✊ KNOCK ✊—Geocache of the Week
“Shave and a haircut—two bits!”
Many will recognize this iconic tune, often heard in the form of a knock, but did you know that it could one day help you find a geocache? Come hum along with us as we open the door to our Geocache of the Week, ✊ KNOCK ✊(GCABKD6).
Geocachers will begin their visit with a short stroll alongside the River Trent in Wilford, a village in the Nottingham district. With the river on one side and the historic St. Wilfrid’s Church on the other, there are plenty of sights to captivate you on your way to the cache.
It’s easy to get swept up in the history here, but there’s a cache to find!
When approaching GZ, one might walk right past the geocache, mistaking it for a functioning door knocker. Skillfully crafted into the face of a lion, this knocker blends right in to its surroundings. Upon further inspection, however, you might notice that it’s not intended for visitors at all—it’s for geocachers!
Recognizing this expertly-crafted gadget cache is only the first step. Now it’s time to figure out how to reach the logbook. You try everything: knocking politely, knocking sternly, looking for a doorbell to use instead—but despite your best efforts, it seems like nobody is home.
Then you remember a geocacher’s best-kept (pretty obvious) secret: the cache page! Here, the CO has provided instructions on how to easily obtain the logbook, no doorbell needed. It’s time to search your memory bank—or the internet—for the tune that you need.
With the famous jingle of “Shave and a Haircut” knocking around in your mind, you perform the melody on the device in front of you. The flashing green LED indicates that you’ve got it right, and the petling cache container soon drops down to the cup below!
Various cachers in the logs share their delight upon cracking the code. As lonesomebluesounds recalls:
“This might just be one of the best caches I’ve ever done! It took me a while to get the lights to agree with me as I was missing out a beat. But once I’d figured out where I was going wrong out popped the cache… quite literally!”
Having signed the logbook and replaced the geocache per the cache owner’s instructions, it’s time to take leave. Geocachers won’t leave this cache empty handed, though. There will always be the incredible memories… and the jingle that’s forever stuck in their heads!
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