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Episode: 2921
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Title: HPR2921: Geocaching with the family
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2921/hpr2921.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-24 13:19:28
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This is HPR episode 2921 entitled Geocaching with the Family It is hosted by the Loveburg
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and is about 49 minutes long and Karim a clean flag.
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The summer is May and his family take a wander around that we're looking for Geocaching.
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Hi my name is Dave the Loveburg and welcome to another exciting possibly episode of Hacker
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Public Radio. What you're about to hear is just showing a 50 minutes of a combination of
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soundscape random netter and a concerted effort to find something we've never seen in a place
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we've never been. I hope you find it both useful and enjoyable into the woods we go.
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Oh how much miles how much was 0.14
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Hi everyone my name is Dave the Loveburg and as you can probably hear we're out in the open.
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We're at Saddlebeek Park in Donkasta and we thought we thought we'd take the advantage of
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the bank holiday Monday of being such a gorgeous day 28 degrees and if I take part in this
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does this mean that it's my I'm conjured my first HPR? You're contributing to your first HPR
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but you won't be your first because I'll be happy. Please watch where you're going named.
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HNHNHNHN I'll be my name here how very do I. Well you haven't gotten accounts so anyway
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No we have no video meant recording so part of what we're doing as well as getting some vitamin D
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and some fresh air and probably getting burned as well is we're geocaching and that is
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what I want to talk about today. So geocaching, it is a game, it's basically what it is, it is a game.
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And a challenge?
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It's a pastime, not the same as a game? No, a pastime doesn't have to be a game, does it?
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But a game is typically a pastime. And it is a challenge.
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How can it help you pass the time? Oh well done, thanks for that insight.
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Oh good job card to see it. So the idea of geocaching is that someone has put a thing somewhere that you need to go and find.
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Now typically this thing is a container of some sort. Now the container can be tiny about the size of a pen or it can be clever.
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It can be clever. Yes, a snail or a little. It could be disguised as a leaf but it's still a container.
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Or it could be as big as a one litre top of a top of a box.
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Or a treasure chest? Yes, we did. We found an army treasure chest.
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Also we found there wasn't in a container.
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So you use an app provided by geocaching or you can use one of the third party apps.
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We use CGO because it's nicer to use and it's better.
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So we are currently on a search for a cache called Saddlebeat Part 1 cache 3 Samson's Stash,
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which according to my app is 367 feet away.
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So we're not far away. We're walking at a slow pace towards it.
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And Alex is going to help us find this one.
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Yay!
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I will find it on my own.
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The last one was a little bit downhill and a bit more difficult to find.
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I will find it on my own. It's a micro cache.
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Well the last one was literally downhill.
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It's a micro cache.
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What this one is, is it a micro cache?
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It is a micro cache, you're absolutely right.
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I have to find it all on my own.
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Yeah, you're going to find it mate.
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This one was a bigger one but it had to get changed from the school to the original.
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Yeah, this is the problem with geocaching.
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The idea is that your cache is trying to find a hidden.
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Now they're often hidden in plain sight but it's such a way where somebody who's not playing the game
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won't necessarily find it.
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But unfortunately sometimes they do get muggled, which is the official term of something
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getting discovered by someone who's not playing geocaching.
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And in this case it was stolen.
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Which is really sad because the cache was actually put down in memory of the cache owners dog
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who died a couple of days previously.
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So really cheery but also very, very sad that somebody thought it was nice to come along.
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Steal this item and well we don't know what they do with it.
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Nope.
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Stole it destroyed it.
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140 feet, we're still, we haven't gone past it, we haven't missed it.
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We have come to a down and up bit.
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We have?
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I wouldn't go across the log, I don't think the log would actually...
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When she's saying log people, it's like a trap.
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Yeah, it's a twig.
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Alright, come on out.
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I'm not going to go that way.
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No, you're not going to cross the same way as we are.
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It certainly wouldn't hold my way, that's a fact.
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Right, so it looks as though we keep going in that direction.
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Oh, hello?
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Oh, it's bad.
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Yeah, and there's literally a long side of the railway line.
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Well, I don't know, we may not get that far.
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45 feet, 38 feet.
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It's going to be in this ditch, isn't it?
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Yeah.
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Which hopefully is a ditch, not a very thick leveled river.
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15 feet, it's going to be on this side, isn't it?
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Please note that I have this unique road in the school game.
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Yum.
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Well, that's lunch sorted.
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So it's...
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Everybody put the bed here.
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We're going down here.
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I don't think we need spiders.
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Hang on, I've got a spider nest around me.
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I like spider.
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A spider web around my beard.
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Are we going down here?
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I don't think we need to.
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We're 7 feet.
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It said behind the tweet, isn't it?
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It said the clue was behind the tree.
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So it's probably years down there then.
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I hold back.
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Yeah, that's close.
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Sorry.
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Right, Caroline's got the corner.
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Wait a minute, let me go first.
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So what's happening is because that little boy is only six.
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I'm very adventurous.
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Dave's just trying to help him so he doesn't do himself an injury.
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Well done.
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But we're going to now let him look for it.
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So it'll be a micro cache.
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Which means it'll be small.
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Hang on, don't start grabbing your things.
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Now what happens with deal cache when you're doing this?
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We'll just be looking at it out for muggles.
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So not to make it obvious to other people,
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what they are in case you get more people stealing things.
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What if it's too far out to look at those trees?
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No.
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It says behind the tree.
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Oh no, it's right, I've got a torch in there.
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We can go behind that.
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The torch is out now.
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We're getting serious.
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Serious business.
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It's not metal, that's slug trails, mate.
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There is a tree up here.
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Behind that guy around just in case.
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We're now looking for that's a tree.
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And it's over there, mate.
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There's a gap in there, Dave.
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In where?
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I've looked in there.
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Alright, you're looking in there.
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No.
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This is the bit where...
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You start to think, oh, where's it gone?
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Oh!
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That's why there are trails.
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There's family slugs here.
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They're nice.
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Maybe the family slugs are resting on the cache.
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We would not disturb them.
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No.
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I'd...
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Have someone check the history for logs?
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Yes, see.
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I am on it.
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Yes.
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Someone said this is still there, but needs a new wire.
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Please replace carefully, I've ordered a new one.
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Why are these?
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Why are these?
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Now that's interesting.
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And there's an image.
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Of course, if it's wire, then it may well be suspended from something.
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So I wonder if it's over by that fence.
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What feet are we on from where we are at the moment?
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You don't want my device, my device.
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Nine feet.
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So it could be over here?
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No, no.
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It's not really.
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You've got me in the back.
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It could be out.
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It could fall out.
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So there is a tree.
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Ah, Dave.
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Can you see the tree it's talking about?
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Yeah, look at...
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Scooby-peek while this is where we're doing the technical bit.
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There is a bit where it shows you a picture.
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But it looks like a paler tree, which I would imagine is that one behind you where Alex was looking.
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Because it's paler than this one.
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We're comparing tree barks now to see which one's the most likely.
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I think it's that one behind you, Dave.
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This one.
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Well, what happened?
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Yeah.
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You said I'm finding it.
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You said I'm finding it.
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Can I come down and find it?
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I'm not seeing the markings.
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So this just shows you it's not easy.
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Go down if you want Clara.
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It's not easy.
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It's not meant to be simple to do.
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It's got to be a challenge.
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Is it dangling from a height or lower down or...?
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No, it's attached around a pole or a branch.
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Oh.
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I did ask Clara to look at that one.
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But again, I'm not seeing the markings on it.
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There are markings on this tree.
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Looks like a huge chunk of bark has been taken.
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That noise you just heard.
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What about that one over there then?
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I'm holding cars fun.
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Because one of the pictures below that had a funny chunky bit of...
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I'm not seeing the single branch coming out of this one.
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I'm finding it.
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There's a single branch higher up.
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Well, I say higher up.
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But didn't say bottom of tree.
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I don't know if they said bottom of tree.
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Behind the tree.
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Behind the tree.
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I mean, there's some more trees higher up.
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That bottom photograph is taken in that direction.
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Right.
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It's a lot way there.
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So, we've now got lots of people with different decisions
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and different ideas of where it might be.
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But this is the one where, if it's a microcash, it's really small.
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It's not easy to locate due to the size of it generally.
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Difficult to find.
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I'm just going to go off an attendant now just in case the satellite coordination's off
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to see whether I can see any other options.
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So, because sometimes the GPS is a little bit off.
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So, when it sits a few feet, it's actually not quite as close as that and it's a bit further down.
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So, I'm coming from a different angle now to see whether I can find it in case of the description was off.
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But interestingly, this is like yuk, sludgy, pudgy.
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Hello.
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I said I was just coming from a different angle to see.
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That's a birch.
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That is a birch.
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It says behind tree, doesn't it?
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I'm behind a tree down here.
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I don't think that that is it.
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No, that's just a bit of a...
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If I find it, I'll let you know.
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And you can do the bit.
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And help it out.
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If you go further.
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So, yes.
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This is actually probably a good way of showing you how sometimes you can be so sure you're on the right track and then it all goes a bit wrong.
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I have no idea what I am as well because this is like underneath a tunnel, which is really weird.
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There is actually a tunnel here, which is weird, but it's like half the height.
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Oh, Alex, you're right.
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Really?
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Alex, don't step on things, mate.
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Alex just stood on a twig that really came up into his face.
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Yeah.
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How was it?
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All right.
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I've got you.
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Alex, look under there.
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There's a tunnel.
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I won't go in it, but it goes all the way to the end.
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Right.
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Alex, look at the back of this because you'll get in a bit more than me.
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You and Alex have a look.
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Don't put your hands in gaps so you don't see things, Alex.
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It's really scary.
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Alex, don't stand on things.
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I'm probably snowing.
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He won't be that far round, Alex.
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I know we're not going to stand on things.
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I can't help it.
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Yeah, my husband's saying don't stand on things, but when the whole ground is lots of different twigs,
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it's very difficult not to stand on things.
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It's not that far, Alex.
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So...
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We might have to meet to feed this one.
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It knows in a nice spot.
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Yeah, just be careful, Alex.
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Yeah, this, my dear people, maybe what is known as a DNS.
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Did not find.
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I'm having a quick look to see.
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A second pair of eyes on the bits that they've checked.
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Just in case.
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But Carr is usually really be-be-de-eyed on these kind of things.
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And finds things quickly and easily.
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That is a compliment, dear.
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I can see something under here.
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What can you see?
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Beam.
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That's a slug, mate.
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I'm back, mate.
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Yeah.
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The rule is, Alex, unless you can see what you're looking at, don't put your-
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What is that there?
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Why is this going this way?
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Hold on.
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I'll come with you, Father.
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I'll come with you.
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I've got a tweak here with a funny-looking coloured thing.
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And it is literally a gap.
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There is no dangling wire in anything.
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So there you go.
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Experience first-hand.
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Have some time to just don't find what you're looking for.
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I think it's like a squirrel, a little squirrel.
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Do your question, by the way, can be quite-
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He's lost.
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It's worth it, though.
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It's worth it.
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But now comes the challenge of getting up.
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I've got a bit of Alex now helping you up, so...
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No.
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I don't need you.
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So, this looks like it's going to be our first notch find of the day.
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I know, but I'm not mind if the holiday.
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Yep.
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So I'm going to give you today so I can get up.
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Hold on.
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I love it, I love it.
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Right.
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Okay.
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What I'm going to do,
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so I'm going to pause this here
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and when we get closer to the next one,
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we'll have another look.
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One male little.
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So we're about 400 feet from the next cache.
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Really gutted.
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Alex is just showing off his muscles.
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Alex is showing off his muscles.
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Right.
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Really gutted we had to
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did not find that last one.
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Yeah, it was too sneaky.
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Hmm.
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It was sneaky.
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It was either very well hidden
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or very badly hidden.
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What if someone...
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What if someone...
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What if someone actually saw it again?
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The might have done, I suppose.
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It's possible.
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But someone did find it a few days ago.
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In fact...
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In fact, the cache owner owner
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found it a few days ago
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and said it was there.
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It was a cache owner.
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Yes, the cache owner.
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Well, well, if he got...
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Well, if he got um...
|
||
|
|
stolen the day after.
|
||
|
|
It could get?
|
||
|
|
Oh, stolen the day after.
|
||
|
|
Ooh, stingy nettle central.
|
||
|
|
Do you want to go in front of me mate?
|
||
|
|
No.
|
||
|
|
Well, back to the scratchy recording daddy.
|
||
|
|
You are recording.
|
||
|
|
You've been recording this whole time.
|
||
|
|
You've been recording this whole time.
|
||
|
|
No.
|
||
|
|
Daddy, now you're just walking through
|
||
|
|
in that field.
|
||
|
|
Probably daddy.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Here you go.
|
||
|
|
Thank you.
|
||
|
|
Thank you.
|
||
|
|
Thank you.
|
||
|
|
Thank you.
|
||
|
|
Thank you.
|
||
|
|
It is a beautiful day.
|
||
|
|
We're actually out in the open now.
|
||
|
|
We're not in the trees.
|
||
|
|
Alex, if you keep your hands to yourself mate,
|
||
|
|
you won't get stung by stingy nettles.
|
||
|
|
Stingy nettles.
|
||
|
|
But this sun is like Uber warm.
|
||
|
|
It's like 28 degrees centigrade.
|
||
|
|
Sorry, it sells this.
|
||
|
|
What's 28 Celsius in Fahrenheit?
|
||
|
|
No.
|
||
|
|
No.
|
||
|
|
Hot.
|
||
|
|
What is 28 Celsius in Fahrenheit?
|
||
|
|
28 degrees Celsius equal 82.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
|
||
|
|
There you go.
|
||
|
|
Hot.
|
||
|
|
No daddy.
|
||
|
|
Oh, hold your horses.
|
||
|
|
Back up.
|
||
|
|
No.
|
||
|
|
Back up.
|
||
|
|
No.
|
||
|
|
Hold on.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, keep going.
|
||
|
|
I don't want to go in the head.
|
||
|
|
I don't want to go in the head.
|
||
|
|
Let me go and see.
|
||
|
|
There is a trodden path.
|
||
|
|
Right, less than 100 feet.
|
||
|
|
We found a trodden path.
|
||
|
|
Oh, oh.
|
||
|
|
Oh, I say.
|
||
|
|
Hey, what can we do over here?
|
||
|
|
Well, there is a nice expression
|
||
|
|
of political temperature here in the
|
||
|
|
United Kingdom at the moment where
|
||
|
|
basically we're outside this red brick building
|
||
|
|
and someone has decided to write the words
|
||
|
|
Brexit can go fornicate itself.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, we know what it says Alex.
|
||
|
|
We don't have to take it out there.
|
||
|
|
Oh, hang on.
|
||
|
|
No, it's not out there.
|
||
|
|
It's not in there.
|
||
|
|
They can say it says Dave.
|
||
|
|
Oh, done.
|
||
|
|
It says Dave.
|
||
|
|
I'll take a photo of that.
|
||
|
|
I can go in the
|
||
|
|
Dave motivate.
|
||
|
|
Right, so
|
||
|
|
the clue.
|
||
|
|
Right, so
|
||
|
|
We found the place by its coordinates
|
||
|
|
and the full description,
|
||
|
|
well, there isn't one.
|
||
|
|
But it does say
|
||
|
|
outside.
|
||
|
|
What about that?
|
||
|
|
Like a path of people.
|
||
|
|
So the details, it says
|
||
|
|
other.
|
||
|
|
Size other.
|
||
|
|
Judicial cash which means it'll be
|
||
|
|
container of some kind.
|
||
|
|
And it says other.
|
||
|
|
It doesn't say magnetic.
|
||
|
|
This is a magnetic thing.
|
||
|
|
I'm quite sure what it is.
|
||
|
|
I think it's one of those things
|
||
|
|
they have to put around trees to protect the trunks.
|
||
|
|
That tree done gone.
|
||
|
|
You're absolutely right.
|
||
|
|
It doesn't seem to be
|
||
|
|
anything.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
I'll have a nosey around there in a second.
|
||
|
|
Let me just
|
||
|
|
ship the logs to make sure.
|
||
|
|
So five days ago,
|
||
|
|
the cash owner.
|
||
|
|
Oh, it's not the cash owner.
|
||
|
|
I like to kick over a rock and rock.
|
||
|
|
That's nice.
|
||
|
|
Bit of a search.
|
||
|
|
Bit of a search found it.
|
||
|
|
No, we haven't found it, love.
|
||
|
|
No, we haven't found it.
|
||
|
|
Second time.
|
||
|
|
So I'm just looking at the previous find
|
||
|
|
to see if we can identify where it is.
|
||
|
|
So I think what we're going to have to do is
|
||
|
|
have a walk around the outside.
|
||
|
|
Alex, do you want me to go first, mate?
|
||
|
|
There are lots of stingy nettles around there.
|
||
|
|
So everybody else is chickened out.
|
||
|
|
Despite the fact.
|
||
|
|
Despite the fact,
|
||
|
|
I also have no legs on.
|
||
|
|
I'm going.
|
||
|
|
I'm going.
|
||
|
|
I'm going.
|
||
|
|
Hang on, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
|
||
|
|
No, we're going away from it.
|
||
|
|
If you go by the coordinates,
|
||
|
|
we are going away from it.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
So.
|
||
|
|
Hey, what about it?
|
||
|
|
Well, Alex, you've just rubbed up against stingy nettles.
|
||
|
|
There is nothing
|
||
|
|
to indicate
|
||
|
|
a clue or anything like that,
|
||
|
|
apart from outside.
|
||
|
|
So if we
|
||
|
|
just do a quick
|
||
|
|
GPS.
|
||
|
|
So at the moment,
|
||
|
|
I'm at six feet, four feet,
|
||
|
|
three feet,
|
||
|
|
two feet,
|
||
|
|
one foot.
|
||
|
|
Right.
|
||
|
|
So.
|
||
|
|
It suggests that it's here.
|
||
|
|
And yeah, no.
|
||
|
|
Look at that tree there.
|
||
|
|
It looks like it might have been
|
||
|
|
trodden out a bit.
|
||
|
|
I'm not about that.
|
||
|
|
I'm not going there,
|
||
|
|
because I already got a stingy.
|
||
|
|
You got a sting.
|
||
|
|
Oh, mate.
|
||
|
|
Come here.
|
||
|
|
So we're carrying.
|
||
|
|
We'll just stay.
|
||
|
|
Oh, there's some copper cable here.
|
||
|
|
I wonder if it was actually a fence at one point.
|
||
|
|
Images.
|
||
|
|
Images.
|
||
|
|
Now, someone has taken a picture of that.
|
||
|
|
That metal structure.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
And in fact, our friend,
|
||
|
|
has taken a photograph directly in front of that.
|
||
|
|
So,
|
||
|
|
let me try and get out of here
|
||
|
|
without getting stuck.
|
||
|
|
I got a sting.
|
||
|
|
Oh.
|
||
|
|
I found one looks like it's loose,
|
||
|
|
but it's a bit higher.
|
||
|
|
You wouldn't never get that.
|
||
|
|
I think I do have a little bump.
|
||
|
|
I think I have something.
|
||
|
|
A bird pooped on there.
|
||
|
|
What's on the other side of that?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, mate.
|
||
|
|
You can have a look.
|
||
|
|
I'm not there yet in here.
|
||
|
|
How would you get to it?
|
||
|
|
Maybe it's that one there,
|
||
|
|
if I had been screwed up.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, you got to be like six feet tall together.
|
||
|
|
No, that's not moving.
|
||
|
|
Oh, there you can, mate.
|
||
|
|
I just got my glasses.
|
||
|
|
Oh, that's what you said out.
|
||
|
|
Not because you got to stung her out.
|
||
|
|
No, I got stung and they...
|
||
|
|
You dropped your glasses.
|
||
|
|
It's because of stuma.
|
||
|
|
There's nobody in there.
|
||
|
|
Really?
|
||
|
|
Oh, it's not a brood, it's not brood.
|
||
|
|
Oh, Alex.
|
||
|
|
Oh, right, there's mummies in here.
|
||
|
|
I'll come with you.
|
||
|
|
I'll come with you.
|
||
|
|
I'll be alright as well.
|
||
|
|
Well, I'm very disappointed by the fact
|
||
|
|
they've actually given us no actual usable clothes.
|
||
|
|
Nothing underneath is it, mate.
|
||
|
|
What, tucked under?
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
There are no details.
|
||
|
|
Oh, no, did you?
|
||
|
|
Oh, we have to go to a hospital.
|
||
|
|
It was a really thick one.
|
||
|
|
A really thick, chunky cobweb.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, it was on the brick.
|
||
|
|
I let my hand on the brick and then my hand was full of cobweb.
|
||
|
|
Lovely.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, we've got the hospital.
|
||
|
|
I'm not going in there.
|
||
|
|
I went in and I looked.
|
||
|
|
It's Cache's logic had our hand in this.
|
||
|
|
Sorry?
|
||
|
|
Cache's logic had our hand in this.
|
||
|
|
Oh, do I hate him and does that?
|
||
|
|
No.
|
||
|
|
A bit of a search for me had it.
|
||
|
|
Widened out the search a little fat signy called out that she'd found it.
|
||
|
|
Sneaky hide, great location for Cache.
|
||
|
|
Somebody's favorite, isn't it?
|
||
|
|
We've got a photo there.
|
||
|
|
Oh, that's the photo.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
There's a bit of light.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Maybe it's being a con.
|
||
|
|
Well, I'm going to DNF this one.
|
||
|
|
I'm trying this series.
|
||
|
|
I'm doing it.
|
||
|
|
That one.
|
||
|
|
Less it means outside as in, as in in the first album, not in the first one.
|
||
|
|
Well, that's not outside, is it?
|
||
|
|
No.
|
||
|
|
That's the other one.
|
||
|
|
That's the other one.
|
||
|
|
What are you doing?
|
||
|
|
Ah, yeah.
|
||
|
|
Oh, you're badger.
|
||
|
|
Got Stan.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Oh.
|
||
|
|
Oh, horrible stings, badges.
|
||
|
|
Okay, so not much luck here, we'll pause again and fire up at the next one, hopefully.
|
||
|
|
You know, we might actually find the next one.
|
||
|
|
So we're about 400 feet now from the next one, we're approaching some muggles so we'll
|
||
|
|
find it very soon, very shortly.
|
||
|
|
That's Alex, you can hear.
|
||
|
|
So that's the muggles gone.
|
||
|
|
In case you're curious, it's just a Y.
|
||
|
|
We have to be careful around people that aren't geocaching, is for as many people who are
|
||
|
|
bought into the game and want to do it, there are probably as many people who want to stop you from doing it.
|
||
|
|
And it wouldn't surprise me if there were people who were subscribed as premium members to go around
|
||
|
|
and actually destroy the caches that we're looking for.
|
||
|
|
Oh yeah.
|
||
|
|
I didn't try to do water on someone like me.
|
||
|
|
So we'll be followed by a muggle.
|
||
|
|
They're not saying that a lot of people do this, but certainly if people saw you rummaging
|
||
|
|
around for a geocache, they might be intrigued enough to try and actually find it for themselves.
|
||
|
|
And if they do find it and they're not invested in the game, then you don't know what they're going to do with it.
|
||
|
|
They could destroy it, they could take it away, they could rip it apart, they could do anything they wanted with it.
|
||
|
|
That's something we want to try and avoid.
|
||
|
|
Now I've used the words bought into a few times.
|
||
|
|
Hang on a second, I've just gone past it.
|
||
|
|
It is a subscription service, you can do other geocaching.com, which is the official site, you can pay a premium.
|
||
|
|
It's about £25 a year, what's that, 30?
|
||
|
|
Oh, fungus.
|
||
|
|
About $30 a year.
|
||
|
|
There are open, non-pay services like open caching, but you'll find that there aren't actually that many of them.
|
||
|
|
So, yeah, paying the extra for geocaching.com kind of makes sense.
|
||
|
|
Right, so this caching number seven, number seven sandal beat.
|
||
|
|
It's a small cache.
|
||
|
|
7th box in, oh, it's another one with absolutely no background information at all.
|
||
|
|
The hint, rock bottom.
|
||
|
|
So underneath the rock.
|
||
|
|
Now, I don't know about anybody else, but I'm seeing a distinct lack of rocks.
|
||
|
|
Now, the map, I zoom in.
|
||
|
|
It does suggest it's further this way.
|
||
|
|
Oh, we're still 30 feet from it, hold up, guys.
|
||
|
|
Ah, lovely, let's walk through holly trees.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, just watch out for holly bushes, ow.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, well, don't show off.
|
||
|
|
Well, there's a rock at the bottom.
|
||
|
|
So, wander if, and it says we're 9 feet from it, and that is about 10 feet away.
|
||
|
|
So, can you see that car or do you want me to go?
|
||
|
|
I'll go.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, hold on to.
|
||
|
|
That is brambles, no brambles.
|
||
|
|
So, that rock right in the middle there may be a fake rock.
|
||
|
|
It's not a fake rock.
|
||
|
|
What about that rim brick behind you?
|
||
|
|
Yes, there's a red brick.
|
||
|
|
Oh, no, that one there, okay.
|
||
|
|
That was a worm.
|
||
|
|
No thing.
|
||
|
|
There's not a rock in there, but there could be a rock in there at some point.
|
||
|
|
Is there a rock there behind that tree, Clara?
|
||
|
|
A little tree.
|
||
|
|
Oh, yes, yes there is.
|
||
|
|
No, no, to the left.
|
||
|
|
To the left.
|
||
|
|
There.
|
||
|
|
A little tree hanging up.
|
||
|
|
And there's a rock behind it.
|
||
|
|
There's a rock behind it.
|
||
|
|
You can walk.
|
||
|
|
So, I'm trying to wait for the rock.
|
||
|
|
That's not a horse.
|
||
|
|
That's not even a hornet.
|
||
|
|
It's a hover fly.
|
||
|
|
That's pretty tight.
|
||
|
|
It's not going to sting you.
|
||
|
|
It doesn't sting you.
|
||
|
|
It doesn't sting you.
|
||
|
|
Those things might be though.
|
||
|
|
Well.
|
||
|
|
Why did you go up there and then go across?
|
||
|
|
Why not just going in front of it?
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Don't, it's so great to be able to stand on the sidelines and bark out orders, isn't it?
|
||
|
|
Keep going.
|
||
|
|
It's not going to bother you.
|
||
|
|
It's not bothered.
|
||
|
|
Is it hovering in place?
|
||
|
|
I know.
|
||
|
|
Then it's a hover fly.
|
||
|
|
It's a frog.
|
||
|
|
It's a frog.
|
||
|
|
So fun.
|
||
|
|
Where's the frog?
|
||
|
|
Where is it going to sting you?
|
||
|
|
It's going to sting you.
|
||
|
|
It's going to sting you.
|
||
|
|
It's going to sting you.
|
||
|
|
It's going to sting you.
|
||
|
|
It's going to sting you.
|
||
|
|
I'll just put the mouse on the cobwebs.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Would you like some help, love?
|
||
|
|
Have it.
|
||
|
|
Is eating.
|
||
|
|
Right, would you hold my phone?
|
||
|
|
I will keep the recorder.
|
||
|
|
Good luck.
|
||
|
|
Oh, yeah.
|
||
|
|
Oh, yeah.
|
||
|
|
Oh, yeah.
|
||
|
|
Oh, you're going to be the one that's standing at the sidelines shouting out orders.
|
||
|
|
orders. I don't want to be honest. I feel really cushioning on there. Get out of my way.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, sit, sit, sit. You're going to whack it by that.
|
||
|
|
The computer says no.
|
||
|
|
Take the underneath that box which looks like the beginning.
|
||
|
|
This one.
|
||
|
|
You don't want it being down here. It's like a waste of time.
|
||
|
|
There is a bit of that brick at the front of you too.
|
||
|
|
Where?
|
||
|
|
Near the tree, guys.
|
||
|
|
The one that I just picked over.
|
||
|
|
This one.
|
||
|
|
No.
|
||
|
|
What's that?
|
||
|
|
See that?
|
||
|
|
There's another bit of brick up there.
|
||
|
|
That's not what bottom those you love. That's not particularly accessible.
|
||
|
|
Look what we like.
|
||
|
|
Part of the problem here is that we're on a bed of really, really thick leaves.
|
||
|
|
I'm scared a bit.
|
||
|
|
You might like it.
|
||
|
|
You want to what?
|
||
|
|
Are you tracking the distance?
|
||
|
|
I want some down there.
|
||
|
|
I'm scared a bit.
|
||
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I'm scared that you're going to finish that sentence.
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I'm scared that these leaves are not good.
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How do you mean not good?
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I don't know. I just was going so many things.
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No.
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Hello.
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Okay.
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Underneath this bit of that.
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Okay. Yeah.
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Or was there anything in front of it? Just in case.
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But it's definitely in the general direction because it's seven feet on looking down to you.
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It's definitely not in my gap.
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Wow.
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Could have been down that way.
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It's six feet.
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Come here.
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Is that my phone?
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Yeah.
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But let me have it a sec.
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Let me see if I can get an accurate reading on the coordinates.
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Nope.
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Nope.
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Nope.
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Nope.
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Nope.
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Nope.
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No, I think...
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Ah.
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Now according to this I'm too far in.
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I will find most of this is
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in which direction.
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This way.
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Whoa.
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Things falling down from the tree.
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What?
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Whatever is up there.
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There's just not some evidence that they've cooked.
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I told you things are far in now.
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No, no, no.
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I'm not holding it out.
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That's just ten feet.
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There's six feet when I find them down here.
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Yeah.
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This says ten feet.
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No.
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No.
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No.
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No.
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No.
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No.
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No.
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Right, we're definitely moving away from here.
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I wonder if it's behind you, love.
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No.
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Wow.
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It's what?
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It's...
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Wow.
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You can use the branch.
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Let's do it.
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Last one.
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I'm still trying to escape.
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So now it's saying six feet.
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Yeah.
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Nine feet.
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And now it's stopped updating.
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Maybe it's fast cut.
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Don't touch them, they've got...
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Eight feet, ten feet.
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Five feet.
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Under there, and in the head.
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Look at that.
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Look at that.
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That's beautiful.
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That's beautiful.
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That's 13 feet.
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Yes, mate.
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Yep.
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Yep, that might not mean the bottom of something.
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I don't believe we're about to get scuppered for the third time.
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Yep.
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That's not a rock bottom.
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That's right in the ground.
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That might not mean the bottom of something.
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I don't believe we're about to get scuppered for the third time.
|
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No, we're not.
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We did so well last week.
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Twice.
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What?
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Patrick Carr and...
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Nostle.
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100%.
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What?
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What?
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Which was the one where...
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I don't know which one was which.
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Which one was Patrick Carr or which one was the other one?
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Nostle was the one where you'd already been.
|
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That's the first...
|
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Do you actually ever found?
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Nostle primary.
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Yeah.
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So we got 100% of those.
|
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And Patrick Carr was the one we went to a couple of days later.
|
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|
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One of the comments that...
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Yeah.
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I think it's around that tree somewhere.
|
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Someone said...
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Not near the ditch.
|
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Someone said widen search.
|
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Not bearish to the cord.
|
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Oh, lady!
|
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Make it!
|
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|
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Someone said that that was the photo.
|
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Found it not near the ditch.
|
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|
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You may actually get a few hours.
|
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|
|
First one found.
|
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|
|
Blah blah blah.
|
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|
|
What a comment in the log.
|
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|
|
Check the photo pointing to the cat.
|
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|
|
Oh, okay.
|
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|
|
So that's the photo.
|
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|
|
Which is here.
|
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|
|
This is the first time in my life.
|
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|
|
The growing neck.
|
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|
|
I bet it's in this cat somewhere, but...
|
||
|
|
Well, hang on, what trees that?
|
||
|
|
That's that tree there.
|
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|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
I want to pick up a stick and go.
|
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|
|
Oh, no!
|
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|
|
No, it's not.
|
||
|
|
Am I allowed to grab a stick and slash at the hollow?
|
||
|
|
Um, you can do.
|
||
|
|
I don't know if it's going to have much of an effect.
|
||
|
|
It's a multi-tronk tree.
|
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|
|
That isn't.
|
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|
|
Or is it?
|
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|
|
Yes, it is.
|
||
|
|
I've always wanted to do this
|
||
|
|
because I'm not sure if it's going to work or not.
|
||
|
|
No, I think this is it.
|
||
|
|
Picking my anger out on the tree.
|
||
|
|
Please don't hurt it.
|
||
|
|
You're extremely close.
|
||
|
|
I'm just looking.
|
||
|
|
Oh, it becomes a vehicle with an engine.
|
||
|
|
I'm not sure it's so sweet
|
||
|
|
but the off-short isn't.
|
||
|
|
I think it's deep in here.
|
||
|
|
That's too far apart.
|
||
|
|
Which tree?
|
||
|
|
You reckon?
|
||
|
|
That's heck of a long way out from the coordinates.
|
||
|
|
Does it fit without the coordinates?
|
||
|
|
No, they're too thick love.
|
||
|
|
Oh!
|
||
|
|
Look at the shape.
|
||
|
|
Partly.
|
||
|
|
That looks like there used to be something there.
|
||
|
|
Doesn't it?
|
||
|
|
It's over.
|
||
|
|
I'll look around the other side.
|
||
|
|
That's not good.
|
||
|
|
And it's around a holiday.
|
||
|
|
That, to me, it looks like it's going to move.
|
||
|
|
Just the shape.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, potentially.
|
||
|
|
Hang on.
|
||
|
|
What are you?
|
||
|
|
Well off.
|
||
|
|
Got it.
|
||
|
|
Right.
|
||
|
|
Right in my eye.
|
||
|
|
Flip.
|
||
|
|
Right, okay.
|
||
|
|
We have finally found our first of three.
|
||
|
|
It was at the bottom of the rock.
|
||
|
|
It's at the clue being rock bottom.
|
||
|
|
It is actually a fake rock.
|
||
|
|
Do you feel it?
|
||
|
|
Stop piling up.
|
||
|
|
Look, come here.
|
||
|
|
There we go.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, look where I see it.
|
||
|
|
Mmm, slow.
|
||
|
|
At least he's not trying to drop your nuts on it.
|
||
|
|
On your head.
|
||
|
|
Drop his nuts when you're heading.
|
||
|
|
Look at this.
|
||
|
|
Get off.
|
||
|
|
Where's my pen?
|
||
|
|
There it is.
|
||
|
|
Flip.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
The corners are well off.
|
||
|
|
About the image and other comments would never have found.
|
||
|
|
This is the first log.
|
||
|
|
What you find is Lee.
|
||
|
|
Okay, Lee family in here.
|
||
|
|
Twenty.
|
||
|
|
Twenty-secth of the eighth.
|
||
|
|
The third one is nine eighths.
|
||
|
|
Isn't very good.
|
||
|
|
Lee.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Family.
|
||
|
|
Isn't very good at the corner.
|
||
|
|
Well, hopefully no one listens to this nose, Sarah, whatever number is.
|
||
|
|
Sorry.
|
||
|
|
It may not be her.
|
||
|
|
It may be the technology she was using at the time.
|
||
|
|
It is possible that if she was using a crappy smartphone or something or the GPS hadn't settled
|
||
|
|
by the time she was looking for it.
|
||
|
|
Oh, could it be?
|
||
|
|
That is intonally possible.
|
||
|
|
Oh, crap.
|
||
|
|
I got it from.
|
||
|
|
Oh.
|
||
|
|
But at least the clue was right.
|
||
|
|
That was nice that day.
|
||
|
|
I used to like him then.
|
||
|
|
I keep hearing.
|
||
|
|
Those noises are Dave losing his trousers.
|
||
|
|
Woo-hoo.
|
||
|
|
Not really.
|
||
|
|
You're transferring it now.
|
||
|
|
Anyway.
|
||
|
|
You said he wants to be a natural.
|
||
|
|
Not in that. Where's my phone?
|
||
|
|
There it is.
|
||
|
|
Timmy pockets.
|
||
|
|
Right, so we can now log this as a fine finally.
|
||
|
|
So log visit.
|
||
|
|
Coordinates well out.
|
||
|
|
Only found due to previous comments and a photo of the tree.
|
||
|
|
Which is about 30 feet in the corner as well.
|
||
|
|
Right, so at my calculation we have been speaking now for best part of three quarters of now.
|
||
|
|
And we have finally found a geocache.
|
||
|
|
Anyway.
|
||
|
|
That was all we really wanted to tell you about is about the game of geocaching and it is fun.
|
||
|
|
It is fun but can be frustrating at times.
|
||
|
|
Very much so.
|
||
|
|
I'll put into the show notes linked to all the things that we've mentioned.
|
||
|
|
geocaching.com.
|
||
|
|
The apps we use etc.
|
||
|
|
Caroline is attempting to remove a bottle from my back pocket.
|
||
|
|
And we've taken a couple photographs as well which will include two.
|
||
|
|
Including we'll also put a link into the cache we just found.
|
||
|
|
So if you want to actually have a look and see what it is we've logged and
|
||
|
|
and the things that we were seeing then please do so.
|
||
|
|
But I don't even go without my tool.
|
||
|
|
There's a love bug along with.
|
||
|
|
Hi, Caroline.
|
||
|
|
Caroline.
|
||
|
|
What's your name?
|
||
|
|
Alex.
|
||
|
|
Alex.
|
||
|
|
Thank you.
|
||
|
|
Thank you very much for listening and
|
||
|
|
John's again tomorrow for another exciting episode of...
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
|
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|
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|
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