The hunt for Jasmine and Aladdin - Part I

There are a couple of caches in the Netherlands where you have to use Trackable Items to figure out the coordinates. One of those caches is (GCJVWT - Abu), for this cache you have to find Jasmine and Aladdin. With the numbers on their tags the start coordinates can be calculated. On Saturday we decided to go for Jasmine who was laying around in a cache already for a month or so. This cache (GC10Z9B - Venloon) brought us to a area called "Loonse en Drunense duinen", an area with sand dunes. But first we started out at a camping site, the boys patiently waiting while we try to figure out the starting coordinates.

We passed by these deers, and you can see that we had some nice sunny weather.

Here we arrived at the sand dunes area.

The bears really love this sand and here a small movie that shows this.

One of the way-points that we had to visit to figure out where to go next.

On our way to the next way-point.

At the end we had to search for the cache box that took us a little while but we logged it at 15:10.

And yes inside we discovered Jasmine, so half of our mission succeeded.

The bears patiently waiting on the cache location wondering what our excitement is all about.

Since we had some time left we decided to go for another cache in this area, (GCPAMG - Sprookjesbos), that brought us to a forest where we had to find little containers with fairy tale figures.

We found every fairy tail figure, a giant.

A figure from Arabian Nights.

A witch.

A dwarf.

"Holle bolle gijs"

A donkey.

The grey wolf.

At the end we found the cache box as well at 16:45 we could write our names in the logbook and we headed for home to relax from yet another beautiful day of geocaching.

Friday Afternoon

Being at work I had a terrible headache and decided to head on home. Walking to the car I realised that the weather was very nice so I wanted to walk around a little bit to see whether my headache would improve.
In the neighbourhood a couple of caches are hidden so I went for the one closest by.
(GC11F5N - 1 van de Campus) It is a traditional part of a small series, the other one I already found before. This one was easily spotted and I logged it at 13:00 as our number 102.

Next I went for the (GCXFYY - Raindance) cache. Also a traditional that I thought was hidden on a spot that I did check but didn't find the container.

After walking around in that area a little bit more I came back to the first spot and looked somewhat better. And then I found what I was looking for. I could log at 13:40. I'm not showing the cache container because that would be a complete spoiler.

To complete the series in this area. I went for the bonus cache of the small series, (GC11F5R - 11 van de Campus). I could log this one at 13:50 as our #104.

For the last of this afternoon I visited a very nice location. (GCPWKP - Mesopotamië) Still very sunny weather and the cache was found quickly. I forgot to take a picture, but nevertheless I logged at 14:35 to drive home and relax for the weekend to come.

Earthcache Stippelberg

We visited the earth cache (GC10AXT - Stippelberg).
It brought us to the area Stippelberg.

The dogs loved this walk a lot.

Here the picture at the spot.

And a more closeup of the sign.

Number 100: Pilgrimage Cache 2

After yesterday our cache counter showed 99 caches found, and therefore it was time for a special cache that would become our 100th cache. We picked the sequel to the one we found as 50th (GC101C4 - Bedevaartcache 2 - De Keurmeesters).

We started earlier than what's normal for us on a Sunday, but not as early as other people start to cache. We arrived at the start somewhat before 11:30.

For the first part we had to use pictures to find the way through a "maze" to reach the start of the first out of four different challenges we had to pass.

The challenge here was that the pictures were made the other way around and in another time of year.

But we managed to find the start of the first challenge although we didn't use all of the pictures.

So either we took a short-cut that we aren't aware of, or we missed to recognize some of the spots from the pictures while we passed them.

It was a very nice forest area that we were strolling around.

And the weather was good as well, a little bit chilly but dry and with a nice winter sun shining on our faces.

At some points we had to find a tag on a tree, to be able to find the information to continue to the next point.

We don't want to give away to much detail, since that would ruin the fun for future cachers.

One of the challenges we had to pass, asked a lot about our navigation skills and the knowledge of our GPS. I tried stuff that I didn't even know was possible with our GPS, but it brought us correct from point to point.

We passed a little sluice, and when the dogs hear water flowing they always get a little crazy.

Toby kept on barking at this point, later on we discovered why. What a good boy he is indeed.

And being a pilgrimage, we could say a prayer before Mary.

And at the end the reward of the cache. We left the first coin of ours, SchocoBearsFirst.

We logged it at 16:40 as our number 100 inside we found a TB.

We left two coins behind.

Chapel Heers

And because we had our 100th cache planned for tomorrow we had to find one more today. We decided that we would go for the 5th Chapel of a series of 7 (GC1DCK9 - POK - Heers). This one starts at a chapel that is a replica of a cave that used to be here on this spot.

Then we walked alongside a small river the Run.

We had to find three spots that contained a scent that we had to recognize.

Container B.

Container C.

With the found scents we could calculate the coordinates of the cache.

That we discovered and logged at 17:00, just before the sun went under.

With this cache we only need two more to complete that series. Our total is 99 now, ready for tomorrow to visit the 100th.

TB de Buizerd, Reusel

The second cache of the day was the second out of a series we started last week as well (GCTWE2 - TB5: De Buizerd). For this cache we first had to visit a spot where we found the next chapel.

Then we had to visit a spot where we had to answer some questions again.

Walk along a forest that we visited last week also for another cache, not knowing that we would be here again today.

And at the end we found the bird-house with a key-lock that we could unlock with the found answers.

We logged it at 14:45 as our #98.