Greenwich Hemispheric Exploration London, United Kingdom
By Master Mariner on 29-Mar-04. Waypoint GCJ006

Visited today as part of a visit to Greenwich. Cool to see all the tall ships on the river and even better as we cruised down amoung them.

Headed up and started this virtual and once everything was all was good. E-mail has been forwarded to the CO and hopefully all should be good.

Thanks Master Mariner for the tour and the history lesson.

We did the hemispheric walk twice this day and we enjoyed it really.
The answer finally was not easy to recognize, as we were late to look at the firework too at that brilliant evening.

Thank you for the cache

Found with the_dave on a sunny day in Greenwich. Part 1 took a little wandering back and forth before enlightenment suddenly struck Dave! TFTC

Found while out with goldfish62 - a most enjoyable wander, although part 3 was a little puzzling at first, until I re-read the description & paid slightly closer attention!

TFTC

This exploration fit quite well to the other ones we were doing today.

Since this was my first visit to this place with a GPS-enabled device I "saw" it differently than on my last visit several years ago.

It seems to me that a lot has changed in the last few years since my last visit to Greenwich and I am already looking forward to coming here again.

TFTC

OAndreas

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Ein schöner Spaziergang rund um das Observatorium mit Ausblick auf alte und neue Gebäude! Die Runde hat mir trotz Regen gut gefallen, vielen Dank.
#6066

Started off Saturday morning's London visit with this cache. A nice walk around the area on a beautiful morning. If it hadn't been for this cache, I probably would have never thought to go look for a spot like in step 3. Took some screen captures from the GPS with W/E all zeroes.
Thanks for bringing me to that location, and then the final spot of the virtual multi. Afterwards, rewarded myself with a very locally produced beer

GPComd
Ottawa, Canada

On a beautiful Sunday I spent half a day in Greenwich. Many years ago I had visited Greenwich already and had gone to the Observatory at the time. This was long before geocaching existed, but of course I had to go back in order to see a row of zeros appearing on the gps. Thanks from the Netherlands.

First day of our 4 day visit to London.
After a smooth journey we arrived shortly before noon in our hotel. We parked the car and decided to go on foot towards the O2 Arena. The walk turned out a bit longer than planned and resulted in 30km in total!
Very enjoyable and sunny weather, great day [^].
[blue]Fun multi virtual cache with a nice walk.[/blue]
TFTC Master Mariner!
Smiley 12958 on the map for me.

Great find ! Went to do this cache on a lovely sunny evening which was great ! The grounds were beautiful! Don't usually come to Greenwich very often , so this was a bonus ! TFTC

Today our target was to find eight different cache types on a single day. This should not be a big issue in London, but we did not consider that parks get closed at sunset in London, so the Letterbox was not available any more in the end. Nevertheless, we had found seven different types today, weather was fine, we did see a lot of things on our walk and had a wonderful day.

We had a wonderful walk here in Greenwich when searching this cache. In between we did some other caches but finally we reached our target and could gather the requested information.

Thanks for the cache
Team cpk-geo

Today, we tried to get as much cache types at one day as possible. First, we started at greenwich to get the Virtual, the Mystery, the traditional and the WhereIGo Cache. Additionally we wanted to get to the meridian zero (because I think every geocacher should go there if he is in London). After that, we went to Westminster searching for a multi Cache, a Webcam and an Earth cache. At the end, we wanted to go to a letterbox, but unfortunatly, the park in wich the letterbox is was closed because it was quite dark, so we just got seven cache types at one day.

Thank you for the Cache.
Dorf-Kater

Very good cache and walk! TFTC!

I was here at Greenwich some years ago already. I don't remember if this Cache was already there then. But today during my second visit i absolved this Cache. All the tasks could be solved without further problems.

Thank you for running this Cache and thank you for log permition.

Wishes from Switzerland
Tectronic

I thoroughly enjoyed this virtual, even if it did take me two visits to complete - be careful with those co-ordinate conversions!!
The tide was in today, and I nearly got soaked walking near the waters edge as the waves splashed up high.
Many thanks for the tour. Have a fave

Great hide thanks for the cache!
Thank for lovely walk

A great walk around Greewich on a beautiful sunny day in the company of hedgepiglet.

TFTC!

Our Michi stands a few days with alefran in London.
We have seen so much beautiful places but in the short time we can't see all what we want.
The weather was very beautiful und the people are very helpful.
It was a good time as we stay in London.
A great pity that the time was going so fast.
We also made some caches.
They are sometimes very tricky hidden.
We say thanks to all the Owner for the caches.
We are coming back to another time.

Many thanks for the very fast answer from the owner.

This virtuell cache bring us to very interesting and nice places.
Thank you for showing.
Here we give an Favorit Point.

DfdC
Team_T.O.M.

I was with Michi from Team_T.O.M. on Holiday in London for a week.
We have seen so much beautiful places but in the short time we can't see all what we want.
The weather was very beautiful und the people are very helpful.
It was a good time as we stay in London.
A great pity that the time was going so fast.
We also made some caches.
They are sometimes very tricky hidden.
We say thanks to all the Owner for the caches.
We are coming back to another time.

This virtuell cache bring us to very interesting and nice places.
Thank you for showing.
Here we give an Favorit Point.


TFTC
ALEfran

Out with MRPSCAMP today`s walk around Greenwich
signed logs as Team AB
quick easy find.....tftc

Found during a nice walk around the park before going to see Avenue Q in the evening.
Thanks for a great and interesting virtual cache

Answers sent to CO.

TFTC - a lovely virtual, and a place I've been many times without a GPS! Answers emailed to CO, thanks for maintaining what is a dying breed of cache.

We were heading back home from the Kent Mega and decided to have a few hours in Greenwich.

We parked at the Observatory and went in there first completing that virtual cache. Then we headed down the park to the waterfront collecting the blue blood and sludge puzzle, before heading over to the Whisky Galore virtual. From there we started this virtual multi.

Stage one completed and we headed off towards stage 2. Rob had seen a boating pool so Pam and Rob went on the paddle boats whilst I went and found stage 2 of the cache. I then returned to meet them at the boating lake before we finished the cache.

Thanks for an enjoyable walk on a warm afternoon. Information on its way

TNLNSL TFTC PhilPamAndRob

Amazing place and great view to the city! Thanks a lot for creating this Virtual Cache!
Answers emailed!
+FP

Like others, I hit this virtual after seeing/completing most of the caches in the area which meant trekking back up the hill. Mind you this isn't a bad thing as its a beautiful area and I could use the exercise.

Answers emailed, thank you for creating and maintaining this virtual... this one gets a favorite!

Found this with fitzy_1965 and AwesomeL during our European holidays...

Looking around Greenwich today. Walked around finding the 4 Virtuals and the 10 Greenwich Gate series of caches. This was a lot of fun ! fitzt_1965 gathered the info and sent it to the CO.

Greetings from Australia !

8232 + 981 = 9213. Found with ACBC66 and AwesomeL during our European holiday…

Our last full day of the holiday and we spent most of the day at Greenwich. I have been here several times but this is the first time as a Cacher - so lots to do ! I targeted the 4 Virtuals and the Greenwich Gates Series. We caught the DLR to Island Gardens (glad it was running despite the Tube Strike) and walked through the tunnel. After the other 3 Virtuals and the Gates series we completed this one. Loved walking around this place. Info sent to CO.

Thanks Master Mariner ! A Favourite Point from Me !

TNLN – TFTC !!

Cheers from Australia….

Following the instruction it was easy to solve the cache. It was an special experience to observe the changing GPSr readings and to jump back and forth from hemisphere to hemisphere [:o)]. Thanks for maintaining this cache.

That a nice walk around !

Nice and got a lot of fun whit manolie !

And very happy to be yours 100 fav

That very impressive and well deserved !

What a nice trip from Montreal Canada to London
first went in London travel around make a lot of nice caches amazing and unbelievable city!

For this trip it cost me a lot of favorite point !
we went to Oxford ,Blenheim visit castle ,take the boat ,go at the observatories !

it was simply my best Geocaching experience outside of by cities !

We rent some bicycle and travel all the city with it
it's so easy like that and we had so much fun between buses , and Maserati , Ferrari , Bentley ....

It's was simply crazy !

We also went a bit further to visit some castle and grocery so we had some time to make some little cache here and there're !

For some cache we log (sm) or sebdeg and manolie where we had more space

A big big tanks to all owner that made thoses cache it's so appreciate and fun !

Please continue to keep it in live !

You are part of ours good time !

Tanks you
sebdeg Canada Quebec

On our second day in Great Britain we made a visit to Greenwich. The answer to the first part was found really fast but after looking at the coordinates for the second part we let out a sigh: going up the hill for the third time for this day. We found the desitred spot, got our answer and finally we arrived at the spot with the answer for this cache. The facts were noted for later use and shortly after that we got on to our next goal for the day.

Thanks for this virtual say


Dani, Pia and Erik.

We had an awesome hemispheric walk while visiting Greenwich, the home of the Coordinates ...such a nice place Fort this great Exploration I'll spent a favorite point... of course tftc

Really interesting GPS walk. Thanks.

Found on a wonderfull day in Greenwich.

Oh the fun I had with this one.
Got the first item easily. Then plugged in the coords for Part II and wondered in awonderment, but then eventually went around there anyway. Couldn't find Part II but the description mentioned somewhere else I'd passed earlier in the morning so I re-traced my step and was rewarded with the correct solution. Walked back for the goodies and was pleasantly surprised by the whiole thing.
TFTC

Nice to task and a beautiful park to spend time. Greetings from Finland.

This was very interesting tour, thanks for the introduction. Nice walking in sunny weather, TFTC!

lovely walk through the park. thanks for showing us this interesting paradox

Team BackSeat (kaiserin, nikegyver, Arthur95 and me) in London.
Thank you for this very nice "Greenwich Hemispheric Exploration" tour. We enjoyed it very much!

Thank you for showing us (Team Backseat with oehmchen74, kaiserin, nikegyver, Arthur95) this lovely and historical place.

BackSeat on LondonTrip (kaiserin, oehmchen74, Arthur95 and moi)

this is what we get for in Greenwich... had lot's of fun... and the Aha-effect you wanted us to get... tftC

We are in London for a long weekend. Of course we need to do a couple of caches while we are here.

The answers for this virtual were found quiet easily.


UIT (OUT): niets / nothing, IN (IN): niets / nothing
Bedankt Master Mariner voor deze cache.

Het aantal caches die we tijdens deze trip hebben gevonden is: 12.
Van deze trip was dit gevonden cache: 12.
Het totaal aantal door ons gevonden caches is: 1897.
Het totaal aantal gevonden caches in United Kingdom is: 25.

Thanks Master Mariner for this cache.
The number of caches we found on this run is: 12.
This cache was number 12 of this run.
The total amount of caches we found is: 1897.
The total number of caches we found in United Kingdom is: 25.

Another cache I wanted to collect since I first got to England... 18 months ago Now with just 2 days left in the country before heading home I finally found the time to visit and wander both sides of the old and new Meridians. While the other virtual at the observatory is nice, dont ignore this one as it will take you on a great tour and explain a bit more about the Greenwich area with interesting waypoints. Doesnt take that long. The only problem I encountered was projecting the waypoint half way through as the calculator didnt know how to hand the East/West Shift in co-ords... so I used a more old school way of marking the co-ords, taking a bearing and walking the distance in a straight line. That fixed it! From there it was all downhill... literally

Answers sent to the CO.

Cheers from Sydney, Australia.

I had a great time around Greenwich doing this cache, wandering around the West and East hemispheres, even standing in no-mans-land where the hemispheric is not clear .

This visit to the prime meridian was very poignant for me as in May this year I was straddling the prime meridian on the other side of the world on Taveuni Island in Fiji.

Thanks for this cache and the wander it took me on, and the information it provided.

Found by Mary & David from Australia at 1525. In Greenwich for the day to see the sights again and this time add in some caching. Enjoyed the tour of the town and the park while gathering the info for this cache. All those historic exhibits and buildings are well worth a second look, particulary those at the end. Our thanks to Carharty for an interesting day.

We made this cache together with some others in Greenwich during our visit in London. It was a nice way to explore Greenwich!

Greetings from Vienna / Austria!

4:55pm

We had some trouble with this one. The second set of coords took us over a half mile from where we needed to be. But luckily we knew where we could find Wolfe. It all seemed a bit confusing to us but we are no experts in maths or technology. Anyway, we enjoyed the nice walk around the area.

Thanks.

Jessex

Really enjoyed our walk round Greenwich this afternoon - thanks for the cache. Email on it's way.

#2 of 43 on "Mad Cache Dash II: The Solo Journey."

When I found this cache earlier on the 30th I did not know that I would be going out on a marathon session later in the day. I found this cache at about 1:15pm.

Nipped over during a lunch break to walk around Greenwich. Am pretty sure I have the right location (e-mail coming). Enjoyed the stroll! Thought I might be the first to find as I hadn't checked the listing for a few days. You just can't trust those Canadians!!! TFTC!

[This entry was edited by OzGuff on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 at 12:47:54 PM.]