A rather restless night.
er indoors TM" snored rather
excessively for several hours. When she finally gave up with that
game a small dog bounded up the stairs, jumped on the bed and made
himself comfortable by trying to push me off of it. I gave up trying
to sleep and came downstairs. Once the washing up was done I scoffed
brekkie whilst checking out the world via social media. I had another
go at Twitter. I don't like it much. Over on Facebook the talk was
about the latest video game - Grand Theft Auto Five. Apparently
parents are now acting surprised to find that a game glorifying theft
and murder isn't exactly suitable for small children. Did they really
have no idea what the first four GTA games were all about?
We rallied the troops and
set off to Capstone Country Park for a spot of geocaching with a
difference; we did a Wherigo
cache. It was one of the best caches that I have ever done. We
dowloaded the Wherigo software to our phones and through the wonders
of GPS technology once we were in the right place the software
started. Our first task was to firstly walk round the lake to find
virtual coins, and having found them go back to the start for further
instructions. And so we progressed. The software would tell us places
to go and would either navigate us there or let us find our own way.
And once at the designated locations we would have tasks to perform;
puzzles to solve, questions to answer. Eventually after a few hours
effort (and several miles hiked) we had enough information
together to allow us to actually find the hidden geocache.
A Wherigo cache isn't for
those people who like counting the numbers; this one cache took over
four hours to find. But it's not about the numbers. It took us all
over Capstone park; to places I've never been before. And it was fun.
I can't recommend it highly enough.
As is always the case the
more effort someone puts into creating a geocache experience, the
fewer people actually do that cache. No one had done this particular
cache since May. A great shame. For myself I would like to find more
Wherigos. I understand there are a few in the south east.
Whilst we were out we saw
a familiar face - the chap who had designed and set this Wherigo had
come along to see how we were getting on. It was good to meet up
with Martin. And he was fair - he didn't give away anything as we
went round
We also met up with
friends who were flying kites at the kite day. It was a shame there
was hardly any wind. Kite flying can be a rather rubbish hobby; the
wind is very rarely suitable for kites.
And so home via one or
two caches on the way. Once home after we'd scoffed tea er indoors
TM" set off bowling. I settled down in
front of the telly for a "Jeeves and Wooster-a-thon"...
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