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Goodbye 2019 Hello 2020

January 1, 2020Posted in Geocaching AdventuresTagged 2019, 2020, back in the game, blogging, Cache, caches, caching, East Yorkshire, family, Family day out, Family fun, fun, Geocache, Geocachers, Geocaching, Geocaching HQ, GilmourFamily, Jennifer Gilmour, life, New Year, New Year’s Day, New Year’s Eve, Riley, Robyn, sophie, souvenirs, The Gilmours, walk, walking, YorkshireLeave a comment

When we found out there were souvenirs to be claimed on the last day of 2019 and the first day of 2020; we couldn’t avoid the urge.

Souvenirs in the Geocaching world are like digital badges on your profile and throughout your Geocaching adventures, sometimes there will be a challenge set to achieve them and sometimes it will because you found a cache in a different country.

To claim the individual souvenirs we had to find one cache on each day and I am glad to say that we DIT IT! We actually did it in 2018 as well but in 2017 we only managed to claim one as we were away.

New Year’s Eve and we managed to find a Geocache very local to us, we like to keep a few for emergency caching. Thankfully we can find micro’s nice and easy now. Our last cache of 2019 was Priory Road Cache and Dash (GC676GF).

Our caching year totals so far:

2017- 191

2018- 134

2019- 102

Despite the decline in finds we absolutely love Geocaching and 2020 we are going to aim to increase our finds. Things are a little different as we are now a family that works from home full time. We are looking forward to 2020.

2020 arrived and Rob is going to remind us all of this moment, the first find of the new year. A quick magnetic find and not that far from us, we were near Riplingham. 100 yards (GC6RKAD).

We didn’t stop there, we went on to find three more and had a lovely fresh New Years Day walk. We would have done more but it was a bitter cold despite the sun shining bright on us.

You can see they were all excited to be back out caching again but it can get competitive. Your dog will like this one (GC6RK9R).

Two new badges and an exciting caching year ahead planned.

The Gilmours

Webcam Cache in Leeds

April 22, 2018Posted in Geocaching AdventuresTagged back in the game, BGT, Britain’s got talent, Cache, concert, fun, Geocaching, hubby, Leeds, life, love, Tokio Myers, webcam, webcam cacheLeave a comment

Tuesday 17th the hubby and I were about to enjoy our first night out away from children in Leeds. We had planned to see Tokio Myers who we had personally dedicated ourselves to when seeing him on BGT last year, his first audition struck us and we had said how we would support him as an indie artist if he wasn’t going to make it. We had no idea that he was going to win BGT!

Right outside the venue was a webcam cache and it was our FIRST ever cache of this type so we had decided to go and get it! It was rather humorous been able to see ourselves on the webcam page as we were stood looking at our phones and trying to work out if it was us or not. We moved apart from each other and refreshed the page and then we saw it on our screen – confirmation!

All you had to do was post a screenshot of the image with you on it as well as the date/time etc.

An easy cache that will be remembered for an eventful evening.

A few pics from the concert.

Happy Caching

Jennifer

Back in the game.. or not?

January 3, 2018Posted in Geocaching AdventuresTagged back in the game, caches, family, fun, Geocaching, life, love, walkingLeave a comment

At the weekend we celebrated New Years over at our relatives in Cheshire it was a perfect opportunity to consider getting back in the game of Geocaching.

I then received an email to alert us that we would get a special souvenir badge for our profile if we found a cache on New Years Eve and another for New Years Day. Admittedly it encouraged us.

On New Years Eve we found a cache and a dash close to Nan’s nursing home, we were chuffed as it had been a while since we had cached.

This is the badge we received.

On New Years Day there were a couple in walking distance from Mums home, she had already told us as a converted Geocacher herself (2000SamJack).

We walked confidently to the near by caches and the kids were all excited. We couldn’t find the first which was expected as we noticed there was a few DNF’s (Did Not Find) before us. Never mind we thought going on our way to the next cache. Amongst the ivy it said, we hunted for 15 minutes and no luck, we decided ivy is one of our worst enemies.

Heads down we plodding back for lunch and unfortunately we didn’t have the chance to gain the badge as we had no time to do more caching.

Are we back in the game? Or not? That’s the question!

Jennifer and us all