Booooooo! Sometimes even a little help from your friends can't get you a FTF!
Managed to get up to Kinwarton Trig last night to hide the Cache. The GPS seemed to enjoy the 'clear air' and on 10 satellites (about 6 of which had EGNOS correction!) was giving a 5ft accuracy - I've never seen it that good! My GeoDrift reading were therefore very close to the published Trigs co-ords which was great! Co-ords at the Cache were also spot on with the Google Earth co-ords, also a first!
CSI-Wellesbourne had mentioned doing a SideTracked Cache yesterday, so I had my eyes peeled. Once the Trig listing was published I was wondering if hers would pop up, only to get a mail saying the reviewer had refused to publish it as it was too close to another Cache!
Mid-morning I got a notification that wrighty had found the Trig - it had been absolutely pouring all day, so I thought it would be a while before it was found! Turns out they were off to Wales, until they spotted the rain, and then also ditched plan B which meant some shopping for Mrs W (I think I'm going to be in trouble next time we meet!!! ;) ) once wrighty spotted the new Cache!
Left work and still no sign of the SideTracked - booo! I had been even more drawn in by the prospect of a mini-FTF certificate - sounded dead cute!! By the time I got home it had appeared, of course (having driven within about 2 miles of the darn thing!) Had someone coming round to quote for some laminate flooring, so couldn't dash out, and also needed to waot for schnarff to get home as she was already on the bike, so I couldn't call her to say divert to Warwick!
She got home at 6:30 as usual and was delighted (NOT!) to be dragged straight out. It hadn't been logged by the time we left so we dashed the 20miles as quickly as we could (behind people who obviously read '60' as 40...and going by the roadworks, '40' as 50' :S)
Got to the station to find lots of cars tootling around, so suspected we weren't FTF. One seemed to hang around very suspiciously, perhaps checking us out for GPS carrying???
Found the Cache easily, great, cheeky hide - I shall chuckle at the number of muggles who will walk past here oblivious each day, ROFL!
Turned out we were only STF, someone DID beat us to it, but no time on the log, so not sure by how much. We hit the spot at almost exactly 7pm!
Our first CSI-W at last, having met her months ago *lol*
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