Completing the Short Walk Series (AKW)

This afternoon we continued with the AKW series that we started yesterday. Because it rained a lot this morning it was very wet out there, but while we walked it hardly rained. So not to bad weather after all.
The first of today was (GCK384 - AKW II - De Run) a walk on both sides of a small river called Run. Probably a wet area throughout the year but now extremely wet, but we were prepared so no problems there.

Half way the walk we went across to the other side. As you can see the dogs were there before us.

We discovered the cache at 13:00 and we logged it as our #47.

Inside we found a coin, that we exchanged with a TB.

On the other side of the river sheep were grazing and they were very interested in us or the dogs.

After the discovery back to the car to visit the next cache (GCK383 - AKW I - De Sprankel) a 3 Km long walk in an area that Rob used to visit as a young boy, he didn't seem to remember it, to long ago I guess.

We had to follow the signs of the Sprankel walk, and on some of the signposts screws were attached with numbers on them.

With these numbers we could calculate the coordinates of the cache.

Which we discovered and logged at 14:25 as our number 48.

Inside was a coin, that we exchanged with a coin in our possession.

We could now travel to the just calculated coordinates of the bonus cache of this series (GCK38B - AKW VI - De Hogt). To decide where to enter the area was a little challenge, but once we got the right track the cache was easily discovered.

It was a very large container, that was full of interesting treasures, but we just exchanged TB's one in and one out. We logged it at 15:10 making our total 49.

A recap of our activities this weekend:

Making our Geocache stats:

The next cache will be our number 50 so we will choose an interesting cache for this milestone.

Short Walk Caches

Today we combined three of a series of five short walks, all located not to far from our hometown (7 Km or so).
The first one was (GCK388 - AKW V - De Heuvelsche Putten).
First we had to follow a junction map.

We had to find four numbers linked to the next four objects that we passed along the route.

The walk lead us through some nice country area.

We logged the cache at 12:30 and it was our #44

Inside the box we discovered TB Echo:

And a Canadian Coin:

Next we visitid family to drink some coffee and after that we continued with our hunt of today.
The second walk was (GCK387 - AKW IV - Het Dommeldal) a 2 Km walk in some wetlands beside a small river called Dommel.

We had to do the walk and measure the meters in between the four gates that we had to pass to come up with the coordinates of the cache-box. That we discovered at 15:10.

We logged it as our #45.

And to finish up the cache trip of today we went for (GCK386 - AKW III - Het Vlasroot) a 1,5 Km walk around a little marsh called Vlasroot.

We had to find three signs and use parts of the GPS-coordinates of their locations to constuct the cache coordinates.


We logged it at 15:50 as our #46.

This series (AKW) consists of 5 caches and one final bonus cache. We did three of them today, so we're halfway in this serie.

Caching in Limburg, the Netherlands

We went to visit friends today that live in Maastricht. On the way back we decided to catch some caches.
We picked a nice multi-cache that made us walk through a nice forest on hills (GCJ42X - De Zeven Heuvels).
The dogs enjoyed the walk as did we.

There were some natural wells here.

And of course at the end of the walk the cache-box.

We logged it at 15:00 and it was our #42. We discovered a coin (Wilg GeoCoin) and we swapped it with a coin we had with us. This is the coin we discovered:

And next we visited a cache near Maastricht Airport (GCQZ1E - TRAVEL BUG AIRPORT (edition 3.0)). It was already snowing some more.
This cache is a traditional so just a cache coordinate to find it immediately. While looking for a parking spot, we found out that we were very close. It was a nice hidden box, with 2 coins and a travel bug inside. We dropped 2 TB's and a "Zwarte Piet" toy.
This is a very nice coin that we discovered (Jeep'en Jumpers Adventure Coin):

This is the other one (Happy Caching - Black Cat Geocoin),

And this is the TB (Einstein Duck) that we discovered.

At home I made a picture of Einstein with his family that lives with us.

We logged it at 16:20 and then we continued our journey home, while the road got whiter and whiter.

The Mascot on top of the cache-box.

Caching in Achel continued

After our 3 hours walk we decided to pick up some caches in Achel. The ones we had ready to be picked up were three puzzle caches that I solved and calculated the coordinates of the cache location at home, and one traditional cache.
The first we chose was the (GC1DAEE - Achel I : Nare talen), the calculated coordinates were right because I could log the cache at 15:45, our # 38.

The next one was a traditional (GC1DG1Z - Memorial Rock) that had an original hiding place. We logged it at 16:00.

Then it was the turn for (GC1EAW0 - Borden salade).
I already new that the coordinates were right because of the check I could perform at home. We logged it at 16:15.

And the final for today (GC1DKX6 - Constellations?). I couldn't check the coordinates from home and I wasn't sure whether I understood the puzzle completely, but I discovered the cache where I expected it so I was right. I logged it at 16:30 and that makes our total of caches found 41.

Caching in the Snow

This morning it snowed a little bit, the dogs like this a lot and we decided to go for a long walk cache. We selected (GC10A3W - Leenderbos Tandem) not to far from our home. And it was a lovely walk indeed.

It was a nice walk with some nice spots.

We ran into some Scottish Highlander, who graze part of this nature area. You are advices to keep at least 25 meters distance between you and them, but we couldn't help but to pass them closer by, because they were blocking the footpath and were nearside the sand path, so we took the risk, and everything went fine. One of the young cows was really interested in us and came closer, but we didn't wait for that.

This was at the last way point and actually we needed some information on a sign in the middle of the herd. The photo camera resolved this problem for us, so we were able to find the cache.

So I logged the cache a 15:00 while the boys where guarding the spot. It was our #37.

Braambosch Riethoven

Today we combined two caches (GCV4Z4 - Braambosch) and (GCV7CN - Braambosch Stukjes) in the "Braambosch" not to far from our home-address.
It is a nice forest area which we never visited before, shame on us so close to our home.

The "Braambosch Stukjes" (Braambosch pieces) are actually 4 geocoins that you have to find in the forest by using the projection functionality of the GPS-receiver.
Here is the container of the first piece, Called the Challenge.

And the coin in the hand.

Searching for the next coordinates.

The second puzzle piece, called the Research.

The third piece, called the Quest

On our way to the next way point.

The last piece was discovered as well.

This is the fourth piece, called the Find, the color is orange, which doesn't show on the picture due to the flashlight.

With the tracking codes we could calculate the coordinates of the cache. That we discovered at 16:40.

Inside the cache we discovered two trackable items and a coin. We took all three of them and exchanged them with the 2 coins that we had in possession and a Sinterklaas toy.



And after this we went for the cache location of the other cache. It was past sunset when we logged it at 16:55.

In this cache we discovered another TB, Iron Mickey that we exchanged for a Sinterklaas toy.

In the same area also a traditional is located which we probably could have easily found as well but we were so focused on combining the two multi-caches that we forgot to check and once we finished the other two it was already dark and to late to pick up the third. So we have go back another time for this traditional, which isn't a punishment at all because it is a very nice piece of nature.
This makes our cache total:

Until now we discovered the following type of Traceable Items:

And this is what we did this weekend with regard to geocaching.