Aladar123 plays geocaching

Any place is a good one to hide a geocache. This one was part of a serie in the Netherlands, and during the search we were suspecting one to be in the hole on the top of a pole which was part of the fence... and there you go there was a hide just as we hoped for. The geocache with some real plants in the hole. I keep on thinking how these holes form? Are they man made? If yes, for what to help the pole to rot from the inside, but what is that good for? If no, then who took the parts out? Maybe one day I will learn the answer till that I keep on geocachnig and try to find more of these easy ones and some harder ones as well. A closeer picture of the container with the land the fence was guarding. I like to interact with animals, so when I'm geocaching in such environment I'm always hoping to have animals on the other side of the geocache, maybe some cows, or some sheeps or at least a horse, there is always at least one which is curious and would come closer and l...

It looks like a common place to put a nano on the gates in the Netherlands. I remember one of our first nano we found only for the third try was also on a gate, but unfortunately I did not take pictures of that. The nano, really visible if you know what to see. When new geocachers ask how to start this game I always tell them start with the low difficulty bigger sizes, that starts them rolling in this game. I also recomment to them to go for more difficult or smaller containers with more experienced geocachers. The higher of the found rate in the beginning the more likely to stay in the game, and you know the more geocachers the more geocaches are hidden as well. Let's get back to this hide, it was a really nice and sunny day, we went with our foldable bikes that is so much easier to just put in the trunk of the car. When we arrived we saw two kids a bigger girl and a smaller boy at the location, we asked them if they already found it or not? Nope, not yet, - they said. Fi...

In the Netherlands it is really popular to use carpool parking, and that brings the great idea of placing geocaches in carpool parkings as well. These geocaches can be found in all different sizes, this time I'd like to share a bigger one next to a closed carpool parking place. Hidden under plants. We were on the way back from shopping in Germany when we stopped at this location, it seemed to be an easy one. The first surprise was that the carpool parking was there, but closed, so we had to park on the other side of the road in the parking of a new movie theather, which was of course paid, maybe that's why they closed the carpool parking? So we parked, then walked over. Not too easy to spot from a distance. When we started searching, it took a bit of a time, the security showed up. Don't ask what were they securing there, but he was not alone they were in two. So he comes and starts inteviewing my wife what are we doing there? She started to explain and he did n...

Most ivy hides are evil. The reason is mostly as ivy grows fast and all over the place, and mostly covers a huge area. When I see in the hint the key work ivy I already start to worry, but at the end you will just be lucky if you keep on searching. When you found it it is easy to take a picture. On my first picture you can see the tiny little geocache on some ivy. Of course it was not there in open for everyone to easily spot. Hiding in the ivy. As you can see it was in the ivy, but with most ivy hides you would expect to be between the leaves, but not in this case. It was really smart to hide it between the roots of the ivy, first time I met with this technic. THe tree with the ivy hiding the geocache  This geocache was hidden in Bracknell (UK) on a road I did not see any sign of heavy traffic at all. Air was clean, thanks to all the huge trees the temperature was also comfortable for the hike to the geocache and on the way to the next one. The nice and big t...

Some caches for non native English speakers could be a challenge in an English speaking area, especially when there is a key word in the name of the geocache or in the description that is very helpful. This is what happened with me on this one, I had no clue what is a push-fit pipe, and no internet so could not search for help there. No clue means you need to look into anything that is like a pipe, or anything that is not as it might not be a pipe after all. In the pipe. It was a pipe, but I was looking into all different pipe looking object before I spotted this one about ten meters off the coordinate. Lucky for me the pathway was narrow and fence on both side so made the search area smaller. It still took me at least 15 minutes. The container. When I got the container out I was happy to see a bigger container, not to mention that I found a travel bug in it, which I picked up happily not knowing its mission which later made me find another bigger container where I could...

This geocache is a perfect example of how to make the geocaching experience a huge fun. Creating geocaches for players that are not just a pill box, or a petling, but it is camouflaged the it is almost invisible for the unexperienced eyes. When I come across a geocache that is such well done and effort is put into creating it and finding a place to hide it where it will stay around for a longer time without being muggled, I always give a favo point for them. A professional geocache is always fun to find. This geocache is located in the United Kingdom, in Bracknell. Its a small city with many nice parks and not too many muggles, at least after working hours or on Sundays. Which made me question the demand for these parks, but maybe I was just luck to be around when others had dinner or a weekend laziness. This was one of the entrance to the Whitegrove Copse. Entrance to the park. A bigger tree fallen on the footpath and kept there, gives some cool atmosphere to the walk...

I saw that you can order online different versions of the bolt&nut magnetic container, and I also found some of these geocaches earlier. They are fun, but as I cannot go out to search every day I also started to make geocaches, which later when I have a chance and a place I hide as well. So check it out. My bolt&nut container taken apart. It is nothing difficult if you have the tools, and materials needed. All you will need is: a bigger size nut, I used an M16 a matching bolt a strong magnet fitting into the nut some glue to keep the magnet in the nut a few drill bits to drill the hole some tool to get the sharp edges off a logroll, I'll cover how to make those in a separate blog later A picture while it is standing. The first step would be to drill a long enough hole in the bolt. To be honest it was done by my nephew as he has more of the power tools and he had the bolt and the nut... thanks a lot for him here. The reason I mentioned different si...

During my visit to Taiwan I learned some new ways of hiding a geocache. This one was one of them. Many areas seems to be with no place to hide anything, just like this huge park along the Keelung river. Container under a grid. The container is hidden under the only grid in sight using a magnet and to make sure geocachers do not let it fall it is also tied to the grid using a fishing line. I took the above picture with the geocache not pushed back fully to its place so it is visible, but as soon as you push it a bit further there is no muggle to spot it. Really nice way of hiding. Can you see the geocache? You see only my shadow... For a bit experienced geocacher it was trivial it has to be on that grid. In the morning there were only a few muggles, most of them running by or cycling by, and they did not bother, they saw me as a tourist making pictures of the park. Which is a wide open park, see some pictures of it below. Not too busy at this time of the day. Not a...