Caches

So what's a Cache - there a a number of different types, all of which have a few things in common : published lat long co-ordinates of the location, either exactly or close to the final with hints / clues of how to get there, and some way of loggin that the cache has been found.  Of the caches we have hidden (or adopted) most are traditional, but there are a number of multi's, puzzles and one virtual - added before TPTB declared them non valid for the geocaching community.

Our very first find was Roman Remains, closely followed by Roman Coins and Roman Road - by Lassitude.  After GeoCaching for a few weeks and collecting loads of ideas we were ready to place our first one and found that the challenge of where to put a cache is nearly as big as finding one.   Our first cache placement was The Royal Berkshire Hotel.

Many cache finds and hides later came a request on the forums by Lassitude to adopt his caches as he was no longer an active geocacher.  As 3 of these caches were the first 3 we found, and we have found the other 2 since then, we could not miss the opportunity to add 5 great caches to our set.  Many thanks Lassitude...

Somehow this event brought to Sue mind the words "Who would have thought all those caches ago that we would end up adopting the very first three caches we found"   knowing it was almost the first few words of War of the Worlds, but just not quite.  This really bugged at us until G came up with the real words...

" No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets. And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us. "

and what is even sadder, managed to paraphrase them exactly. We also added a 4th Roman into the collection - Roman Spa.

A couple of weeks later Mr Dewdrop requested someone to adopt all of his - we agreed to take on a few taking our total to 37.