St. Fanurius of Geo: Patron Saint Of Great Caches Past

Bubble Bubble Toil & Trouble was the end cache of a many-part multi-mystery. I don't remember exactly how many BBTT parts there were, but I think there were 16 parts. You needed to find parts of codes as well as a decoder strip in order to calculate the coords to the end cache.

A lot of trouble you might think, but the end cache was a HUGE ammo box (20MM) which made this a very great large final. Goldsnoop, the owner of this great puzzle, obtained permission from the police chief and borough supervisor to keep the cache behind a shrub outside the North East Police Department... what location could be safer from muggles?

Well, an underling at the police dept spotted this box and hadn't been told what it was. The bomb squad was called, and after a long story, they blew it up. Many people had very nearly completed the BBTT series, but now the end cache was gone.

Goldsnoop acquired a new large ammo box and added an extra piece to the puzzle for the rest of us to get to it. Of course, it is no longer outside the police department 😉

It was a great series with a giant surprise at the end; that is why it was so special. You can read the whole story here:

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[This entry was edited by kiawa on Monday, March 14, 2005 at 8:47:05 AM.]

Dropping off St Fanuirius of Geo Patron Saint of Great Caches Past.

This cache was set up as part of a series of caches, set up by Edinburgh cachers, on the Water of Leith walkway through Edinburgh. The walkway is 12 miles long and runs from Balerno at the foot of the Pentland Hills, to Leith docks on the Firth of Forth. The first cache of the series 'A Silver Thread in a Ribbon of Green' (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=844172b2-6213-4d6d-a37f-2b92f0a225c1)- which is how the Water of Leith is described - has all the information about the cache trail along the walkway. The cache series inspired the 2nd SGDO (Scottish Geocachers Day Out)(http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=05684bf6-a7ac-4661-827a-f5726de1eb19).

This cache was placed on a stretch of the walkway that used to be a railway line, now long gone. However the station house and platform remain and the cache was hidden in a hole in the platform. Unfortunately it was muggled, was replaced for the event, muggled again and replaced in another smaller hole as a micro, which was then muggled for the third time. I decided that it was not worth replacing as clearly someone was on the look out for it. This was a shame since it decreased the number of caches available on the WoL cache trail.

This cache was located at the so-called "Holy Mountain" - the well know bavarian monastry "Kloster Andechs". But before you were able to find the cache you had to solve a really difficult riddle: It was about real bavarian culture.

Once you were at the monastry, you could taste all the up-sides of the southern state: A very beatiful church, an amazing view towards th Alps and of course it's legendary beer.
This was one of the best caches I've ever found.