Venlo

This Sunday we visited the year match of the Bearded Collie Club Netherlands. This took place in Venlo and we decided to try and find some solved mystery caches on the way home.
So no long walks today just some short strokes to find the caches.
The first one GC1BFMG-CLEAR SKIES found at 16:15.

The second one GC1CJ01-STAR 1 found at 16:30

Then the third mystery of the day GC1HXEG-NMPS: Saai !!!!! found at17:10.
And very closeby the cache GC1C77A-Week 20: het cachebosje bij de Astense Aa, a traditional cache found at 17:15.

Incredible India Series part 1

We walked a little round in a cache area where a lot of mystery caches are hidden. We combined three caches into a nice walk in farm area.

The first find was the cache GC1HXFP-NMPS: Uitgebuit that we logged at 14:15.

Then a walk to the second one of today the cache GC1NVTW-Incredible India Serie #3 - Met de trein
We logged it at 14:45.

Next was a sanitary stop.

And last cache in the round of today the cache GC1NVRH-Incredible India Serie #2 - Op de weg, nicely hidden but uncovered at 15:55.

Bosveld Cache

The cache of choice for today (GCJ0Q0-Bosveld Cache) is a multi of 12 kms in Belgium, the country south of the Netherlands, but not to far from our home.

It brought us to a forest area where we had to visit a couple of way-points. At four of them we had to answer a question that needed some logic thinking, our favorite ones.

But not all parts of the forest were accessible, you wonder what can be found behind these signs. We didn't check..

We discovered the final box at 15:40 and we walked about 2 kms less than expected.

Murder Case

The cache that we wanted to do today was GC1PWBV-Plaats Delict., a cache with a murder-solve theme. We had to find a couple of clues like a food print, finger print, and a DNA sample...

The way-points were very nicely made.

And here the guys are waiting for me to solve one of the clues.

With all the clues discovered and solved, we found the box that contained the murder weapon at 14:25, so case closed.


In this area a couple of caches from the week-series are hidden as well. So taking advantage of this we found GC1A341-Week 11: de achthoekige kapel van Mierlo at 14:45.

The cache GC1HFKQ-Week 43: Erwtje 92 at 14:50


And the cache GC1ENR0-Week 31: op de brink van Hersel at 14:55.

Still early in the afternoon we had some time left to do another short multi called GC15WT9-Gebergten aka Dutch mountains.
This was a more traditional made cache with tags that display the coordinates of the next way-point, sounds easy, but due to the color and condition of the tags, made it a challenging task for us.

But we could find the cache-box at 16:15

Number 500

We planned this weekend for our number 500 cache a couple of months ago...
For this joyful event we picked a night cache (GC17BYW-Waardeloos!). It is a cache that first starts with a series of mysteries to be solved at home. These mysteries were solved in May of this year.
We invited a couple of caching camper friends.

It was a very funny cache at one point somebody had to climb a tree, so Rob went up.

We walked about 19 Kms and were out there in the forest more than 7 hours...
So the bench we encountered at a certain way-point near the end was welcomed by half of the team.

The cache-box was discovered and opened at 01:15.

Making our total caches 500
We earned the next banner:


Inside the cache box was a so-called hitchhiker cache (GC1A74-Hitchhiker 42 (Making 'Waardeloos' valuable)), it is a cache that is traveling around itself, this was our first and we logged it at 01:16 .
And after this it was time to enjoy our mobile home for a good night sleep (well actually a half night sleep...)

Sweet Seventeen

On Friday we will go for our number 500 cache. To reach this amount we still had one cache left to do. The cache of choice was GC18VZP-Sweet-Seventeen.nl a solved mystery cache. We logged it at 12:00 making our total caches found 499, ready for the big 500 this weekend.

Magical World

This week the schools are having a week autumn holiday. I took my two nephews out caching. We chose a multi-cache nearby where they live.

While walking this cache we passed by a traditional (GC1JGWM-Bomruiming Meerhoven) that we found at 13:40.

At one point we had to count big rocks laying around, but one of my nephews laid down one one of those rocks.

We found the cache GC1RXTE-De verdwenen magische wereld at 14:35.
With still some time left we tried another cache, but we had to cancel that one because we could not find one of the way-points, so reason to come back sometime.