Has Geocaching taken over your life? Think whether some of the following are true for you:
• Each time you enter the supermarket, you feel drawn to the tupperware section.
• If it's not the tupperware, it's the toy / party section looking for items small enough to fit inside tupperware containers.
• Every pile of stones seems to be a potential Geocache hiding place.
• You check your email many times a day for potential new caches in your area. You may even have special software installed on your computer which does this for you.
• You've had your GPS confiscated "for your own good".
• You no longer visualise/think of the area in terms of streets and addresses but rather cache locations.
• No matter who you are with, you can't resist pointing out a nearby cache when passing.
• You realise you can now read the hints without clicking “Decrypt” or looking at the key.
• You get distracted watching films because you keep scanning the background scenery, thinking, “That’d be a GREAT place for a cache!”
• The police have taken an interest in your suspicious behaviour while caching. More than once.
• While everyone else puts a quid in the coffee fund in the office, you TAKE a quid and leave a Travel Bug.
• The police take an interest in the sheer number of small plastic bags you buy when you visit the supermarket.
• The location of nearby caches is one of the most important considerations when planning a holiday.
• You break out into a cold sweat when you can't lay your hands on your GPS when getting ready for a caching trip.
If you can relate to more than a couple of these then this cache is for you.
There are some among us (and you know who you are) when they look at their first page showing the 25 nearest caches to their home location who feel a sense of pride and have a glowing feeling in the belly every time they scan down the list and see ticks next to every single item. Many have extended this list to the second and third page too.
Then, that new cache suddenly appears on the list with one purpose in mind. It sits there on the list, like an unblinking eye taunting you. It says "Find me... I'm waiting for you!". Even though the sun hasn't risen, you're out on the road with the hope of getting yet another First to Find.
Once found, all is well again in the world - that list looks nice and complete and order is restored.
The challenge of this cache is simple. Can you show the world that you're not an addict to your hobby and resist finding it?
• There is no invigorating walk.
• There are no breathtaking views.
• There is no First to Find trophy to find or other cool pieces of cache swag to trade for. In fact, the cache is a recycled food contrainer. And it's probably damp too.
• The cache is hidden behind a multi-trunked tree up a bank next to a very busy road in a grotty layby at most 1 minute from the parked car.
In fact, the only thing you have to gain from searching out this cache is just adding another find to your total.
Thanks to the other similarly themed caches around the world for the idea and also for the material used in the description ~ copied by kind permission of cache-bang-wallop.
All we ask is that, just in case you succumbed to temptation and genuinely wanted to log it as a DNF as you suspect the cache is missing, please contact us directly so that we can investigate. We suspect there may be many fun DNF which will be logged for this cache by cachers who just want to let us all know they're not going to find it!