Logs for Mario McTavish 

To anyone that wishes to complete this one. I've completed the UK virtual cache and had the answers confirmed, quite happy to help. 

Having crossed the bridge we came down to this spot. No issues here really, thanks for placing this virtual cache. 

I had to come and get this cache, pretty much a 'must do' cache when in the area.

Found our way to GZ and hiked on over to GZ. Cache quickly found and all sorted. Thanks for placing this cache, so many years ago! A favourite point here. 

What an interesting puzzle!

Someone mentioned it to me this morning (UK time) so I thought I'd have a look.

I got to the final stage in about 20 mins but had to leave it there as I couldn't get the final section to work.
Turns out I was using an inadequate tool. A quick rethink/jig just now and the solution popped up in front of me.

Nicely done  

I was on a holiday to Mexico with my girlfriend. She's not a cacher so it was more a case of getting caches at places we were visiting than visiting places to get caches.

I've been to Mexico before but never made it to Tulum - something I was determined to fix this time! We hired a car from the hotel and headed off out for the day to tackle Chichen Itza, Coba and Tulum before heading elsewhere.

We parked up (dodging the usual touts) and walked on down to the ruins then had a thoroughly enjoyable time walking around the area. There's an awful lot of iguanas here too (much to my girlfriends disgust but my delight).

Once we'd explored the ruins enough we headed on down to the beach and played about in the gorgeous sea for a while before heading off to other places. Thanks for a great virtual cache. 

TB visit - log to follow 

 

What a neat little puzzle. Cracked the first stage in about 10 mins. Shame it's the other side of the world - this is what happens when you're idly clicking people's profiles and seeing what puzzles they've done, one suddenly hooks you. Hehe.

Looks great though, maybe if I ever come back to Australia  

Keep it Moving was placed in [url=http://coord.info/GC38X8Y]The "Half-Jasmer" Challenge[/url]. I'd held onto it for a few days as there was a request by someone for it to attend the Geolympix MEGA near Oxford (obviously with the CO's approval based on his note on the cache page)

I'd heard nothing more about that so placed it in a rather large sized container. Can't say how long it'll be there as I met someone heading that way once I was back to the car, however should it move I know it'll be heading for another 5* diff cache soon. 

The cache is being dropped off tomorrow.  

As per my note on the 28th June, the cache is currently in my possession.  

Good news travels fast. Although I've already found this one my son wanted to log it as found so we made a dash up and have grabbed this one, having been tipped off to its location.

We'll relocate it to a suitable cache soon  

Ok... not QUITE found in the wild, but the sentiment was there.

I was halfway to it's previous resting place when AnTsInRpAnTs logged that they'd retrieved it. As I was only heading that way for this cache I decided to abandon the drive and head home. This is the last of the 3 (currently resident) UK travelling caches that I needed to find. One I'd found at an event where someone had taken it, another I had driven half the length of the UK to pick up in North Wales, and then this one that I have been waiting to find for a while now.

I'd seen it in Scotland, then it came down to south England, only some 30-40 miles from home, and I was all prepared to get it. Unfortunately it was dropped off JUST too late for me to drive up and grab before heading to work, and it had been retrieved before I finished. Then it was grabbed again before I could get to it... so I decided to skip the middle man (cache?) and see if the current holders would mind me popping round to find it before it was placed again.

Thankfully they agreed so I drove up today after work (another 50+ mile drive) and stopped in at their place to sign the log book. PHEW! Finally done it.

I have a penchant for older caches, and rare caches too (D/Ts, types, whatever) so it was good to find this one. I did offer to move it on but they have plans for it, which is fine by me . If I had collected it I had toyed with the idea of taking it to a meet but then saw the COs note about 'no more meets please' so I would have found a good cache/location in which to place it.

Thanks for keeping this old, rare cache alive. Long may it continue  

Submitting my completed list of required containers for this challenge. I have no idea when I'll be able to collect the cache itself, but it's nice to know I can
I did all 7 sizes, just for completeness.

Small - [url=http://coord.info/GC292DD]GC292DD - Victor Vault[/url] - 12th October 2010
Micro - [url=http://coord.info/GC13PF6]GC13PF6 - Ecotricity[/url] - 14th October 2010
Not Given - [url=http://coord.info/GC2EHYE]GC2EHYE - Hampshire Monthly Mid-week Cache Event[/url] - 13th October 2010
Other - [url=http://coord.info/GC1NRPD]GC1NRPD - Final Curtain For Teenage Pressure![/url] - 27th October 2010
Large - [url=http://coord.info/GC2GKJR]GC2GKJR - One Man And His Dog[/url] - 5th November 2011
Virtual - [url=http://coord.info/GC1B78]GC1B78 - Avebury Stone Circle (Wilts)[/url] - 23rd November 2011

and Regular - [url=http://coord.info/GC2P2TM]GC2P2TM - Elite[/url] - 21st February 2011 

Just submitting my completed list of qualifying caches for this challenge. As with the others in the series I've no idea if/when I'll be able to collect, but it's good to know I can.
Again, I'm submitting more than is required.

Traditional - [url=http://coord.info/GC2FNJE]GC2FNJE - Georges' Falcon![/url] - 13th October 2010
Unknown - [url=http://coord.info/GC1XHZ7]GC1XHZ7 - Box Clever #1[/url] - 23rd December 2010
Earthcache - [url=http://coord.info/GC2H1CB]GC2H1CB - The North Downs[/url] - 23rd October 2010
Virtual - [url=http://coord.info/GC45CC]GC45CC - Ye Old Survey Monuments[/url] - 28th March 2010
Letterbox - [url=http://coord.info/GC255YX]GC255YX - Hampshire Alphabet Chain - F is For Fritham[/url] - 18th November 2010
Webcam - [url=http://coord.info/GCA347]GCA347 - Avebury Inner Eye (Wilts)[/url] - 23rd November 2011
CITO - [url=http://coord.info/GC2J4PN]GC2J4PN - River Thames CITO Event[/url] - 12th December 2010
Event - [url=http://coord.info/GC2H7E4]GC2H7E4 - 24th Hants Mid-Week Caching Event - Barn Dance[/url] - 8th December 2010

and Multi - [url=http://coord.info/GC1P2DD]GC1P2DD - Henry VIII's Castle[/url] - 28th March 2010 

Just submitting my completed list of qualifying difficulty caches for this challenge. As with the others, no idea if/when I'll ever collect it..

Just to spice things up a little, I decided to do ALL the difficulty ratings at a Terrain rating of 5. Can't be making things TOO easy now, can we

4.5 - [url=http://coord.info/GC2C8TH]GC2C8TH - Cache By Kayak - Stand And Deliver[/url] - 6th May 2011
4 - [url=http://coord.info/GC27R5G]GC27R5G - Dhama Initiative[/url] - 26th April 2011
3.5 - [url=http://coord.info/GC2C8TG]GC2C8TG - Cache By Kayak - Kneely There[/url] - 6th May 2011
3 - [url=http://coord.info/GCY7W2]GCY7W2 - O is for Overboard[/url] - 6th May 2011
2.5 - [url=http://coord.info/GC2C8TK]GC2C8TK - Cache By Kayak - Reed 'em and Weep[/url] - 6th May 2011
2 - [url=http://coord.info/GCV7XW]GCV7XW - Solent 3 (So Near And Yet So Far0[/url] - 26th March 2011
1.5 - [url=http://coord.info/GCYFCX]GCYFCX - Garn - Rock Cannon 3[/url] - 10th April 2011
1 - [url=http://coord.info/GC1312V]GC1312V - Moel Yr Hydd - South Snowdonia[/url] - 10th April 2011

And

5 - [url=http://coord.info/GC20CKC]GC20CKC - A Bailey Bridge Revisited[/url] - 6th May 2011 

Just submitting my completed list for this challenge, the 4th of the series I now qualify for. As with the others, actually logging a find could be tricky, but nice to know I can should I ever be in the area.

Like the Difficulty BGSc, I decided to do all the different Terrain ratings at a Difficulty Rating of 5, again just to make it a bit more challenging.

Here's my list.

4.5 - [url=http://coord.info/GC26Z1x]GC26Z1X - When The Going Gets Tough[/url] - 26th April 2011
4 - [url=http://coord.info/GC1MHDM]GC1MHDM - Calculatem![/url] - 27th April 2011
3.5 - [url=http://coord.info/GC2GG7W]GC2GG7W - Ahoy There![/url] - 26th April 2011
3 - [url=http://coord.info/GC26W7A]GC26W7A - Just For Mum - Just Tiddlers[/url] - 26th April 2011
2.5 - [url=http://coord.info/GCW2BH]GCW2BH - Pick Me![/url] - 23rd October 2010
2 - [url=http://coord.info/GCZGMJ]GCZGMJ - They Should Have Listened To Cassandra[/url] - 3rd November 2010
1.5 - [url=http://coord.info/GC2HD75]GC2HD75 - Surrey Resuscitator - Challenge Cache[/url] - 3rd November 2010
1 - [url=http://coord.info/GC124W4]GC124W4 - 2.5 x 4 x 8.5[/url] - 16th April 2011

And

5 - [url=http://coord.info/GC2DDBJ]GC2DDBJ - Cache By Kayak - FD's Extra[/url] - 6th May 2011 

A quick find whilst we were in the area. The bonus number was noted, thanks  

It was the 30th here in the UK when I wrote the note  

Yup, easy. Answer in under a minute  

Adding as one of my favourites as it was the first ever cache I did. 

Well I have co-ords that match the checksum, just awaiting confirmation they might be correct

Although, even with my passion for FTFs, 11,717.8mi might be just a bit too far...  

well the crossword was simple enough... now for the next bit  

Another one of Grumpy Ants '6 cache types in a day' caches, to qualify for various challenge caches around the UK. I qualified (again - having done the challenge a month or so ago) too. A nice quick earthcache, we would have done the other one on the opposite side of the A4 too, but it was a bit of a trek and we were a little time limited. TFTC 

Just a question... Do you have to do them in NZ? 

Muggle dodging again and had to loiter til the locals drove away, but lovely spot. Grumpy Ant enjoyed the looks she got... 

Had me in stitches, then got a load of thorns in my foot. Funny though. 

Lovely gentle stroll with Grumpy Ant to find this one, had to dodge the odd muggle. 

Amazing views over the sound, enjoyed this one with Marchwood and Grumpy Ant. 

After much hunting eventually found it with the help of Marchwood. Lovely spot, great for a swim. 

Another stop off on the way to Blenheim with Marchwood and Grumpy Ant.
TFTC 

Found on way to Blenheim, had to chuckle at Marchwood S doing his best to look nonchalant around the workmen.
TFTC 

Beautiful piece of machinery, they don't make them like this anymore. Found it with Grumpy Ant and Marchwood. TFTC 

Stopped off on the way to Blenheim with Marchwood and Grumpy Ant, TFTC 

chose the gentler stroll up, but still rewarded with fab views at the end. went for a much needed dip afterwards.

TFTC 

Did this with Marchwood and Grumpy Ant  

Great views, lovely spot. TFTC 

Amazing little spot with a fab walk along the coast, stopped here with Marchwood and Grumpy Ant 

Popped in with Grumpy Ant and Marchwood, great views, TFTC 

Found the cache, but couldn't get it open guess i was doing something wrong. Now i'm back on the other side of the world and will probably never get this one open, haha. anyone got any hints? 

Good cache, not too tricky, looking forward to step-three 

First cache I did, enjoyed it and started me on geocache