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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

May 12of12 2009

My friends, TLC and XX and I start our day at Starbucks and then drive down to IB to find the Bird Watch series of geocaches and a few others as well. They are well spaced out and we probably walked about 3 miles around the marshy estuary. The weather was perfect and except for the noisy helicopter that was practising landing and taking off and seemed to always fly right over us when we stopped to find a cache we were almost the only people about.





























































































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Monday, February 23, 2009

Sad news

Just returned from an unexpected trip to the uk to help my mum as my dad died on the 3rd February. We had the funeral on the 17th and scattered his ashes at his favourite place on Friday. It's been a busy few days. Flew back to LAX on Saturday and have a great deal to catch up on.

Monday, January 26, 2009

PAD

I'm doing Photo a Day on my photoblog page www.photoblog.com/epiphany4sb
I'll save this blog for 12 of 12 and Stu's pad challenges.
My water themed photos were taken at Brighton W. Sussex January 15th 2009





Thursday, September 11, 2008

Fungus for Henners


Wednesday, August 13, 2008

12 of 12 August













I went geocaching for the day with my friends TLC and XX, we found 17 caches 2 of which I had found before. NCC have a challenge running at the moment called 52 Pick Up. 53 caches have been hidden and I quote the write up of one: "This cache is only one of a complete deck of hides placed around Northern San Diego County, from Del Mar to Oceanside, to Carlsbad, to Escondido, by members of North County Cachers. Thirteen of us have each placed one set of caches, Diamonds, Hearts, Spades and Clubs, of varying difficulty and size. The first three are traditional hides and each will reveal clues to the fourth card -- everyone’s Club card -- a puzzle cache.
Only by collecting the information you find in all 13 Club caches (Ace through King) will you be able to determine the location of our final, ultimate challenge -- 52 Pickup: The Joker!" As we are only doing easy ones in the heat at the moment it will take us a while to get them all but we are slowly working on them. Today we found 4 including one of the puzzle ones. None of my photos give away locations!

Friday, June 13, 2008

June 12 of 12

Not just another day but my dd's birthday. But lucky for her and sadly for me she's off to Las Vegas for a long weekend and I didn't get a chance to take any photos of her before she left!
I did however go geocaching with my new geocaching cohort The Lost Clan. We had a mixed day with 9 finds and 6 DNFs (did not finds)in Escondido. I drove and she navigated.



My van's mileometer is not quite right but I took this at the start of our morning.



TLC's first find of the day. The next find was much the same.



Big & Red, a find after a DNF



TLC had offered to replace this cache as the original had gone missing. I still claim it as a find of course!




This took us a little longer than it should have but it was a very pleasant area and we were being serenaded (or was it mocked) by a very noisy Mockingbird on the telegraph pole by us!



This was near another DNF the clue was 'A Pie' I thought of apple pie when I saw this but could not find the cache by Condorman. I did see a lovely Red Tail Hawk though.



I think this was the only find I made, too many Nascar caches in Temecula made us expect something else from the name of this cache!



This one was in a drain and even on a beautiful day like today I was a little wary of a flash flood so did not think to take a photo until we were almost back at the van. No hints in these photos!




Our final cache of the day was also not found. TLC and I have looked for this twice now and have even had further clues from the placer but again we came up empty handed. Someone has found it in between our DNFs, so we are feeling that we must have missed something totally obvious!!




Linda and I went our separate ways and I came home and made myself a toasted chicken and cheese sandwich, I like them extra crispy!



After lunch I made a scrapbook layout which I posted on my favourite Lifetime Moments board.

Friday, May 23, 2008

my cousin Marion