Author: Dan Q
Dan Q is a software engineer, a director of a voluntary organisation, a trainee counsellor, a keen geocacher, and an amateur magician. He lives with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous triad, and occasionally finds time to blog.
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Found GC6VYK0 Riverdance
This checkin to GC6VYK0 Riverdance reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. We were slightly concerned about this one, given the cache description. Wading across a river didn't sound fun given recent floods: it could be deeper and faster than expected. Fortunately there turns out to be a bridge here now, …
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Found GC6VYJC Love Shack
This checkin to GC6VYJC Love Shack reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Some muggles were sitting on the nearby barrier so some stealth was required for us to carefully retrieve and return this one. TFTC.
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Found GC6VYJ1 Pump Up The Volume
This checkin to GC6VYJ1 Pump Up The Volume reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Sent my mother in to to a variety of holes in boulders to try to find this one before we picked it up and had the cache - and its bonus number - in-hand!
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Found GC6VYHH Under The Boardwalk
This checkin to GC6VYHH Under The Boardwalk reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Power-walking on around the trail we quickly found the clue object. I figured it was worth braving the (high) water and getting below the bridge, so I scrambled down and soon found the cache. Good location!
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Found GC6VYHC California Dreamin'
This checkin to GC6VYHC California Dreamin' reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. We quickly circled this tree before spotting the right location. Good colour for this cache container. Making a note of the number, we pressed on...
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Found GC6VYGY Absolute Beginners
This checkin to GC6VYGY Absolute Beginners reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My mother and I are visiting Ireland (from Lancashire, UK and Oxfordshire, UK, respectively) on a mission to find geohashpoints in previously-unexplored graticules, and find a few carefully-selected geocaches along the way. Today we were our near Kilsheelan, …
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Found GC6QJDW Cahir Castle
This checkin to GC6QJDW Cahir Castle reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF for my mum and I on our way from this graticule's hashpoint (after a successful geohashing expedition) to visit the castle. Logbook very full, will soon need replacing. TFTC.
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Gorgeous view of Slievenamon towering over Kilsheelan, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, as seen from Gurteen Wood, where my mother and I are just on our way back from our successful expedition to the 2024-11-24 52 -7 geohashpoint.
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Under a blue-white sky, a rounded hill towers over a fertile green valley dotted with little white houses, as seen from between the trees of an ancient forest.
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Geohashing expedition 2024-11-24 52 -7
On our first full day in Ireland, my mother and I found our way to a hashpoint in a virgin graticule, by stomping our way through an overgrown abandoned pasture.
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With Storm Bert raining off our plans for geohashing in Co. Limerick, my mother and I are off into a forest in Co. Tipperary in search of a hashpoint over this way. It's still pretty wet though.
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A woman wearing a grey bobble hat and a blue coat walks away down a forest track.
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Step 2: brave the fierce weather surrounding Storm Bert and head out into rural Ireland in search of a geohashpoint.
But first, the crucial step 1: a big ol' bacon and egg sarnie for breakfast.
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Bacon and egg sandwich on granary bread, with two bites taken out of it.
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Balance bikes are just better
Sean McP justifies why balance bikes are better than stabilisers (training wheels) for kids to learn to cycle, and I ponder the possibility of popping the pedals off our youngest's first bike, perhaps later this year.
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Found GC4MDNM Foynes Forest Find
This checkin to GC4MDNM Foynes Forest Find reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My mother and I are out in the West of Ireland in search of geohashpoints. Today's attempt to find the 2024-11-22 52 -8 hashpoint was blocked by the river Arra breaking its banks and flooding our route, …
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Found GC9DV9V GST 65 - Centre of tree
This checkin to GC9DV9V GST 65 - Centre of tree reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Recent winds have blown down trees here but thankfully not this one. My mum stretched to reach the hiding place and soon had the cache in hand.
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Found GC9DV9P GST 64 - Lift me up buttercup
This checkin to GC9DV9P GST 64 - Lift me up buttercup reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. We almost gave up trying to find the hint object before spotting something that once had the colour of a buttercup but has since enjoyed some extra camouflage! Retrieving the cache was a …