adventure.
STL. Replaced as found. TB visited.
:-)

No.6464

Not the first but a resounding second to find. I had a lovely wander around the area and soon had what was required. Off to GZ for a quick find signed and returned as found.




TFTC Mr Crow

infinson

{FTF} FTF

After the FTF at the uni i set off to this one
Got the numbers i needed and did some crunching
No need for the checker here
Straight to Gz and a cache soon in hand
Pleased to sign a "Blank log" (pics taken)
Thanks for this one

signed log

TFTC

Previous log posted on January 18th.

Dipping TB






infinson

Cache 7117!
Visited this on my way to Tiptree today. Great little multi taking you to a bit of history. Final location soon found. U B GOOD at this cache setting Mr Crow!
TFTC Mr Crow

Great hint TFTC

Simple find after a fairly good walk. Stunning day today. Heaps of people on the trail, mostly tourists.

Nice little yarn, great walk. TFTC

## If you FTF this cache, but can't log a Found It straightaway, please have the courtesy to Write Note for the benefit of others striving for an FTF. ##

Second to find

All the way from other side of ipswich to get our monthly Ftf only to find we have been beaten by 2.5 hours

Thanks for the cache at 1955

See ain't just me ????

FTF at 5.20pm - Log to follow.

{FTF} Found at 5.20pm with son (GeoGodders1).
Was in the middle of making tea when I heard the whoosh of a new e-mail from across the kitchen on my phone. Couldn't get to it straight away to read, but it wasn't long before I did. Shouted up to the kids doing their homework and surprisingly Alex said he'd come with me. Off we set, it wasn't too far for us and the dot seemed to be very close to friends we have who live in Kelvedon. Struggled to park, only because traffic was ultra busy, so we ended up parking in our friends' drive and walking back. Retrieved the info we needed (what a lovely village sign) and sat on the bench to work the coordinates out with pen and paper. We had some numbers, tried the checker but couldn't get it to work (I don't get a very good signal in Kelvedon & Tiptree), the second time of trying looked quite promising, but then my phone died, so we decided just to try what we had. Off we set, to the worked out co-ords. Had to use Alex's phone as a torch as it was dark and I couldn't search properly. Found the cache quite quickly once I had light (surprising for me!), but would it be a FTF......oh yes it was :-)
STL, replaced as found. Thanks for the cache Mr Crow. Now to get back to finish tea, then to Rangers (Daughter), then to basketball (Son), deliver a birthday pressie to a friend, then collect from Rangers, then collect from basketball, plus numerous other family tasks. Life is busy, phones run out of charge (mine is a faulty 6S that is actually getting replaced by Apple in the next few days because it cuts out at 55% charge) - busy, busy, busy.

A bit of research here and a plausible plot. A few (four score and some!) checker issues but knew it must be right.

Returning from a most pleasant sortie to Mersea, I stopped nearby and signed.
Returning to the car the smell of chips ... ooooooooooooo. I'd had my cake, but not all so ate it!

TFTC. Great addition to the series.

Out before the rain starts this morning, I'd never spotted this village pump before, I expect I have always driven around the other side. ???? Soon had numbers and after a false start with the maths?? I was on my way to GZ. Totally got the hint when I arrived and a quick sign at a place that suddenly became traffic central! Definitely not a puzzle but a really nice multi. Thanks for placing the cache Mr Crow.

Without a gpsr it pays to try a few possibles before venturing out. Despite making X=1 (spoiler: it's not) I found a likely location. Nicely contained. Thanks Mr Crow FTC.

Taking a break from the A12 caches it was nice to give Poppy (our Podenco/Labrador cross) a run- being Spanish I'm not sure what she thought of the cold white stuff! Found this cache under flurries of snow. No TB in place. Many thanks for placing this cache

Hatfield12 playing at Tollesbury this morning (drew 1-1) so despite the persistent rain, decided to head off before kick off to pick up a couple of local caches, and in this area, that tends to mean another little bit of the brilliant Essex 100.

1/2. Very convenient municipal car park at the head of the trail here and I walked past a previously found cache to join the footpath. Good to have concrete under foot for the first stage, as the ground was so wet, and I made swift progress to GZ, where the cache was soon spotted. TFTC #2815

Hatfield12 playing at Tollesbury this morning (drew 1-1) so despite the persistent rain, decided to head off before kick off to pick up a couple of local caches, and in this area, that tends to mean another little bit of the brilliant Essex 100.

2/2. Made a bit of a meal of this by taking the wrong route from the last cache and having to double back further up the path. Very muddy and thorny around GZ and I could not immediately spot the hint item, so had a scout around, but there were few other possibilities so I concluded I must be in the right spot. Had a bit of a rummage in the wet debris and unearthed the cache, which was partially buried. Replaced as found, but with a little more protruding. TFTC #2816

#1768:
This one has been on the to do list for quite a while. Spent ages searching until I realised from a previous picture that it was actually underneath where I'm standing. So I locked my car and headed down. Cool to be under here, and the cache was quickly found. TFTC.

We didn't find it :(

At a loose end today so decided to head over towards Cambridge in search of a few older caches to help fill my months found grid. Along the way i visited lots of lovely villages, some stunning churches and beautiful countryside. It was mainly a driving day but I did manage to fit in a few short walks too.
It was a lovely sunny day and amazingly mild for January too Perfect!

There was only really one place this could be
I'm not very tall but managed a good poke around with a stick but nothing fell on my head
Unfortunately I think this one is missing

I thought I had worked out the coordinates correctly for this cache last week and decided to pick it up on the way to work. However, when I arrived at what I believed to be GZ it was clear that I'd made an error somewhere as the coordinates put me in someone's front garden. Searched a few likely hiding places but came away empty handed.

Back at home a couple of days later I had another go at the maths and realised what I'd done wrong. From google maps I knew where I needed to be and so stopped on my way to work today. A quick find in a busy area at that time of the day.

Thanks Mr Crow - I do like a nice village sign.

We parked at the recommended spot and switched on the GPS. Oh no polycache 1-4 not in the GPS and no phone signal. We decided to head off and hope we could spot it, but how far do we go. Suddenly after about 10 minutes we managed to get logged on to cgeo but still could not open the cache page but we did at least have how far away we were from the cache so we headed to what could be GZ. We hunted round for a few minutes thinking it was going to be a bad day. Suddenly Mr PG9 found some interesting objects but still no cache. Mrs is a bit more heavy handed and soon found the well hidden cache. Hopefully now our day may improve as we had written down the information for 2-4. Signed log and replaced as found, TFTC

Thankfully this cache was a lot easier even though it was not in our GPS as we had written down all the required information to gain the required coordinates and we had written the hint down also. It was a nice quick find here, signed log and replaced as found, TFTC

Seem to be on a roll now and really enjoying our walk in lovely countryside. A bit muddy under foot but we must expect that at this time of year. At least the sun is shining. A nice quick find here, signed log and replaced as found, TFTC

Another nice quick find here once we had sorted the coordinates, signed log, TFTC

Having found the other caches in the series we were really hoping we would come up trumps here and we did. Signed log and replaced as found. Only 1 more of this little series left. TFTC

Yes we got it and are pleased that we managed to complete the whole of this little series. Signed log and replaced as found. Thanks for the little series.

Last of the day for us. A fairly quick find, signed log, TFTC

A nice quick find here as the cache was fully exposed, signed log and replaced in natural camo. TFTC

We arrived at GZ and quickly spotted the cache. The log was in extremely poor condition so new signed log placed in cache, TFTC

Last in this series for us today. Will collect the rest of the family next time we are in the area, Signed log, TFTC

Looked about for quite a few minutes before this one was finally spotted, signed log, TFTC

Had managed to solve a few puzzles in the area and as it was a lovely day today, we decided to have a short stroll. Although the checker did not say OK here we thought we were very close and once at our GZ spotted the cache a few feet away, signed log and replaced as found, TFTC and the puzzle!

Been meaning to have a look at this one since it was published
Today I only had time for one cache so dropped the girls to school and headed out to have a look here.
I was hoping it wasn't going to be too complicated.
I know how tricky Mr Crow's puzzles can be and I'm never really at my best until midday anyway!
I needn't have worried.
After standing looking confused for a minute I decided I might actually have to move to find the plaque
Soon gathered the info, successfully managed the maths and took the short journey to GZ where the cache was quickly found.
TFTC

Nice find

## If you FTF this cache, but can't log a Found It straightaway, please have the courtesy to Write Note for the benefit of others striving for an FTF. ##

Second to find at 16.11hrs 19.01.2017 (well done Frantica) !

Log to follow

[FTF] @ 1539 19/1/2017

So, I've fallen out of bed having had a nap after my night shift, thrown on some clothes and headed off to pick the girls up from school. Whilst I'm waiting for them I start browsing the map looking for where to head for my daily cache. I'm running out of local options and desperately trying to save some for real emergencies. This one dropped into my inbox as I was looking. What a gift............
Decision made........once the girls were on board we would be heading to Great Braxted
There was a slight chance we'd make it there first, so all the excitement of a potential FTF too.

Weirdly, I was here yesterday having a go at the other newly published multi
I remembered the 'artistic communicator' cache that used to be here and the problems it gave me.
It must have been 3 or four visits before I found it.
Vivid memories of the bottle of milk festering inside the phone box too
Luckily this multi doesn't require any door opening so I didn't need to check if it was still there!

We soon found the info we did need and the kids quickly did the maths and came up with a new set of coordinates which looked promising. A short walk later we were rummaging about and quickly had the prize in hand. Now.............were there going to be other names on the log? Nope!
Logs signed and FTF claimed at 1539
Thanks for a great little multi

Drove by here a couple nights ago, and started planning my own multi. Beaten to it by the Crow! Hats off :)

Thanks for cache

Gps needle trying to send me in weird directions. Map was good though. Awesome location. TFTC

A beautiful morning walk along the hooker track before the rain came! We did the geocaches on the walk back. With the hint this was a nice easy find. A beautiful spot. Thanks for hiding!

A nice little play to distract me from puzzles that were just confuzzling my brain. And in the area today for this amongst others.

Took a while to get to gz sinpky because muggle hubby had continued on his route rather than checking where we were going first. So after a while with the gps counting up we retraced and took an earlier spotted path. Near to gz I decided against the direct brambly route and was able to navigate around to a non spiky quick find.

Ta muchly

A trip to Crow country padding the RRs with a few extra. These sparked my interest as I like puzzles, always keen to add to CMs and I've been here before ;)

A short wander in the afternoon from our parking spot on still frosty ground and crunchy leaves. A quick find as per hint even if muggle hubby had gotten ahead of himself.
Ta muchly

Nice find

nice find thanks

Nice find

a short weekend away and thought we would catch some caches thanks

Nice find

many thanks ....

thanks for cache

Not sure why we missed this on the "way out" but a quick stop on the way back. A previous lig suggested I was looking for something else and with that in mind was soon found.

Ta muchly, will be back for some more Essex 100 when I'm no longer of the walking wounded

Time for a wander in Crow Country. First of the Essex 100 I've found and won't be the last.
Lovely sunny afternoon and a quick find if rather prickly here.
Tftc

Time for a wander in Crow Country.

Second of the Essex 100 and had an idea on approach. Thankfully a lot easier than the hint initially suggested.

Ta muchly

Ooo blimey. Must be time for some more RRs to be found.

This was one I never quite picked up and unsure why. But with the outstanding numbers dwindling I decided to get to grips with it. A few run throughs and I had enough to know what I was doing even though my pack had three jokers in! Still the joke wasn't on me as quite quickly after a proof of concept I spreadsheeted it. And quickly came up trumps.

Of course this necessitated taking the laptop out with us...

Not sure which of the hides took the longest. Finally found first on floor in front of likely hide, not sure if I dislodged it or if it had fallen foul of the trimmers. The decode was the quickest of the lot once I'd got my order in order. Final GZ necessitated confirmation we were in the right spot (we were) and the help of mugglehubby as with a recovering sprained ankle I'm not very limber at the moment. He soon reached it in a spot that I'd only be able to tentatively prod.

Fave :)

One of the two remaining RR day hangovers, both found today :)

184 - Getting a dial tone fine but knowing the next step was another story and there was no operator assistance :( After adding in an overlooked bit, DOH everything felt a lot more number friendly and eventually I knew what I had to do. Ring Ring.

Very muggle heavy today but thankfully they all seemed to be walking a different route to us. So we were able to search uninterrupted at GZ although Muggle Hubby found straight away. What he failed to account for was the dogs helping him and as he turned to hand me the cache he knocked one of them off and into the water/mud. Oops.

A fun solve and a fun find, Oscar didn't think so though :p

Ta muchly

Hahahaha... I had so much fun with this. The MO just made sense to me but the key wasn't unlocked for some time. To the extent that 3S started trying to give me hints (not sure if she thought that would help me solve the unfound RRs as well). Which resulted in some very obtuse answers, quite fitting I thought. Anyway finally I had to confess I had solved and indeed had to come find. A familiar spot that I thought warranted a cache but I don't like to conjecture RRs.

Took a while at gz so I decided to take a different vantage point and so was able to guide little miss in so I could then return for optimum retrieval.

Ta muchly

Why oh why did I take so long for this one. To be fair it was more of a finding the right source. And then it so closely worked. I really must learn to pay attention because it makes things oh so much clearer.

Which gz didn't. Another one that had survived the winter trimming. I had initially searched the wrong side mainly because I didn't want to delve into that. As that came up empty, I allowed the gps to guide me properly and acquiesced to a quick search. One spot I wasn't going anywhere near and then there was another that could only really be identified due to the deforestation (reckon this gz is completely different in summer). Luckily after a bit of spring cleaning and prodding my fingers touched something that could only be cache related. And yay it was, if rather soggy.
I dried as best could but unfortunately wasn't equipped with spare bags so didn't seem worth replaced a log only for it to get wet again.

Thanks for cache and puzzle, again :)

And to the last of the RRDay caches that weren't collected (although I still have 13 or so RRs to solve/find)

199 - Rather despairing that I was running out of solvable puzzles. Spent ages looking at a few without major progress. So returned to this, had a fair idea and it was just grunt work. Turns out I was going round in circles and once I'd got that realisation everything else made sense. Back to good old excel for a quick number crunch. As yes my formulae were one number out as always so again corrected and this time it all made sense. That slight hesitation that suggests the checker is doing something more than getting ready to stick its tongue out at you and a green light was achieved. This one gets a fave for looking so complicated but it's not really

A nice wander to gz with the shooters only briefly interrupting the peace... Another one I sent muggle hubby in to retrieve as I'm favouring flat terrain at the moment. Lovely in the winter sun.

Ta muchly

My last (numerically but not necessarily physically) RR of the day.
I'd been barking up an adjacent tree with this one, right idea but wrong set and wrong data so to speak. Sonething just tweaked my idea one night and as is often the way it all made sense, always helps when the big clue you'd missed then confirms your reasoning :)

And so to gz or rather past gz which i kind of saw in passing but the over friendly van and setting sun made finding a stopping place impossible. On our return trip we fared better and cache was soon in hand.

Ta muchly

Hmm... Confession time... This was found in a "I bet there's a cache there" but as we'd already wandered most of the route and I'm sure we'll be back to do it properly (I just hadn't got the link or battery on my phone today)

Nice spot :)

Easy find on a very cold but clear day. Tftc

A nice quick find to the start of this series. A cold but bright sunny day

Nice quick find to start off today's walk with tizzie whizz, pink pear drops and granddaughter

Pink pear drops found it but hard to extract

Tftc. Soon spotted but took little while to retrieve

Crossed a muddy field to this. Easy find but hard to remove tftc

PPD and granddaughter went down and spotted this one

Tftc. A quick find by pinkpeardrops and gt niece.

Another easy find with my little cousin tftc

Granddaughters arms not long enough to reach this one

Neither I or the youngest legs could get this. Pinkpeardrops to the rescue.

This is a lovely walk, but muddy in places. Easy find but bit tricky to reach tftc

Lovely walk Ina lovely frosty day TFTC

Tftc. Not sure what happened to the footpath but we went round the field and then picked it up again

Lost the footpath so walked around the edge of the field. Had to look under a couple before we found the cache.

Nice quick find here. So peaceful

Tftc. I quickly spotted this. So peaceful here.

Nice peaceful walk on a cold and frosty afternoon. Cache soon spotted and log signed TFTC

Quickly located TFTC

Tftc. Another quick find. Beware of broken bottle nearby.

Bridge is a bit brokn but still useable. Watch out for broken bottle and the road. TFTC

Granddaughter loved the treasures and left one in return

Tftc. We were wondering what the fence was for around this particular field. Very high ??

Walked across wondering what animal lives in here. Easy find and littlest cacher liked the treasure. TFTC

PPD had soon found this one

Tftc passed close by a house and through part of their garden. Been a lovely walk

Took a little search but I soon found it. Seem to have lost one of our pens between this and number 8 and our only pen is running out.

Bit of a delve but tizzie whizz retrieved it

Was hoping nothing would bite me as I stuck
My hand blindly in a hole. Tftc.

Had to walk around the edge of a muddy field before walking down the Lane. Again a little search before we found the cache.

When we finally got right corner soon had cache located but lost one pen and other one not working. Container broken

Container broken

Tftc looked at wrong corner at first. Lost one pen last own running out. Photo taken container a bit broken.

Looked wrong end of bridge at first but then I soon found it. Container is broken. Our only pen has run out so signed as best as we could. Tftc

Hard to sign when pen won't work but just managed to make an impression of T L

Tftc. A quick find to the end of this series. Little niece walked the whole way. Now back to car for hot chocolate and cake!!!!!!!

Last cache of this lovely walk, now back to the cars for hot chocolate and cake. Thanks for a lovely series.

Mr DG has a day off work today so is heading around the area picking up mostly church micros and village sign caches with a few others in between.

A local walked by who used to cache and she told me I was in the right tree but it wasnt there

During our holidays in NZ we discovered a lot of interesting places and caches. This is one of them.
Thanks for hiding and maintaining.
TFTC

Wanted a special cache today as this is my 600th caching day in a row. Sadly not a RR but a Mr Crow cache is not to be sniffed at! Had plenty of time to work out co-ords as my GPS is very slow loading to day, I do wonder why..... Once done a walk to a place I've never visited before and a rummage around produced a nicely hidden cache. Great views across the fields here too. Now I have to decide whether to continue the run, time will tell.????
Thanks for placing the cache Mr Crow.

Not-A-Puzzle! All multis are a puzzle without a gpsr. Not a difficult puzzle however when you have certain data to hand. The most difficult bit being where is it on the laptop?
Had looked at the plot on GE but had not brought any notes with me not expecting to be passing. Wandered and soon found a GE and hint fitting hide. It still took some rooting out.
Not the only one visiting today.
SL TFTC

A nice quick find after missing the previous one

Tftc. Tuna lily had gone through whilst I stopped and grabbed it.

This was an easy find apart from Tunalily had walked past it.

A lot of ground disturbance here so didn't spend too looking

Lots of ground disturbance here and no sign of cache

Didn't find this, lots of holes and fallen wood.

Quick find but tizzie whizz had to get down to retrieve it

Tftc. Very peaceful here

Quick find but harder to reach. TFTC

GPS took us straight to this one. Lovely walk with pink pear drops and tizzie whizz

Tftc. A lovely area surprisingly close to home

Another easy find. Seems a lovely walk so far, have never been round here before, TFTC

Tftc. Saw this as we approached. Once again disappointed to see that the TB that should be in it is not in.

Cache was exposed so hidden up. Disappointed that no TB

Found out in the open so we rehid it better. TB listed isn't in the cache. TFTC

We had a look but couldn't find.

Pinkpeardrops had this in hand before tuna lily or myself had sorted out phones and dogs. Log wet

Pink pear drops found this before we were even orgsnised

Easy find, log is damp. Now for the rest of the walk tftc

Jan/28/2017 - Log is damp. If you read this before visiting the cache could you take a log strip with you and replace until I attend?

Tftc. Now on to church and coffee

Pink pear drops found this while we were slightly off course

I quickly found this. A lovely walk but a couple of styles not suitable for big dogs as we had to lift a German shepherd over one of them. Now for a drink and cake,

I walked straight past it but eagle eyed pink pear drops spotted it

Not sure about the bridge. Looks s bit dodgy tftc. Made it lol

Bridge looks a bit dodge. I spotted this hidden away. TFTC

Tizzie whizz quickly spied this one

Tftc. Spotted as we got there. Will try and hide a bit better

Quickly found, re hid a little better TFTC

Clever clue. Once found it soon had cache

Tftc. Queried the clue at first then a light bulb moment.

The other were looking in the wrong area but I soon found it

Tftc. A quick find here from tuna lily

Thought this might be a long search but no quickly found

Quick find and a nice walk TFTC

Tftc. I was in wrong place this time. Tuna lily soon located it.

I went one side of the road, the others the other and I was right

One on one side of the road and us on the other. Tuna Lily soon found it TFTC

Tftc pinkpeardrops just managed to reach this one

Pink pear drop being the tallest had to get this one

Could only just reach this. Watch out for the traffic TFTC

I quickly found the solution to the multi and headed off down the footpath. This brought me to a lovely wood and I soon found GZ. A nice big cache container (I do like big ones) was found quickly thanks to the excellent hint.
Thanks for this cache, Mr Crow.

4th find of 8 this morning.

I really enjoed this one, a nice easy cache and dash but different. The route to the GZ was slippery though so be careful.

TFTC

The Chaser had done the groundwork for this puzzle earlier this month, so after he chivvied me up early to beat the impending rain this afternoon, we drove to the area after we had picked up another puzzle a few miles away. Muddy muddy parking place, then a couple with 4 huge bouncing bounding dogs seemed to be there around every turn we made. Luckily we made it to GZ having shaken them off and the Chaser found the cache tucked away all lovely and dry. A great GZ with some impressive specimens. I left a flamingo cocktail stick in the tub. Have a fave. TFTCx

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I had solved a couple of weeks ago when I had been in the area working.
Today before the rain blew in we wandered down the path to find this cache, lovely wood.
It could only be in one place.
Thanks.

A quick easy find but got very muddy laying down to retrieve TFTC olivesmith

Back here again today for my daily cache. I couldn't find the pump at first, so decided to have a bit of a walk in a westwards direction and then spotted it. Numbers crunched and checked as correct, so headed off for a walk down the road. It was nice and quiet along here today. I wasn't sure what I would be looking for when I read the hint, but once at GZ the penny dropped and it was a quick find.
Thanks for this cache, Mr Crow.

Our second cache in nz. After filling up our water at the tourist information we die the hooker called track. Ob the was back we Fond this nice little cache. Thanks to the owner and greetings from Germany ????????
Laura & Max

Found on 30-01-2017 at 13:37

A lunch time trip out again. I decided to hit Crow Country again and pick up a couple of caches in the area.

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No trouble finding this one although a muggle dogwalker did hinder my progress for a while. I wasn't aware there was any building work going on in Tiptree - there seems to be plenty of it about in the county at the moment!

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TFTC Mr Crow
#2467

Just noticed two old caches have been added to the Rally Round series

This one didn't take too long to solve , surprised it is a 4 star really.
Most of the latest 4 stars I can't solve

In the Colne area today picking up Gilly wig caches so added it to the list.
TFTC

Interesting story to read, thanks! Great spot for a cache, beautiful reflection in the pool. I'd never have taken the side trail so thank you for the little detour!

I was away when this cache was published and so saved the find for a day when I was passing through on the way to work. Great Braxted has changed quite a bit since moving to the area. The Du Cane Arms is sadly no longer a pub and the new houses on the edge of the village are almost complete.

I knew where the pump was from previous visits to a friends house who lived close by. Soon had the information I needed. Knowing the area helped with the hint and it was a quick find this morning.

Thanks Mr Crow.

(FTF) with Dan

Today was a big event at work

My first big event on my own

And it went swimmingly :-)

Starting to love my job

AND even managed to not look at the new RR

At home and Dan was distracted by other things

But we found something that made sense of a bit of it (after we’d discounted the other)

And then a bit more and then more still, but not the final bit

We’d pretty much decided to go anyway when Dan did her magic thing and the final narrowing

I’m sure the ¾ of a bottle of wine I had drunk contributed ……. Somehow

Cue the crazy night time drive

GPS and memory of picture (print out was left in car, of course) coincided ….. and it was found

I've only got one favorite to give ........

Thank you Ray

Joint FTF at 2225 ish.

Ooo another RR but far too many things to do today so after trying the obvious went off to do other things until the persistent ping. Which resulted in some convoluted maths, which once I worked out what 3S was doing gave me the answer I had initially.

And then in true 3S fashion she started sending me white papers with the "I don't understand this" comment. Well most of the time neither do I, but after a bit of playing about disproving the standard set of queries, I came back to it and wondered. Hmm. And actually it worked, or rather the usual Crow rule of a bit more work was required than the norm. So another red but it just had to be. So almost a 3S moment of colouring pencils or rather my lets make handchopping actions across the screen to slap it out of the plot. Which to my surprise worked :)

Shall we go? And in true late night dash for FTF... 3S couldn't drive but luckily without my painkillers I could thanks to cruise control, as long as I don't have to stop anywhere :)

Anyway long story short, a nice plot, a nice spot and some nice bark-o-flage spotted which left 3S to climb through the prickles in the wrong direction. Cue comedy moment where I finally got my fingers on the cache, 3S leapt back out of the bush, almost fell flat on her face, I dropped part of the inner cache and she threw the remainder at me. Pah. Anyway we signed and put everything back as we found it. Am sure it would have been more sensible in the daylight but not quite as much fun (we took note of the 24/7 attribute)

Ta muchly for an education

PS My 100th FTF whoop whoop :)

An overcast morning with a very real threat of torrential rain by the looks of things, so, a quick look at my lists to choose just one cache for today......
Ah, yes, this one!
It seems ages since I started this one, first time I was missing a couple of numbers, second time I got the numbers but couldn't get enough signal to plot the final GZ (really must get a decent GPS rather than relying on my phone), this time armed with final coords I set off optimistic that I'd finally crack it.
It was a fun walk to the cache, splashing in puddles and trudging through mud after last night's downpour. Fortunately I managed to stay upright. It did seem odd taking such a short walk on the heath after all the miles I must have put in collecting the information.
Arrived at GZ, hmmm, I know you're under there somewhere..............
I grabbed a stick and moved what must have been millions of leaves before I finally heard that wonderful clunk of wood on plastic. Hoorah!
Soon had the log signed and the cache tucked away again
Many thanks for the cache

Found it! Easy grab on our hiking day.

TB taken.

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Found during our NZ tour with Mikisha. We spent 3 weeks visiting both islands, starting at Auckland and going south, through Rotorua, the Tongariro national park and Wellington. Then, tookthe ferry to Picton, and took the west coast, via Abel Tasman, Franz Joseph and Fox Glaciers, Queenstown, Invergargill, and took the east coast via Dunedin, Oamaru, and finally arriving to Christchurch. 3 weeks with awesome caches, plenty of oldies, and lots lots of fun :) Thanks to all the owners for those boxes and fortheir maintenance! ^^

Nice easy find for the start of a day away from work while Mrs Goldilox97 is working on her dissertation.

Nice cache... it was floating under the bridge. Left it where i think it should have been... on to number 3

What a glorious day.. sun is out and another cache found. It always feels strange when the footpath goes through the middle of a field which was a little muddy.

Cache had slipped down the bank.. replaced under bridge nearer the path..

Finished the muddy field. Found the ditch or stream as it will be called today... few slips and splashes... log signed.

I wonder how waterproof my rather ageing walking boots are..

Time to squelch yo the next cache

Number 5 is not alive... missing bison the hook is on the lonely post but nothing attachef to it other than tge friendly hawthorn

Nice find... just there tge hint said. Thanks

Same colour as mr custard... thanks

Nice and easy... bison had a not so nice slug friend

Nice find thanks.

Nice hide thanks....on to tge nuxt

Went back for a final check and saw the other steps

Nice find. Log a little damp. It has got rather windy

Yeah.... nice hide.

Cache was just where it was meant to be

Log damp... thanks for the cache mr crow

Cool cache... had to use tweezers to get the cache out of the tube

Nice been a while since i have seen one of this kind of container. Thanks

Nice.. couldn't see it under the stone at first.. needed a dig in the mud

Two containers. One was open and very wet so i signed the other one

Spent a while looking for this one... then it said hello to me

Which bung... that bung.. thanks

First muggles of the day to wait for them to pass. Then a nice quick spot

Lasy one of the trail. Thank you Mr Cow

Having had a walk early this morning with no cache the muggle droveme to to find this one before lunch and the incoming rain. Parked carefully nearby and a short walk took us to GZ. After feeling in a very wet place, yuck, I raised my sights and spotted the cache a little higher than expected. Signed and a race back to car before the rain really set in. Now I have to solve a few more RRs. Thanks for a puzzle even I could solve, ???? and for placing the cache Mr Crow.

It was a nice morning, so we walked into town, and got the No 71 bus to Kelvedon.
Numbers sorted and short walk to GZ to sign the log sheet.
Thank you Mr Crow for the cache, and showing us this interesting village sign.

## If you FTF this cache, but can't log a Found It straightaway, please have the courtesy to Write Note for the benefit of others striving for an FTF. ##

Found it at 10.30pm! STF though - thought I might get lucky and be able to grab a FTF for February so soon into the month but it wasn't to be. Never mind - it all adds to the fun and adventure.

I'd been out, having one of the best nights for a very long time with a couple of friends, life has been pretty rubbish for quite a few months now, so a good night was well overdue and it certainly didn't disappoint. I was wearing a dress and very high heels, so not typical geocaching gear. Parked up near GZ, waited in the car a bit, plucking up the courage to get out to where I needed to go to retrieve the info - I'm not too good at this caching alone malarky. As soon as I got out of the car and walked towards the co-ords, my heels sunk right in the soft grass underfoot, this was going to be tricky. I'm quite clumsy at the best of times without having to contend with an uneven soft ground to walk on plus it was pitch black and so I was trying to hold a torch and a phone - I must have looked so silly to the cars that drove by, all dressed up and walking towards a village sign, lol!
Snapped the info required and back to the car. Did the necessary working out and got a plot that looked good, managed to get enough of a signal to run the checker and it said OK.
With torch at the ready I was soon at the worked out GZ co-ords, spotted straight away, retrieved and went back to the car as I felt a bit silly. It wasn't a FTF, I'd been pipped to the post only by about 30 minutes even thought the cache had been out since 6.50pm, never mind - a STF.
Signed the log, Vicky the Volvo Car TB visited for milage. Thanks for the cache Mr Crow.

{FTF} FTF

Saw this come out and decided to grab after i picked Joss up
Got the info i need and got a nice plot
Lots of choices to hide a cache here
Soon had it in hand
Pleased to sign the virgin log sheet
Nice village sign with a easy multi

signed log

TFTC

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An afternoon caching in the fantastic countryside aound Great Bradley with the Crow followed by a convivial evening with friends being waited on and served delicious food and wine. What could be better? Not a lot!

As we walked to this cache Crow told me he walked along the (dry) river bed when he placed it. No chance of that today as the river was very wet and flowing fast! Got wet toes crossing at the ford but threw some big stones in on the return andmade it to dry land safely. Favourite.
TFTC Mr Crow

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An afternoon caching in the fantastic countryside aound Great Bradley with the Crow followed by a convivial evening with friends being waited on and served delicious food and wine. What could be better? Not a lot!

A quick find in a lovely location then we set off on our 7.5 mile walk. When we returned to the car at 6pm the church was lit up and looked absolutely stunning. A great start and a great end to the trail.
TFTC Mr Crow

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An afternoon caching in the fantastic countryside aound Great Bradley with the Crow followed by a convivial evening with friends being waited on and served delicious food and wine. What could be better? Not a lot!

Lovely location for the start followed by a great route to the cache. Peaceful and beautiful in February - but I am sure it will be absolutely stunning in summer. Maybe I will return with the Crow to place a few more caches in the area - it certainly deserves some.
TFTC Mr Crow

Found on 03-02-2017 at 13:46

Out in Crow Country once again for a mop up of a few caches in the area.

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A short stroll from where I parked the car to the cache which took a little finding as my GPS made me overshoot the hide. As I backtracked, I spotted the camo bag peeking out from its hidey hole. Replaced in the same spot, only ore hidden...

The puzzle was tricky to get into from what I recall but the numbers emerged reasonably quickly once 'in'.

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#2 of 2 today
TFTC Mr Crow
#2472

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TFTC Mr Crow
#2472

Found today at 13.30. Not first by a long stretch - Two logs before mine, both last night at 10/10.30.
Always disappointing to be pipped to the post but I wasn't just 'pipped'. Please respect Mr Crow's wishes and log something!

Full log to follow.

Found on 03-02-2017 at 13:33

Out in Crow Country once again for a mop up of a few caches in the area.

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Thought I'd try for a FTF on this cache as no online log had been made when I began my journey. Given the cache had been pblished for the best part of a day, I wasn't overly hopeful of finding a blank log but when I did locate the cache, I found I'd been beaten by 15 hours. Twice.

Given the CO's note, I was a little perturbed that neither of the finders heeded his words - most disappointing but not hugely unexpected.

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TFTC Mr Crow
#2471

Nice find out last weekend with socksonsunday finding a few caches along a busy but pleasant walk. TFTC

Found in the fine company of my pink geo buddy JJB .
It's great to be back in Essex for some caching fun in search of some more plastic pots .
We had a great day targeting church mico's, sidetracks, village signs and a few simple hides in-between these.
It's always a pleasure to find another cache in the church micro series, a nice puzzle for this pretty church and once at GZ the cache was easily found.
Thanks for another church micro to add to the stats.
TFTC TNLN

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Caching in the company of my geobuddy on the hunt for a few more village sign caches, sidetracked and hopefully a CM or two. We were on an errand to collect something from Great Bentley and this gave us the prefect excuse to explore the area again.

It's always a pleasure to find another cache in the church micro series, good job my buddy was here to show me the way north, my GPS was bouncing all around, we added our names to the log

Thank you for taking the time and effort to place this cache another nice addition to the church micro series

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Now there is nothing like an archive threat to galvanise a visit to some of the many, many geocaches on the wishlist. FVC, maybe a third completed. So many Murrkin puzzles solved but never to be found (well, maybe about 5). And the Essex Way, barely started it before it came to an end!

So, on the last weekend with Grandad monster in the country and entertaining the small monsters, I got a caching day. Now 12 miles is probably a bit too far for me so I decided to park up at the RSPB and just go around Old Hall marsh. The car park doesn't actually say anything about who can park there so maybe this has changed? But we are RSPB members anyway so wouldn't have had a problem. Looked at the map on the notice board. I had measured the route on google maps as a manageable 6 miles. Although that doesn't sound right, maybe I measured it as 8??? Anyway, the noticeboard said 3 miles for the short walk and the long route looked like considerably more than twice as far. Gulp. Would need to keep an eye on the time and have a plan for turning back if I didn't get half way with time to get back before the car park closed.

So parked up. Binoculars? Could be handy at a bird reserve. Normally they live in the car but we took them out for the big garden birdwatch last week. Seems they didn't get put back. Little backpack. Darn, forgot the strap broke two days ago so that will be useless and the big bagpack is at home. So, water in one pocket, sandwiches in the other and off I go. And it only took until the first cache before I realise that my cache bag is in little backpack in the car boot. Lets hope we don't need anything tricky like tweezers, magnets, uv lights...

Fortunately nothing like that needed here. Picked up the TB.

M

Quickly spotted here.

M

Already irritated by the fact that the caches aren't in my GPS. This area just falls out of my 1000 closest unfound caches to Colchester PQ and also just outside my 500 closest unfound caches to Tolleshunt (not sure which one!) PQ and I couldn't be bothered to set up another PQ so saved them to my phone which means manually putting coords into my GPS for each cache.

Anyway, straightforward find here.

M

The hint for this made no sense whatsover. However, a short search of the likely looking places soon uncovered the cache.

M

Another quick find here.

M

A bit out of order! Decided that this one looked pretty much midway between 9 and 21. Either way, it would need a little detour to pick it up. Decided to approach it from 21 when I knew how I was doing for time and how tired I was getting!

M

Had to wander slowly along this stretch as I could see someone coming toward me along the seawall - we met close to the cache where he had to lift a very elderly and tired looking dog over.

M

Walking round here, half wandering if RR214 is hidden around here somewhere, given the placement of the question mark on the map.I must admit to a couple of speculative looks in spots around the marshes but I didn't find anything other than Essex 100 caches.

M

Lots of poo on this part of the sea wall. I suspect geese. Boy Monster got plop trumps from Santa this year and everyone wants the goose card as they beat everything with a frequency rate of 1400 (poos in 10 days).

M

Weird coincidences. I was walking along here, looking at the power station and remembering a friend who lived out Steeple way and used to tell me that she often saw seals when she walked her dogs on the seawall at Bradwell. That led me on to remembering watching dolphins at Chanonry point in the Moray Firth in the summer. And then here, I dropped my gps, which again was a reminder of dropping it at a cache at Chanonry Point and, that time, nearly not finding it again.

M

Turned back inland now. And there are some rather ominous dark clouds ahead. No mist below them so hopefully just clouds as I am rather a long way from shelter.

Another quick find.

M

For once, didn't get my rights and lefts muddled.

M

More fun and games. As I approached this one, someone else was approaching from the other direction. Sea walls and salt marshes. No place to hide. Loitered for a bit, walking slowly and stopping for lots of pictures of what I thought was Brightlingsea but looking at the map appears to be West Mersea By the time the other walker was at a safe distance, I had drifted 100m past the cache and had to head back to the staircase which I hadn't even noticed.

M

Quick find here.

M

And another quick find.

M

And another one.

M

Second tree? Maybe whatever has been nibbling the camo bag has also had a go at the other tree!

M

Shiny! In plain sight - surprised it has lasted.

M

Aww, gone wrong here! The hint doesn't really make sense. Combined with new fencing on the right of the gate, I wonder if this has gone along with the hint item.

Feb/03/2017 - Hmm ... will check as soon as possible.

I wondered how this was accessed given that it appears to be well off the footpath. Goose friendly path apparently. Or maybe they had to move the path because there was too much goose poo in the field.

Anyway, found the hint item. Nothing there. GPS was a bit out. Found another hint item. Saw something shiny. But, wow, that was a difficult retrieve. There is a very thorny bush in the way (blackthorn maybe?Hard to tell at this time of year). Log was soggy and I didn't have anything to replace it with (broken backpack in car boot remember!). Then replacing was even harder.Crouched down, thorns in face, eyes tight shut to prevent thorn related injuries. And the bison just wouldn't go back onto the thread. Got it eventually but I wonder if it has been cross-threaded at some point, or just not replaced properly which has let the water get in.

Standing up again, I realise I am feeling really weary and rather glad this is the penultimate cache.

M

Feb/03/2017 - Wet log needs replacing.

Saw my little car parked up in the car park and agonisingly had to walk on to get this one! Would have been very easy to DNF this one. With a previous DNF, feeling rather tired now, and with a proper search to do rather than the only wooden post in miles, it all seemed a bit much. Fortunately though, I spotted this one after a few minutes searching.

Thank you for a lovely trail around the marshes. It started off bleak and grey and beautiful and ended with the sun breaking through the clouds. Lovely walk. Lovely area.

M

Feb/04/2017 - Log needs replacing, so if see this before you set out I would grateful if you could replace for me ... unless I get there first of course.

Feb/04/2017 - Log needs replacing, so if see this before you set out I would grateful if you could replace for me ... unless I get there first of course.

Feb/04/2017 - Log needs replacing, so if see this before you set out I would grateful if you could replace for me ... unless I get there first of course.

Found in the fine company of my pink geo buddy JJB .
It's great to be back in Essex for some caching fun in search of some more plastic pots .
We had a great day targeting church mico's, sidetracks, village signs and a few simple hides in-between these.
It's always a pleasure to stop for a village sign and admire the different designs, a nice multi and a quick find at GZ.
Thanks for another village sign, we really like this series with all the pretty villages that we have visited.
TFTC TNLN

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Caching in the company of my geobuddy on the hunt for a few more village sign caches, sidetracked and hopefully a CM or two. We were on an errand to collect something from Great Bentley and this gave us the prefect excuse to explore the area again.

It's always a pleasure to find another cache in the village sign series, we sat on the bench nearby to work out the sum's, short walk to GZ and the cache was soon found, we added our names to the log

Thank you for taking the time and effort to place this cache another nice addition to the village sign series

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Found in the fine company of my pink geo buddy JJB .
It's great to be back in Essex for some caching fun in search of some more plastic pots .
We had a great day targeting church mico's, sidetracks, village signs and a few simple hides in-between these.
It's always a pleasure to stop for a village sign and admire the different designs, a nice multi and a quick find at GZ.
Thanks for another village sign, we really like this series with all the pretty villages that we have visited.
TFTC TNLN

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Caching in the company of my geobuddy on the hunt for a few more village sign caches, sidetracked and hopefully a CM or two. We were on an errand to collect something from Great Bentley and this gave us the prefect excuse to explore the area again.

It's always a pleasure to find another cache in the village sign series, picked the right direction for the pump and then had everything we needed to get to the final, no problems finding what we were looking for and we added our names to the log

Thank you for taking the time and effort to place this cache another nice addition to the village sign series

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Well I solved this cache this morning and visited this afternoon. Couldn't reach the cache, even with my reaching tool so will have to wait until I can find a taller caching buddy.????

Found in the fine company of my pink geo buddy JJB .
It's great to be back in Essex for some caching fun in search of some more plastic pots .
We had a great day targeting church mico's, sidetracks, village signs and a few simple hides in-between these.
It's always a pleasure to stop for a village sign and admire the different designs, a nice multi and a quick find at GZ.
Thanks for another village sign, we really like this series with all the pretty villages that we have visited.
TFTC TNLN

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Caching in the company of my geobuddy on the hunt for a few more village sign caches, sidetracked and hopefully a CM or two. We were on an errand to collect something from Great Bentley and this gave us the prefect excuse to explore the area again.

It's always a pleasure to find another cache in the village sign series, we worked out the sums from the comfort of the car before heading off to GZ where the cache was soon found, we added our names to the log

Thank you for taking the time and effort to place this cache another nice addition to the village sign series

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My last hike with half of our Active Adventures group. Half of us are going to see the glaciers up close. Very busy track today, but I managed to dodge the muggles. TFTC

A lovely day caching in the area with Ash of The Panteras and my geogoldies. We quickly had this one to hand. Log was signed PC to save space. TFTC!

sorry about late log

As the A12 was closed, it was a quick stop for these two new caches, while on my way to Abberton with Andrew. Information soon noted, numbers crunched and a short stroll to GZ.
Thank you Mr Crow for cache placement.

On my own this afternoon and decided to start this series. I knew I didn't have time for the whole walk but thought I could get at least two caches. An interesting walk to first cache, met a lady collecting logs , had an enjoyable chat and had to wait until she left with her first load before I could search for the cache. Eventually found the right spot and was able to sign cache and collect numbers. Onwards to the next cache. Thanks for placing the cache Mr Crow.

On my own this afternoon and decided to start this series. Having found no 1 and enjoyed a good chat with a muggle I figured I had time for just one more. A quick march to the next GZ and a quick find. Signed and replaced, remembering to note numbers. Just in time before a muggle with a large dog appeared. Gave both awide berth as neither seemed that friendly! Thanks for placing the cache Mr Crow.

As the A12 was closed, it was a quick stop for these two new caches, while on my way to Abberton with Andrew. Information soon noted, numbers crunched and a nice quick find at GZ.
Thank you for the cache Mr Crow and for adding to this popular series.

Had worked out coords for this cache at home, stopped on my way home to find and sign the log sheet.
Thank you Mr Crow for a nice multi and for adding to this interesting series.

#6951 found @ 15:33:00, cache 1 of 2 today.

I've been trying to fill my calendar with at least 5 finds a day. Between now and 26th July, there are 22 days which need work, today was one.

I had been decluttering the house again over the weekend and had generated lots of stuff which needed taking to the recycling centre in Boreham. (It's embarrassing but I think I have my own parking space reserved there now!)

So it wasn't such a long drive after that chore was executed to come to Great Braxted to pick up a couple of finds which I needed to bring today's calendar entry up to five.

Parked near the Fine Pair and soon found the info. It was a pleasant walk to GZ, where I spotted the cache straight away, nicely tucked under some camo. Left a TB, which I picked up from a very soggy box in Norfolk last Wednesday.

TFTC, Mr Crow

## If you FTF this cache, but can't log a Found It straightaway, please have the courtesy to Write Note for the benefit of others striving for an FTF. ##

:-)

{FTF} FTF

Back here again
Should have guessed
Great fun trying to find the numbers in the dark
But soon had a plot
Spotted as i approached
Another ftf for me
Cool pair n multi

signed log

TFTC

It was very muddy to this one but good walking boots stood up well, signed log, TFTC

Parked near to this one, very quiet here today. At GZ a quick find, signed log, TFTC

Out today picking up a few solved puzzles. We parked nearby and set out on a lovely walk. A quick find here, TFTC

Got the final coordinates for this wrong twice and finally worked it out just before heading home and noticed we would be passing quite near so grabbed it as our last cache of the day, TFTC

Decided to detour slightly to this one, signed log, TFTC

A nice quick find, signed log, TFTC

A nice quick find, signed log, TFTC

Decided to detour slightly for this one and almost wished we had not as we had difficulty finding it but after looking in a number of places we found it just before we were going to give up. Signed log, TFTC

Found quickly while in the area today. Log was soaked so have signed and placed a new one, TFTC

We had not planned to do this one today but missed our turning. As this was nearby we stopped before turning round and a nice quick find, signed log, TFTC

This puzzle almost sent us cross eye. At GZ signed log and replaced as found, TFTC

We searched for quite a few minutes here before we found it , signed log TFTC

Second of the two resurrected caches now included in the RR series.
Nice straightforward puzzle.
Collected on the way to Chelmsford on a cacheing day.
TFTC

Another nice quick find to complete this nice little series, signed log, TFTC

Soon worked out where to go once we had the required information. Took a few minutes to locate this one but eventually got it, signed log, TFTC

Quickly did the sums and a quick find at GZ, TFTC

A nice quick find here, signed log, TFTC

#6952 found @ 15:50:00, cache 2 of 2 today.

I've been trying to fill my calendar with at least 5 finds a day. Between now and 26th July, there are 22 days which need work, today was one.

I pottered along to the village sign having completed the Fine Pair nearby. The sign was located easily, and soon after, the pump. There was a lady there gardening, removing lots of overgrown nettles and holly. I had a brief chat with her and she had noticed lots of people visiting the pump because it was "part of some sort of quiz". I explained about geocaching and she looked slightly bemused, but understood why there were so many folks taking an interest! I thanked her for keeping the pump tidy

Numbers obtained, I set off for GZ where I made a swift find. Then I popped in to visit Mr Crow for a nic cup of tea, an excellent Kitty-baked cheese scone and a bit of geo-chat, before heading home again.

TFTC, Mr Crow

Enjoyed 'solving' this before setting out. Really tested my research and conjecturing skills
I did not expect to be FTF and was really surprised it hadn't been found before today.
SL TFT not a puzzle C.

Found it on the way home after an afternoon out with Kareninwb. I solved this a last year and came to look for it with the muggle. When we arrive at the spot I was convinced was right there were two men working yards from where I wanted to look and they stopped to watch me so I gave up and left it for another day. Well this was the day! Was so pleased to find my working was right, thought suspect it wasn't the way Mr Crow wanted it solved. I do love a bit of map work.! Thanks for placing the cache Mr Crow.

A long while since we have been around here, we used to bring the boys when visiting Auntie Kitty.
It took us a quite a time to locate this well placed cache this afternoon, as it was a bit brambly.
We should have followed GPS as the coords are spot on, rather than doubt we had written them down wrong.
Thank you for the interesting puzzle Mr Crow and for the old memories.

Our nearest unsolved puzzle to home was finally solved, and cache was quickly located this afternoon.
Thank you Mr Crow for aother well thought out puzzle.

The format was SOoooooooooooooo familiar.
Where have I seen(failed) before?
Ah!
Two birds (one Crow) with one stone.

Out with Kareninwb and we foolishly didn't collect the right information so ended up wandering around frisking trees! Even a phone call to the co didn't get us on the right track. Having got the correct numbers and plotted them on google I realise we were so close..... never mind the walking was very good for us.????We will be back.

Out with Snoopyus today and as we'd both worked out the final coordinates for this cache and Thalamorph we decided to look for them today. Whats a bit of snow and mud when you're out having fun! We made a real mess of this one as we'd noted down the wrong numbers and didn't realise out mistake when we set off in pursuit of the cache. We weren't far away as we'd followed the waypoints. However, we only discovered our error when the coordinates we had placed us in the middle of a ploughed field. We guessed what we'd done wrong but were too far away to rectify it and so resorted to a call to the CO.

We still didn't find the cache! It was a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack, and after searching several trees we reluctantly gave up. Having obtained the correct numbers and looking at the plot of GZ we were very close!

We'll be back soon.

Out with Kareninwb for a little gentle caching. ????I spend last evening solving puzzles, and looking out ones I had previously solved and lost track of! We didn't start too well as we made a mess of seeking out some extra numbers we needed. Putting that behind us, literally, we set of the find this one. A good walk got us to GZ and I was soon volunteering? to find the cache. Spotted with a sigh of relief,handed to Karen to do the paperwork, replaced and a back to the geofender. Another one of this series ticked off. Thanks for placing the cache Mr Crow.

After making such a mess of Panglossian we set off in the opposite direction to look for this one. At least there was no more additional figures required here! A pleasant but cold walk and we were soon at GZ. Elizabeth did volunteer ( I would happily have climbed down) whilst I supervised from the side! A few possible hiding places here but winkled out after a few false furtles!

Log signed and back to the car. Thanks for the cache and for your help today Mt Crow.

No problems here. 'Solved' before setting out. Parked close by. First find of a nice pair.
SL took photo TFTC.

We stayed a few nights at the white horse campground in mount cook national park. The weather was not super good, but it cleared up nearly every day and we could see mount cook a few times. We had a great time great time there, it was one of our favorite national park in nz so far.

At the first day it was very couldy, so we decided to go for a short walk right after noon. We did the governors bush and the red tarn loop. Found some nice caches on the way. In the evening we walked the hooker valley trail and had dinner infront of the glacier! Very cold but unforgetable. Found this one on the way back to the tent around 8p.m. Had to search for a loooong time, so blind.

Thank you very much for this nice cache!

Greetings from Switzerland ????????, Team Fludia

Out with the muggle today and swung by here to look for this cache. A quick check of my numbers and then a short search, lightbulb moment and I had the cache. A very fine pair indeed,the geofender was looking a little muddy today so no photo I'm afraid! Thanks for placing the cache Mr Crow.

Out and about this afternoon, and stopped to solve on way home.
Information soon noted and short stroll to GZ.
Thank you for cache Mr Crow and for adding another to this fine series.

This took us longer to solve than it should have done, even though the first part was quite straightforward. Then a mental block, followed by poor maths, meant that final coords proved more difficult to extract than they should have done.
Thank you Mr Crow for yet another pleasing puzzle. Favourite of course.

Pleased to solve much quicker than l first expected, perhaps l was just lucky.
Thank you for a really different puzzle, which was very enjoyable.
Pleased to leave a favourite point.
Thank you Mr Crow.

Had an idea what this one was about, soon after publication. Got most of the way to the solution but the checker kept saying No. The CO kindly confirmed that l was on the right lines and pointed out a minor error in my working. Once corrected the checker quickly submitted.
Pleased to leave a favourite point for another unusual puzzle.
Thank you Mr Crow.

## If you FTF this cache, but can't log a Found It straightaway, please have the courtesy to Write Note for the benefit of others striving for an FTF. ##

FTF at 1940ish.

Ooo another RR pops up and more so it was one that I knew straight away how to solve.

Well maybe not, with a slight change from the original I got stuck for the longest time on one which in hindsight really shouldn't have been that difficult. And then the problems began... Double and triple checking my maths just proved I knew what I was doing even if I ended up in the North Sea. So maybe I was putting in the wrong thing, cue lots of revisiting maps and second guessing myself on coordinate types.

Finally I resorted to a graphical method which straight away showed my error. Probably the exact same one I made with Brouwer mk1. If i read it like this instead then it all made sense and better yet it produced viable coords :)

Another madcap dash at night for a FTF, stopping to collect 3S who thankfully brought torches as I've lost mine. Pulled up a slight distance from gz. Managed to step ankle deep in a puddle, well at least it proved my boots are waterproof.

And a quick find by 3S at gz revealed a lovely blank log.

Obviously all too straightforward so failing having any bushes to fall out of... 3S placed her lantern to one side, took a step back, forgot about the lantern and promptly tripped over it. snigger

Ta muchly for another hairtearingout RR :) Fave.

(FTF) joint

Message from Dan: New RR!

Message from me: Hang on Trying not to kill people!!

Message from Dan: Just get on with it and kill them REPEAT: New RR!!

So 12 steps behind (as always) I'm on the words and the MO while she blinds ahead with the Math

AND we even beat 'Anonymous' to the checker this time!! :-P

Thank you for a.nice.puzzle!!

xx

First of the day on a second trip to crow country

Yes yes yes. Not expecting to get this one. Very well hidden cache. Gland ut is a winter find.

Had to wait for 2 muggle parties to go past and a school trip.. in February

Annoying school trip right next to tge cache

School kids moved.. yeah... nice find

Nice cache. Yeah no muggles to wait for.

Thanks.. just where i should br

Yeah.... nice cache

Nice.. thanks

I logged this as a DNF first... then.. just as i was about to leave... there it is... just like one of our own caches

Glanced down.. that looks like a cache hide.. and there it was.

I really couldn't see this one

Yeah. Another one

Easy in winter... skipped a couple as being watched by a farmer

Found it... think the hint is pointing to the wrong end of the barrier

Began to wonder if the recent high tide had got this cache... but no... it was there

Not wat i was expecting.... thanks for the supprise

Barr.. couldn't see this one

Found in its temporary position

Nice

Found on ground... put back next to the hint

New cache put in place

Nice and easy. .. after the jump

Found temporary cache location. Thanks

Nice thanks

Yes i am... thankyou

Jump an a hop and another find

Just where he should be

Thanks

Nice little hide

Couldn't see the cache. Nothing under the style. Like the previous loggers

Unfortunately i am not a little person.. mut managed to get to it

The last one of my day... thank you Mr Crow.

wooo hooo.. this was our 400th Cache

The format looked oh so familiar. But where from? When I remembered it was one of those moments where it all fell into place. I solved the other first then tackled this. A very pleasing extension to the method which with the help of excel produced perfect co-ords.
Parked further away than strictly necessary and savored the moment. Rally Round finds are something special.
With the image in mind I began pacing and saw what I was seeking before reaching the end. Nicely double potted cache and a great hide.
Signed and replaced then wondered if I could find another RR or two nearby. (maybe I haven't completely lost it.)
Thanks Ray, another good addition to the portfolio.

Well here we go again. Arrrgh. Well not so this time.
A wonderful prelude which apart from a Will-I-am moment, was a quick solve.
What 6 words could mean to move on to part two was something I am well aware of, though a non-conventional approach to acquire the data was employed.
Now thankfully all the pain from Brouwer allowed for a direct solve of part two. For some reason the checker didn't like it, but the plot just felt right. It had to be. (subsequently spotted my tiny excel error)
After RR222 I drove here and though my plot was almost a cricket wicket out, however I soon found the cache in a familiar place.
The satisfaction and enjoyment here is inversely proportional to its predecessor and well worth awarding a favourite.
TFTC and once more for giving me an opportunity to play in excel.
I wonder how big a cut and cover approach would need to be to get close this time?

Díkeš R&J

After a much needed lunch & coffee in Twizel, we booked into our accommodation for the night, then headed to Mt Cook village for some late afternoon walks. This was one of the must do's on our tour of the South Island, & we weren't disappointed.
We were surprised at how many guide, led Asian groups that we had to pass on the way to this cache, although most of them didn't make it all the way. But, despite so many tourists, it was an awesome walk, with amazing views. Although it was very windy at the viewing platform, the views were amazing.
We decided to head straight to the end of the track & pick up the caches on the way back when there would be less people.
That proved to be a wise decision as only one lot of muggles went past when we grabbed this cache. They looked our way but decided against checking out why we were there.
We left a pet rock - a snake.
Thanks for putting this cache in such an awesome place

Yay found it :)but forgot pen:(

Tftc

Pleasing puzzle that l was able to solve with pen and paper.
On my way with Andrew to RSPB at Old Hall Marshes, so stopped to sign log sheet on the way.
Thank you Mr Crow, for a nice straightforward puzzle.

Thanks for the cache ????

Spotted by Emily-Jo ???? Thanks for the cache ????

Thanks for the cache ????

Thanks for the cache ????

Thanks for the cache ????

Thanks for the cache ????

Spotted by riceandpeas jnr ???? Thanks for the cache ????

Spotted by riceandpeas jnr ???? Thanks for the cache ????

Struggled to remove this sneaky cache but managed to wriggle it free with the help of a twig!! Thanks for the cache ????

Spotted by SK ???? Thanks for the cache ????

Temporary cache spotted by riceandpeas jnr ???? Thanks for the cache ????

Spotted by SK ???? Thanks for the cache ????

Spotted by Emily-Jo ???? Thanks for the cache ????

Finally a bit of sunshine and a milder day. Perfect for a stroll along the coast and to pick up a few more of the Essex 100 series. Got to grab 'em while you still can!
Loaded up the daughters and dogs and went off out to blow away some cobwebs.
We had a lovely stroll, chatting as we ambled along.
Lots of twitchers around today checking out the plentiful bird population along the marshes here
The tide seemed particularly high today which had probably brought the birds closer to dry land.
A nice quick find here meant we had a full house of finds on our Valentine's Day walk
TFTC

Finally a bit of sunshine and a milder day. Perfect for a stroll along the coast and to pick up a few more of the Essex 100 series. Got to grab 'em while you still can!
Loaded up the daughters and dogs and went off out to blow away some cobwebs.
We had a lovely stroll, chatting as we ambled along.
Lots of twitchers around today checking out the plentiful bird population along the marshes here
The tide seemed particularly high today which had probably brought the birds closer to dry land.
No problems here
TFTC

Finally a bit of sunshine and a milder day. Perfect for a stroll along the coast and to pick up a few more of the Essex 100 series. Got to grab 'em while you still can!
Loaded up the daughters and dogs and went off out to blow away some cobwebs.
We had a lovely stroll, chatting as we ambled along.
Lots of twitchers around today checking out the plentiful bird population along the marshes here
The tide seemed particularly high today which had probably brought the birds closer to dry land.
Initially we only found an empty and torn camo bag.
We widened our search and found not one but two caches
One was very damp, so we signed the drier of the two before tucking them both back together under the tree
TFTC

Finally a bit of sunshine and a milder day. Perfect for a stroll along the coast and to pick up a few more of the Essex 100 series. Got to grab 'em while you still can!
Loaded up the daughters and dogs and went off out to blow away some cobwebs.
We had a lovely stroll, chatting as we ambled along.
Lots of twitchers around today checking out the plentiful bird population along the marshes here
The tide seemed particularly high today which had probably brought the birds closer to dry land.
This one took longer than it should have
Glad we stuck with it
TFTC

Finally a bit of sunshine and a milder day. Perfect for a stroll along the coast and to pick up a few more of the Essex 100 series. Got to grab 'em while you still can!
Loaded up the daughters and dogs and went off out to blow away some cobwebs.
We had a lovely stroll, chatting as we ambled along.
Lots of twitchers around today checking out the plentiful bird population along the marshes here
The tide seemed particularly high today which had probably brought the birds closer to dry land.
Sneaky little hide that would have taken much longer without the hint
TFTC

Finally a bit of sunshine and a milder day. Perfect for a stroll along the coast and to pick up a few more of the Essex 100 series. Got to grab 'em while you still can!
Loaded up the daughters and dogs and went off out to blow away some cobwebs.
We had a lovely stroll, chatting as we ambled along.
Lots of twitchers around today checking out the plentiful bird population along the marshes here
The tide seemed particularly high today which had probably brought the birds closer to dry land.
This one was quite tricky to open
Managed to keep my feet dry whilst fiddling with it....just!
TFTC

Finally a bit of sunshine and a milder day. Perfect for a stroll along the coast and to pick up a few more of the Essex 100 series. Got to grab 'em while you still can!
Loaded up the daughters and dogs and went off out to blow away some cobwebs.
We had a lovely stroll, chatting as we ambled along.
Lots of twitchers around today checking out the plentiful bird population along the marshes here
The tide seemed particularly high today which had probably brought the birds closer to dry land.
This was the first find of the day.
Was glad of the hint as my GPS wanted me about 20m away
All good here
TFTC

7219

A great way to replace the old archived cache. I do like this series. Enjoyed the walk to GZ where the cache was swiftly found - in excellent condition. Left the TB for the next finder.
TFTC Mr Crow

No problems here, signed log, TFTC

Our last of the day, signed log, TFTC

Yet another cache that we walked by the other day but finally got it, signed log, TFTC

A nice quick find here, signed log, TFTC

We have been along here before, quite recently!!. A quick find, signed log, TFTC

We have had the coordinates for this one for ages and today with finally had the chance to pick it up, signed log, TFTC

We love cats so just had to seek this one out. A nice quick find, signed log, TFTC

Another one ticked off on this lovely sunny day, signed log, TFTC

Oophs forgot to log this one. A very well hidden cache but we got it, signed log and replaced as found, TFTC

This was soon located by Mr peegeenine, signed log and replaced as found, TFTC

Another one ticked off our list, signed log, TFTC

This one took longer than it should have to find, as we could not work out the hint but after looking in a number of places we got it, signed log, TFTC

Quickly found this one, signed log, TFTC

Well this one had us on a bit of string and we almost gave up, but you just have to look in one more place, signed log and replaced as found, TFTC

Well this took ages to solve even after a clue where to look from the CO, signed log, TFTC

Decided as it was such a nice day today to head out to pick up a few caches that we have solved recently. We found a good parking spot and headed off for a circular walk with just a couple of detours. We walked just over 9 miles in total.
This was a nice quick find, signed log TFTC

No problems here, signed log, TFTC

It was a very muddy walk to this one but at least we were rewarded with the cache, signed log, TFTC

Enjoyed the walk to this one and a nice quick find at GZ, signed log, TFTC. Would like to see the TB perhaps we will get the chance

What a nice little find here!, signed log, TFTC

A short rummage here and we were soon signing the log, TFTC

We really liked this one, spotted straight away and ensured after signing it was back as found, TFTC

Another one we walked past on our last trip out but got it this time, signed log and replaced as found, TFTC

7218

Very much ROLF when the anagram was cracked.

Today's outing was compromised due to a series of unfortunate events so when the Crow suggested we take a stroll things looked up - especially when I realized we would be passing this one. Have a favourite on multiple counts.
TFTC Mr Crow

Solved shortly after it was published but left it until today to collect as I was very short of time as it's so close to home. Lots of traffic about but I knew where to look having checked the coordinates on google earth and so it was a quick retrieval.

Thanks Mr Crow.

Quick find. Nice place...

TFTC, Zynikus

I have been in New Zealand alone 25 years ago.
This time i visited down under again with my wife.
We also visited our daughters which were here for 7 months for work and travel.
When we were in Mt. Cook, we went the Hooker track walk and found the box in his hidden place.
We had beautiful spots to Mt. Cook.

Thank you very much for this cache and many greetings from Germany.

Quick find. TFTC

I rather like this series and would like to add a Fine Pair to my cache hides. Oh dear, should never have told the Crow what I wanted! Admired the pair as we walked by and quickly found the cache.

TFTC Mr Crow

Full log to follow.

Log to follow

Out with the Crow on a walk around the area. Not the prettiest of signs but an interesting plaque. Cache quickly retrieved - I was tall enough to grab it - but the tall Crow replaced it. TFTC

#306 - 16.02.2017 18:47

Found it quick on our way back from Hooker Lake.

TFTC
JuGo81

Found this one together with Carane while doing the Hooker Valley Trail! Thanks for hiding!

Found this one together with BenniHamburg on our 1 month trip through NZ. Nice walk, easy find. TFTC

Nice container

Found the cache but was not able to get it out of the pipe as it was too far up for me to get to

Start of another day in crow country

Nice little hide

Nice hide.. good view of the power station

Nice little bison. Thanks

Yeah.. nicely on the sea wall... sun is out ????

Nice... thanks. Its turning into a lovely day

Another one of this cache type... seen a few of these on tge essex 100

There she is in all her greenness

Nice. Love the echoes of the birds and ducks

Purple patch of caches

Little silver... log is wet... can still be signed

A cache that promises premium quality on its lid.

Just were it should be

Found him.. after looking in tge wrong ivy

First dnf of the day. I did find the a possible place.. will check with mr crow

After a detour to get 11 a and b.. back to the wall

Nice cache

Nice.. thanks

Thanks

Needed the tweezers to extract this one. Thanks Mr Crow

Just where is should be

Very small. Thanks

Cool cache... first one like that. Thanks

Nice cache

Nice... thought the people in front of me had just visited it.... but no other name in tge log for today than me

Nice... didnt like the sign of new nettle growth

Nice little hide

Nice find. Long has been replaced

A little rest at the tarn and a quick grab of the cache (with the help of the Spoiler picture).

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed. TFTC

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed. TFTC

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed. TFTC

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed. TFTC

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed. TFTC

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed. TFTC

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed. TFTC

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed. TFTC

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed. TFTC

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed. TFTC

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed. TFTC

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed. TFTC

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed. TFTC

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed. TFTC

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed.

Our only DNF of the day here. We found the sign post and searched behind it but no sign of cache. Then Sian spotted the remnants of the broken sign in the ditch. We went into the ditch to search around but unfortunately didn't find it. Sorry to report the bad news. Thanks anyway

Feb/17/2017 - Sounds like it is missing. Added to my urgent maintenance list. If anyone is passing before me with a spare bison to hang on a hook ...

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed.

Now time for our picnic stop and what a great bench nearby to use. Beautiful views. Perfect! TFTC

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed. TFTC

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed. TFTC

Lovely walk with the Sayward Sleuths today. We had perfect weather and this was an ideal route of caches to do for the little Saywards who haven't been caching since last year. Many thanks to Mr. Crow for this series which we all enjoyed.

Our final Essex 100 cache for today. Will hopefully be back this way soon to complete some more of this series...Thanks again Mr. Crow. TFTC

Lovely cache again kiddies had great fun working out the clues x with GreatBritishBeef xx

I have had the coordinates for this puzzle for some time and stumbled upon them the other day when sorting through a pile of papers. Unfortunately there wasn't anything else so enlightening in the heap!

Before I had a chance to loose them again, I decided to head out to GZ Although I could see the container this was quite a difficult reach!

Thanks for the cache, Mr Crow.

I knew I could solve this Rally Round if I just persevered! In the end I resorted to small counters that I could move about on the print out. Took a while before I found what I was looking for. Saved the cache until today as time is against me. A quick find at GZ. Remembered to make a note of the bonus information.

Thanks, Mr Crow.

Lovely little cache kiddies had fun figuring out the clues with GreatBritizhBeef xx

Today we have a walk to Hooker Lake. On the way we found this cache quickly.
Thanks for showing this place and hidding the cache!!!
Greetings from Germany!

in: FP

Tftc. After having no signal and no saved list we had to drive till we had enough to down load list.

Tftc out with mother today

Tftc. Rather muddy walk today

Took Tunalilys geodog with us as I'm looking after him. Rather muddy along this part. Cache soon spotted and log signed. TFTC

Tftc. Another place that I've never visited before

Have never walked along here before but it's a lovely walk and no one else around. TFTC

Tftc. Lovely and peaceful here this morning

This was a little tricky to remove and place back but got there in the end. Turning out to be a nice day TFTC

Tftc. What great views. Bit breezy though

Glad the style had a dog door although the gate was open so used that itstead. Nice views across the water.

Tftc. A quick
Find here

Another easy find. Nice views and not another person insight TFTC

Tftc. One dog jumped the wall
And had to be hiked back over

Whilst I was finding the cache, mum was getting the dog back over the sea wall. Glad I took open this gate as didn't want to lift a German shepherd over the style. TFTC

Tftc. No dog door at last stile

I'm enjoying this walk, nice views, easy to find caches and best of all no muggles and cattle. TFTC

Tftc. Lots of geese flying around this morning

Saw lots of geese in the fields.

Tftc.

This to spot this as we walked up to it TFTC

Tftc. Log not looking too good but managed to initial it

Another easy find TFTC

Tftc. Wasn't sure we were going to be able to reach this one. Luckily pinkpeardrops has longer arms than me and she just managed to grab it with her finger tips

Finding the cache was easy, reaching the cache however was harder. Only just managed to pick it up whilst leaning right over the wall as I didn't fancy climbing over. Mother wasn't much help with this one. TFTC

Tftc. Getting quite warm now and one geo dog quite muddy

This little footpath was a bit muddy and one of the dogs decided to jump in a big puddle. TFTC

Tftc. Pinkpeardrops says I've found it then "oh no I haven't. Hope this isn't going to be a DNF !"then looks up and spies it.

This took a little searching for. Thought I found it but turn out it was just a stick, just as I said I hope it's not a DNF, I looked up and saw it. TFTC

What a shame our first DNF on this walk but reading previous logs it must be missing. Sorry but don't have spare bison

A lovely walk and as the other cachers have said it is missing. We did have a good look around the floor to see if we could find it.

Tftc. Another damp and ripped log. Sorry have no replacements. Signed initials

Another easy find and as Tizziewhiz said log is damp. We must start bringing small log books out with us. TFTC

Tftc. Log damp here too I'm afraid. Lovely peaceful place.

Easy spot. Managed to sting myself on the only stinging nettle around ouch TFTC

Managed to miss this one for some reason, will hopefully come back and find it another day

Tftc. A little climb here by yours truly and I spotted it. Replacing took longer

Mother did a little climb whilst I was being attacted by a tree. TFTC

Tftc. A lovely walk and series. Did miss out 14-20 so shall do those another day. Had to wait for muggle dog here who didn't like the look of our dogs

Our last one for this walk as we are going to do 14-20 another day. Had to wait for a muggle dog walker. TFTC

The plan today was to find RR077 - Pure Conjecture. I had an idea where this one could possibly be having found myself in an area last year that took me onto some permissive paths near the Jam Factory. However it just wasn't to be. Wondering where else to go that didn't involve a long drive, I decided to hunt this out. Having found the Magnet's Rally Round earlier in the week I had the information I needed (in photographic form at least). Eventually found a tool on the phone that I could use to work out the final coordinates. The plot looked very promising but the checker wouldn't load as it kept timing out. Decided to look anyway and was pleased to find the container in the first place I looked.

Thanks, Mr Crow.

Lovely!!

Awesome walk through the countryside and love the fact I learnt a bit about the village I live in.

No.6575

Out for a few finds this was a nice easy find. Picked up a TB to move along





TFTC Mr Crow

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No.6576


Soon had the details for GZ so off I went for a nice find.




TFTC Mr Crow

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Great to be back into solving some RR's and this was our first one for ages. Great puzzle that was finally eggecuted and the cache found safe and sound. A fav from us, not just for the puzzle, but also getting us back into using our grey matter again. TFTC. # 2611

Well, we've looked at this one before and it seemed simple but the 3 wins never materialised. Revisiting now and with the odds changed it only took 3 attempts. Never did we think we'd be cheering on little cars racing across the screen! A quick walk to GZ and the cache was in hand. A favourite from us for a location we didn't know existed in a village we lived in for 10 years! Fab puzzle too obviously! Second of 3 solved in the last week can we keep up the form? TFTC #2612

No.6577

Crunched the numbers and a swift walk to GZ no problems with the find.





TFTC Mr Crow

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Dipping TB






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A great walk on a great day, all the better for finding this cache. Greetings from England.
TFTC

This was an ideal one to send the Geokiddies in to and the middle kiddie was successful he was so happy to exchange a reward for his efforts TFTC

A very different puzzle from the previous RR021, this one took a considerable while to solve.
The neatly placed cache was soon in hand this afternoon.
Thank you for the pleasure this gave us Mr Crow.

This one took a lot of solving, the ability to count correctly would certainly have saved a lot of time.
The cache however was a very quick find this afternoon.
Thank you Mr Crow for yet another well thought out puzzle.

Thoroughly enjoyed solving this puzzle, once we found the way in.
The work involved in placing this is incredible and we learnt a lot of interesting facts throughout.
Pleased to leave a favourite point here for such a pleasing puzzle.
Thank you Mr Crow for the cache and a most enjoyable caching afternoon.

Another very well thought out and interesting puzzle to solve.
A beautiful afternoon for a caching trip to Mr Crow Country.
Cache soon spotted, log signed and replaced.
Pleased to leave a favourite point here.
Thank you Mr Crow.

The second part was a nightmare, would have been helpful had l kept a list of all the numbers that l tried in the checker! Eventually beat it into submission, probably much to the CO's relief.
Thank you Mr Crow for the "fun" puzzle.

An enjoyable and quick to solve puzzle for us.
Spot on coords, led to a nice quick find on a beautiful sunny afternoon.
Thank you Mr Crow for the pleasure this gave.

Had a reasonable plot but unable to get the checker to agree, but thought it was worth a look while in the area this afternoon.
Heather spotted it hiding in the first place she looked.
Thank you Mr Crow for another unusual puzzle.

Another quick find- this time a VK find. Many thanks for placing this cache

We headed down to the relative safety from Storm Doris behind the sea wall. This cache was on view to any person that may have passed by! A prickly find- glad this was winter! Many thanks for placing this cache

A brisk walk along the sea wall made hot work for us! Another quick find here- many thanks for placing this cache

The slope fell away gently, passing lovely farm buildings. At GZ it took a bit of a search. The size was much bigger than we expected and was found exactly where we had started! The wind was at it's worse here, and the River Blackwater looked choppy. Canadian and Brent geese adorned the muddy marshes. Many thanks for placing this cache

The nearby River Blackwater framed a few farmhouses, just down the track from GZ. The ivy clad hedges here at GZ always stir a certain amount of fear among the Geocaching community. It did take a few minutes, all the time a wind blasting through the gap!" Many thanks for placing this cache

We continued a;long the track- to the left the archetypal ploughed field, hedging to the right! We arrived at a small corner where a patch of new trees were busy hanging on to their ground in this blustery wind! A nice quick find- many thanks for placing this cache

We continued along the lane and could see the likely spot for GZ. A few metallica's search later the cache was in hand- many thanks for placing this cache

We chose a square walk of caches for today! We parked a short way up the road from this cache and in the wind of the oncoming Doris winter storm we soon found ourselves at GZ and a short search later the cache was in hand- many thanks for placing this cache

The final cache for this blustery day, and for the square we had set for ourselves. A little bit of a search but many thanks for placing this cache

Something spooked Poppy here but for all our searching whatever had spooked Poppy didn't show itself to us! Many thanks for placing this cache

We retraced our steps back down Page's Lane to access this footpath. Jap was to cross the ditch and soon had this cache in hand- collected the TB. Many thanks for placing this cache

We continued along and could see that infamous farm-house. Fortunately a quick find- snails tried protecting this cache! Many thanks for placing this cache

Both sides of the track before we eventually found this cache. Many thanks for placing this cache

We passed a few houses, farm buildings, sheep (brown and white gazing disinterestedly at us) and ther cache. A short walk back and another quick find. Many thanks for placing this cache

Continuing along a well defined track, with tractor tyre marks encrusted in time, saw us soon arrive at GZ. Searched both sides as at here the GPS wouldn't quite settle. Many thanks for placing this cache

Back across fields away from the stronger winds saw us soon arrive at GZ. Special Geotools required here- gardening gloves as this cache was too difficult to unscrew with bare hands. Many thanks for placing this cache

This felt like we had missed the correct path but the loop indeed led to another path. Across the bridge and a sharp turn to the left saw a quick find. Many thanks for placing this cache

We love Sudokus and thought we would rattle this off sharpish. A few 'hours' later (after restarting the process a few times) we finally had the correct answer. A simple concept but much harder in reality though it was probably us making it that way! Another favourite from us. Which RR shall we tackle next? TFTC #2613

I solved this one along time ago but never got round to finding it.

Things have been a little quiet at work recently so I dug out some of my old solved Mystery cache pages and spotted that this was close to my office. I decided to grab it in my lunch hour.

Parked up close by and had a windy walk across the fields and a quick find on arrival.

Thanks you to Mr Crow for the cache

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Having been away for a few days and returning feeling really unwell I wasn't sure I could keep my run going but my muggle offered to take for a quick cache and dash. As I had solved this previously and not been able to reach it I took him up on his kind offer. It was dark and raining when we arrived but this time the cache was in my reach and the deed was done quickly. Back home to recover now and hope I feel better tomorrow.???? Thanks for placing the cache Mr Crow.

Doris is about to dump on us so we finished early at Abberton having battened down everything likely to move which gave me the chance to call in here for a quick find, having solved the puzzle 2wks ago, after a quick visit to Gt. Totham N for its pair.

TFTC

Doris is about to dump on us so we finished early at Abberton having battened down everything likely to move which gave me the chance to call in here for a quick find, having solved the puzzle 2wks ago.

TFTC

Feb/23/2017 - OK here.
Feb/09/2017 - Shamed. Gillywig went and had a short poke around today and found the old cache and returned it to me! Amazing. Thank you.

Easy to spot in winter! must approach from correct direction! TFTC

Having done the hard work several weeks ago and after asking for an update from Mr Crow I completed all I needed to find the cache. Today still feeling under the weather I got my muggle to drive me to near the gz. It was a quick find with lovely accurate co-ordinates for which I was very grateful.???? Managed to time my find between passing muggles. Who would have thought there would be so much passing footfall! I must confess as we drove away I realised I had signed the wrong date, I was sure it was the 25th????. Thanks for the cache Mr Crow I really enjoyed this one. Favourite point.

Why take the direct route when you can take the lovely scenic route.

The route that takes you over mountain passes with tiny narrow wiggly roads.

The route that has you building bridge to cross raging rivers.

The route that has you saying 'Doh!' when you suddenly see it

This was lovely.

I took a lovely meandering stroll across my notebook armed only with my pencil and glass of rum and coke...I wandered here and there. Stumbling over the odd tree root. Putting my foot in rabbit and badger holes. I toyed with an idea for quite a while but all my plots as I am sure you have seen were miles away! That's ok I thought. Sometimes that's how it is and things will unfound later.

I read and read the cache page. My scribbles looked like an early map across the Himalayas. Base camp was marked, as were other stopping points. Where was I heading...

Into oblivion?

I stepped back from the huge gapping hole. Teetering on the edge...when...

BANG!!!

There it was!

Head in hands...I sighed and laughed!

It wasn't long after that the map was carefully folded and put to one side and another less treacherous one was begun...

There would be no balancing at the edge of cliffs with vehicles thundering past this time...

And my only wrestling was with my 83ES

It is lovely to put another RR find in my caching basket and solving this has bought a smile to my face. I should have spotted this instantly

Thank you Mr Crow for another fun puzzle and thank you for placing this cache.

Conglomerate of usual metallic things visited...

Found on my Hiking Trip to the Glacier

A nice trip into the forest with Jen and little man Elias (decided to carry him the whole way...!) Jen doing the hunting as its not easy ducking and diving with a small person on your back...!

Found nice and easy - TFTC.

Another nice easy find - a fav point as we thought this was a really good cache container ;-)

TFTC

Yay - three in a row and sun has come out for a little bit...

TFTC

Thought we was going in the wrong direction for a bit, but found eventually - lots of leaves about!

Picked up a TB whilst at this one, will move it on asap.

TFTC

This one took much longer than it should have.... but found eventually - blasted leaves everywhere...!

TFTC

Yay - completed all 6!! Jen almost took a dip in the pond, luckily it ended up being just a big hole...!

TFTC, and Thanks for setting up the series - Andy, Jen and little man Elias.