Our first event cache

On Saturday Mr S attended our first event cache - WWFM IV Lap of Honour. Ms S wasn't able to attend due to being in hospital, but Mr S made sure there was a video of the event so she could see what she missed out on. The event was the Sydney part of the World Wide Flash Mob IV, and was one small component of the international WWFM IV organised by Sonny and Sandy from Podcacher.

It was a fun event to be part of, even though Mr S missed out on the FTF. If the next one involves running, there'll need to be some training as Mr S struggled a bit and there was a bit of huffing and puffing. It was worth it though to be part of this event, and we can now claim a find on our first event cache.

There is talk of the next WWFM in Sydney being held at the same time as the San Diego event, which would be anywhere between 3am and 5am Sydney time. We'd love to be part of it, but we'll have to see how much sleep our baby geocacher is letting us have.

Our baby geocacher's nearly here!

On Friday Ms S was admitted to hospital after her obstetrician was a bit concerned about how things were progressing with her pregnancy. The opinion of our obstetrician and renal specialist is that our baby will be here sometime this week. It's a bit of a scary thought, and although 32-33 weeks is a bit early the baby's doing well so everything should be OK.

Stumped no longer

We managed to remove another cache from our to-do list. Stumped... has had us, well, stumped, for a while now. We weren't able to find it when it was initially placed as a multi-cache, and Mr S had no luck trying to find it when it was converted to a traditional cache. Last weekend we went out on another mission, and made the find.

It turns out we (well, Mr S) were looking near the wrong stump. Once we saw that there was another likely hiding spot, it wasn't long before we had the cache in hand. This was our lesson in not being too focussed on the arrow on the GPSr, and stopping to look around to see if there are any other likely hiding spots nearby.

Our to-do list is shrinking, and hopefully we can cross a few more off soon.

Event caches

We are still yet to attend an event cache. The first one we could have attended was C.C.C.C.C. #3 (All Rogues Day) last year, but it was on the same weekend that we moved house. Last month was the first meeting of Geocaching NSW Inc., but that fell on our wedding day. Finally, we think there's an event that we'll be able to attend - the WWFM IV event in Sydney.

After hearing Sonny and Sandy from Podcacher talk about the WWFM III event, we thought it would be fun to take part in a WWFM if there was one organised in Sydney. Ms S will be on the support crew and take some photos and video of the event, while Mr S will take part in the run. Sounds like a fun day, and we'll finally have the chance to put some faces to geocaching names.

Another milestone in our caching career

After a bit of a lull in our caching activity which was caused by the fact we had to organise our wedding, we finally made another find yesterday, and it was another milestone in our caching career.

Pearce Family Plot was the first cache that we found as husband and wife. It was also memorable for the fact that we discovered the battery in our car was flat when we got back to it after finding the cache. After waiting for the NRMA Road Service, we were on our way again.

With daylight saving starting in Sydney this Sunday, we may be able to hunt some caches after work.

Sad news about our first cache placement

The first cache that we placed, Sshhh! had a few DNFs recently, and those cachers that had found it had commented on the amount of litter that had been building up in the area. Mr S went for a look on Saturday, and confirmed that it had been muggled. We decided to archive it, as the area seemed to be becoming unsuitable as a cache hiding spot. We've got a cache container ready to go. All we need to do is find a suitable location for it.

Our second first to find

We recently managed to snare our second FTF. It was The Sacred Order of the Stonecutters, and there was a bit of confusion whether or not we were actually there first. We think we were lucky to try this one during school holidays when some of the regular FTF-hounds were out of town.