Adventures of a Bolas Heathen

We’ve had a Whereigo cache live for quite a while now. It’s a nice walk around the North Shropshire town of Whitchurch and takes a light-hearted look at the town’s historic clock-making industry (it’s more interesting than it sounds – honest!). We have a self-imposed rule of not hiding micros, so in the case of [...]

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A local cacher contacted us late last week as they could not find our Jeep Challenge cache. After checking they had correctly solved the puzzle I gave some more hints about how to find the cache. They went back and still could not find the cache. Hmmm … it *should* be an easy find. I [...]

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When we got back from a day caching around Manchester on Saturday evening, we spotted a new cache not too far from home which looked like a good one. On Sunday morning, the children were settling down to watch a film, but it was a glorious day outside and they should not be indoors missing [...]

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Two new caches came out last night that were not too far from home. This morning it was such a nice day I thought I’d pop out to go and look for them. We’ve all but given up chasing FTF’s seriously but we thought we might be in with a chance. On the way to [...]

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The weather was beautiful all morning so by lunchtime I could not resist popping out to bag a few new caches. The first was in Coalbrookdale, near Ironbridge and by our friends The Pirates Of Shropshire. The most obvious place to park was a Pay & Display and as time was short, I paid my [...]

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We’d done a few caches during the week with the aim of making our 6000th find achievable this weekend. Only 22 caches to find to get the milestone today, so we picked what looked like a nice area and a set of caches that were getting good logs. We don’t usually go this far up [...]

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We had some free tickets to the Homebuilding and Renovation Show at the NEC so stopped by for a quick cache on the way into the show. Handily enough, the cache was literally half way on the walk from the car park to the show hall (I could not have planned it better myself!). The [...]

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We had an email from a new cache finder who has 19 finds yesterday. They had done all the legwork on our Newport By Numbers cache but could not find the cache. What they described sounded like the right area to be looking but we know the cache can be quite a tricky one to [...]

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This morning, as I was settling down to the day’s work I spotted three caches within 10 miles of home that had just come out. I could not resist. 10 minutes later and I was at GZ for the first one, by the Shropshire Union canal in a field. I scanned all around the abandoned [...]

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