The curse of the Beach Hut

With half term upon us, we decided to spend a day out Geocaching and clearing up a bit more of Peterborough. We had 42 to beat our single day record, and Pip_Squeek needs 48 to reach 300.

Having grabbed breakfast at McDonalds, we decided to start at Eye and work our way inwards. We headed up to GC2E0J1 - Top of tree!, excited by the prospect of something different but it was not to be - we couldn't find the cache, and instead found lots of evidence of it missing completely. :( Little did we know it would set the tone for the day!

Finding we didn't have a pair of tweezers between us (El-Woodio had used his for something different and left them behind, mine were in my house and Pip_Squeek had lost hers around the Linwood Loop yesterday), we headed into Eye to buy some new ones. However, we had no luck and headed first to Sainsburys, then up to Tesco Extra at Serpentine Green.

Well, while we're here, we may as well try Beach Hut's new puzzle this way, GC4Y971 - Posh Piccie Promenade 2. It looks to be really interesting and logistically, it couldn't be that hard, surely?! We located all the points we needed quickly, but then spent over an hour going back and forth trying to find the right spot. I have a natural curse of BH's caches, I now have 4 of his caches that I have all the information for, and mostly co-ordinates (just this one missing!), and not a single cache signed! It's turning out to be a true problem of mine! Eventually we quit here, but Beach Hut has since informed me that we were tantalizingly close...

We move on and collect a few caches around Orton Malbourne, and across into Woodston. Woodston in particular was muggle-packed, between lorry drivers and office workers I think we only really had about a 60% success rate here.

By lunchtime, we were feeling pretty dejected. My mum lives in an outerlying village and, loosing our mojo, we decided to pack up for the day. Pip_Squeek and El-woodio grabbed my newest cache at my parents and we idly flick through a few puzzles. We looked at GC2P5X5 Happy Birthday Mr Beach Hut, as I had already solved it, and Pip_Squeek's mathematical brain quickly had it sussed. We packed up from my mum's and headed out again. El-Woodio doesn't have a premium membership, so Pip_Squeek and I are on our own hunting at GZ. We were originally in the wrong place, and after 10 minutes searching I'm ready to quit in a fit of rage. Heading back to the car, Pip_Squeek checks one last place and suddenly she has it! The curse is broken!! We pick up another cache in Langtoft and head out.

Feeling buoyant with our success, I suggest GC40PYV - The Old A15.... Renewed, another Beach Hut cache I have struggled with. At GZ the rain set in and Pip_Squeek was cold, we tried our best but another DNF here for us, even after resorting to a fingertip search.

Our luck turned, however, at GC2GYYQ - GSV1. We had solved this one in August last year but hadn't claimed it then, and the last time we had tried to claim it, it was missing and w passed Beach_Hut by just an hour as he replaced it after our visit! Today we had more luck and managed to get it signed! Hooray!

Now to battle our way back home through the heavy rush hour traffic... :(

-RFF
-Finds today: RFF - 11; PS - 12; EW - 10
-Total Finds; RFF - 322; PS - 263; EW - 130.