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Tag Archives: Watford
Scouts Geocaching Activity Badge
Way back at the end of August last year, I posted an article about starting to work on the Scouts geocaching badge with Sam and some friends. An update on the situation is well overdue and whilst I said I … Continue reading
Posted in Finding Geocaches, Geocaching, Hiding Geocaches
Tagged badge, Geocaching, Hertfordshire, scouting, Scouts, Watford, whippendell
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Scouting out and about in Cassiobury Park
When Sam moved up from cubs to scouts in 2014, I was browsing through the available badges to see if there were any that we might be able to work on as a family. Naturally my first thought was to … Continue reading
Geo-Poké-cach-mon-ing
As per my post from last week, Pokémon Go? iPhone says Pokémon No!, it was clear that playing Pokémon Go on our current phones was not going to happen. On Thursday we went into town and I came home with … Continue reading
Posted in Finding Geocaches, Geocaching
Tagged Geocaching, iPhone, Pokémon Go, Samsung, Watford
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Dinosaurs, Crocodiles and Thieving Dogs – A PugWash Adventure in Watford
As March rolled around, it had been almost 6 months since we had been out caching with our friends Geoff and Melissa on a PugWash adventure. It wasn’t for the want to trying, but that annoying thing called life kept … Continue reading
Posted in Finding Geocaches, Geocaching
Tagged Cassiobury, Geocaching, Grand Union Canal, Hertfordshire, pugwash, Watford
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Locking in the Leap Year
It comes but once every 4 years and so finding a cache on 29th February was an absolute “must do”. Other geocachers who have been attempting to find a cache on every date of the year have been waiting for … Continue reading
Posted in Finding Geocaches, Geocaching
Tagged Football Focus, Geocaching, Leap Year, Watford
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MiniKnight’s Moving Cache
You may well be aware of those elusive travelling geocaches. You know the ones… you know… the ones you get a sniff of on social media or get a tip off about from fellow geocachers, but never actually manage to … Continue reading
Posted in Geocaching
Tagged dumb stuff geocachers do, Geocaching, Hertfordshire, moving geocaches, school bus, travelling geocaches, Watford
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A Handy bit of caching in Oxhey Woods
Keen to take a break from school uniform and supplies shopping – Sam is off to secondary school in September – I suggested a spot of geocaching. Something local and not too many was the response I got and so … Continue reading
Posted in Finding Geocaches, Geocaching
Tagged Creative Caches, Geocaching, Hertfordshire, Watford, woodland walks
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In search of Watford’s first ever cache
Whilst on a recent caching adventure in Whippendell woods (see Scouting About – A PugWash Adventure), I convinced everyone to join with me on a mini-pilgrimage to find the first cache ever placed in the Watford area. This might not … Continue reading
Posted in Finding Geocaches, Geocaching
Tagged Archived Geocaches, Geocaching, Hertfordshire, historic geocaches, The Hornet, Watford
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Scouting About – A PugWash Adventure
It was way back in March that we last teamed up with our friends Geoff and Melissa (a.k.a. Smokeypugs) for a team PugWash caching adventure and although we had talked a number of times about unfurling the sails and casting … Continue reading
Posted in Finding Geocaches, Geocaching
Tagged Chief Scout, Geocaching, Hertfordshire, pugwash, Scouts, Watford, Whippendell Woods, woodland walks
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πevents³ = 1000 milestone
This Saturday just gone was PI day. What the heck is that I hear you ask. Well, if you subscribe to the american date format, which america assume the entire world does but actually only they do, then the date … Continue reading
Posted in Finding Geocaches, Geocaching, Geocaching Events
Tagged 1000, Cassiobury Park, Geocaching, Hertfordshire, Milestone, PI day, souvenir, Watford
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