11 in 11 Souvenir

Well Groundspeak won't let the Geolympix team have this as an official souvenir under the souvenirs tab but I can display my 11 icons in 11 hours souvenir elsewhere. How about here?

Cryptic hint to my next cache hide

Well this morning was a bit like Christmas morning for me, tearing open three parcels and finding some great goodies inside! (See photo)

What on earth?! Are you able to work out why I have bought these things for my new cache hide? Hint: it'll be a challenge cache... Laterz

On your radar

Saw something I didn't know existed yesterday when I did Spy Stone cache near Chilbolton. According to the cache description, the huge radar seen across the field is the world's largest fully steerable meteorological radar. Known as the Observatory, it studies rain, cloud and ice and helps with research for improved weather forecasting for the effects on communication systems and understanding climate change.

Would have been cool to go have a closer look...

A strange experience in East Grimstead...

Now I used to live a few miles away from a town called East Grinstead in Sussex so when I was driving through Wiltshire yesterday, I was very surprised to see a small village called East Grimstead. What was even more bizarre was what greeted me as I drove through it.

First I noticed that there were two incredibly creepy mannequins outside someone's house. I took a photo but it scares the crap out of me so much that just looking at it again, let alone reposting it here would be nothing short of masochism. Slightly (and only slightly) less creepy was the straw-made effigies of Red Riding Hood and the wolf near a Silver Jubilee memorial.

A little further along was a giant snail on someone's hedge. I only caught a glimpse as I drove by, but when I came back I had to pull over for a better look.

It was only then that I realised the nearby phone box had no phone, but instead a selection of books, presumably for exchange. I had a look at the titles but nothing took my fancy.

A Year Lost to Geocaching - and I've loved it!

On 4th June 2012 I finally managed to colour in every single date on my caching calendar. Why did I do this? Well, apart from the completeness factor, I was aiming to pick up a nearby Challenge cache, A Year, Lost! by Mario McTavish, one who has cached for well over 1000 days straight now (nutter!). If I'd had the time, and the determination I would have wanted to get at least one cache a day for a year, but as it was I only sought to fill holes in my calendar not previously filled from previous years. I am glad I left this cache for a milestone, namely 1600, and I think I will continue to aim for a challenge cache at every 100 milestone unless something really special pops up (e.g. a Mega, a highly-favourited cache, a historic cache, etc.) So what will be my next milestone? Thinking either Caching Olympics Bronze (find 25 caches in a day - achieved), Elementary challenge (get GC codes with element symbols in them) or International cacher challenge (cache in six countries).