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Filling the matrix: 2018-03-14 & a frog

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This time I'm sharing another cool matrix you can try to fill, but before that let me show you one of the cool geocaches I came across just recently, while working on this matrix. The frog on the branch It is early spring here in the Netherlands and the trees and bushes are not covered with leaves, that was helping a lot. The hint for this hide was clear we need to find a frog on a tree, of course all it said was the latin name of the frog... Honestly it is hard to find time to go geocaching on busy days when those days are also short like in winter and early spring and this brings us to the next matrix I want to share. Finds by found date This matrix is showing you on which day of which month you found and how many geocaches you found; the year does not count. As you can see after a few years geocaching it is still kind of empty on the darker months starting from October till March. January and February was in a worse condition, then I decided to fill as many gaps as I...

Geocache: Hiding in ivy

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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...