The Hugging Trees Holywood, Ulster, Ireland
By
andreabelfast on 05-Jan-16. Waypoint GC69J8B
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Logs
Dropping at the airport and a couple of hours to spare came round to the wood to give the dog a good walk. Reverse engineered this cache and reached a possible area first - followed the instructions and cache was in hand. Liked this one and fav added. TFTC
First cache of 2016 - quickly found once I worked out which direction was SW. Have a favourite for clever camo, and for pointing out the hugging trees. TFTC!
Was a few miles away when the I read the email at 2.50 so thought there was a good chance of a ftf and I needed a cache for 16th jan so I headed for it. Found gz quickly then set to looking. Went round and around, up and down, cursed my weight and took another walk around with the description in mind and thwre it was. TFTFTF
#3231 and only find today!
What was only meant to be a quick outing to Redburn Country Park in hope of nailing a FTF on a new cache just published, ended up with a walk around most of the area after bumping into a fellow geocacher and randomly getting to know a family of three, who we met at one cache site and were interested in what we were up to! Ended up walking back down the hill with this family after explaining geocaching to them. Time will tell if they are hooked or not!
Notification of this new cache came through at 13.41 but it was after 14.00 before I noticed it and around 14.20 by the time I left the house to drive to Redburn. Parked my car at the junction of Demesne Road, Jacksons Road and Old Holywood Road and set off up the ‘long walk’ on my way to GZ.
Cut right at the first junction, then left the path a few metres further on, turning off left and climbing up the steep slope to the upper path. As I approached GZ, I saw a figure standing still facing ‘out to sea’ and looking at his mobile phone. It had to be another cacher! And indeed it was, as I soon recognised hairytoeman! Ugh! He had already found the cache and was busy logging the find online.
No matter. I followed the instructions and was soon searching some likely hiding places a little way down the path. After looking in several places I came back to the first spot which seemed the most likely and then I spotted the cleverly camouflaged hide. After that it was a simple matter to get it ‘in my hand’ and sign the log. Hairytoeman was all for sharing the FTF but I couldn’t do that as he had already replaced the cache and walked away from GZ by the time I caught up with him. FTF honours are definitely his and his alone! Well done Stephen.
TFTC Andrea. Great hide. FP awarded.
With this cache found I offered to accompany hairytoeman on a walk around the top and to assist him in nailing a few more finds here before calling it a day. In the end, he managed four more finds, namely: Bruno the bear, Robins nest, Belfast View once again and Need a lift?
What was only meant to be a quick outing to Redburn Country Park in hope of nailing a FTF on a new cache just published, ended up with a walk around most of the area after bumping into a fellow geocacher and randomly getting to know a family of three, who we met at one cache site and were interested in what we were up to! Ended up walking back down the hill with this family after explaining geocaching to them. Time will tell if they are hooked or not!
Notification of this new cache came through at 13.41 but it was after 14.00 before I noticed it and around 14.20 by the time I left the house to drive to Redburn. Parked my car at the junction of Demesne Road, Jacksons Road and Old Holywood Road and set off up the ‘long walk’ on my way to GZ.
Cut right at the first junction, then left the path a few metres further on, turning off left and climbing up the steep slope to the upper path. As I approached GZ, I saw a figure standing still facing ‘out to sea’ and looking at his mobile phone. It had to be another cacher! And indeed it was, as I soon recognised hairytoeman! Ugh! He had already found the cache and was busy logging the find online.
No matter. I followed the instructions and was soon searching some likely hiding places a little way down the path. After looking in several places I came back to the first spot which seemed the most likely and then I spotted the cleverly camouflaged hide. After that it was a simple matter to get it ‘in my hand’ and sign the log. Hairytoeman was all for sharing the FTF but I couldn’t do that as he had already replaced the cache and walked away from GZ by the time I caught up with him. FTF honours are definitely his and his alone! Well done Stephen.
TFTC Andrea. Great hide. FP awarded.
With this cache found I offered to accompany hairytoeman on a walk around the top and to assist him in nailing a few more finds here before calling it a day. In the end, he managed four more finds, namely: Bruno the bear, Robins nest, Belfast View once again and Need a lift?
