Has Geocaching taken over your life? Think whether some of the
following are true for you:
- Each time you enter the supermarket, you feel drawn to the
tupperware section.
- If it's not the tupperware, it's the toy / party section
looking for items small enough to fit inside tupperware
containers.
- Every pile of stones seems to be a potential Geocache hiding
place.
- You check your email many times a day for potential new caches
in your area. You may even have special software installed on your
computer which does this for you.
- You've had your GPSr confiscated "for your own good".
- You no longer visualize/think of the area in terms of streets
and addresses but rather cache locations.
- No matter who you are with, you can't resist pointing out a
nearby cache when passing.
- You realize you can now read the hints without clicking
“Decrypt” or looking at the key.
- You get distracted watching films because you keep scanning the
background scenery, thinking, “That’d be a GREAT place
for a cache!”
- The police have taken an interest in your suspicious behaviour
while caching. More than once.
- While everyone else puts a quid in the coffee fund in the
office, you TAKE a quid and leave a Travel Bug.
- The police take an interest in the sheer number of small
plastic bags you buy when you visit the supermarket.
- The location of nearby caches is one of the most important
considerations when planning a holiday.
- You break out into a cold sweat when you can't lay your hands
on your GPSr when getting ready for a caching trip.
If you can relate to more than a couple of these then this cache
is for you.
There are some among us (and you know who you are) when they
look at their first page showing the 25 nearest caches to their
home location who feel a sense of pride and have a glowing feeling
in the belly every time they scan down the list and see ticks next
to every single item. Many have extended this list to the second
and third page too.
Then, that new cache suddenly appears on the list with one
purpose in mind. It sits there on the list, like an unblinking eye
taunting you. It says "Find me... I'm waiting for you!". Even
though the sun hasn't risen, you're out on the road with the hope
of getting yet another First to Find.
Once found, all is well again in the world - that list looks
nice and complete and order is restored.
The challenge of this cache is simple. Can you show the world
that you're not an addict to your hobby and resist finding it?
- There is no invigorating walk.
- There are no breathtaking views.
- There is no First to Find trophy to find or other cool pieces
of cache swag to trade for. In fact, the cache is a micro and
contains nothing but a logbook. And it's probably damp too.
- The cache is hidden in the corner of a large, seemingly
uninteresting field, at most 2 minutes from the parked car.
In fact, the only thing you have to gain from searching out this
cache is just adding another find to your total.
"I'm hiding under here - come and find meee...."
Thanks to the other similarly themed caches around the world
for the idea and also for the material used in the description.
This is the only one of its kind in Wales and there are two others
in the United Kingdom at the time of publication.
All I ask is that, just in case you succumbed to temptation and
genuinely wanted to log it as a DNF as you suspect the cache is
missing, please contact me directly so that I can investigate as
there are many fun DNF being logged for this cache by long distance
cachers who, in the spirit of this cache want to let us all know
they're not going to find it!