The Return, Chichester PART 2 - Geocache

Video of the cache.
Me and Lewis finally got around to finishing the last half of the series in Dell Quay-Chichester! The original plan was to eat lunch at the pub, Crown and Anchor, and then cache afterwards. How it actually turned out was we ate lunch outside and then literally as we started to walk the heavens opened and it chucked it down. So we did the caches to following day (without lunch). As far as the pub goes for food, it's great. It is a little costly compared to other pub lunches but you are paying for the location too. I had the fish and chips (costing £14) and the fish was cooked to perfection although I didn't enjoy the mushy peas mixed with mint. Lewis ordered a burger with cheese and bacon coming in at £12. The menu isn't massive (around 6 mains) but it's very nice to sit in the sun and enjoy a lunch. 

Our view eating lunch!

Back to geocaching! 

The Return 10

This cache took longer to find than it should have because the hint had some confusing extra info "Right hand side of path in 'V' of tree head height. ICT opposite "path" to defences edge ('X' marks the spot although not buried)." The cache was just simply in a tree but I still have no idea what the rest of the hint meant and we spent some time trying to figure out what ICT means in Caching slang..

The Return 11

Upon arriving at GZ we had a brief explore for this cache but were soon cut short after a couple came and literally sat about 30 meters away from the location. We didn't want to look too suspicious so carried on and found this one on the way back!

The Return 12

A simple find if you know what part of the edge to look over, I'd say it's relatively obvious from past people pushing back the plants! 

The Return 13

Lewis went down off of the path to find this one, although it's not as low down as you'd first assume. Sometimes I think we over complicate caches..

The Return 14

This cache is very well blended in, we spent a couple of minutes looking all around two posts. We assumed it would be at the base but the cache is actually hidden within ivy along the top!

Inside we found a trackable! FarmtagZ 2015 hasn't been traveling for very long but it started in Bretagne, France. It's only been in 4 caches and was exchanged at a meet and greet, quite a lucky trackable to get from France and England so quickly!

Number 15 in this series is a church mirco and after a previous attempt at a church micro between 11-12 we decided to just skip it out and come back another time to do both church mircos in one.

What Ammo Box

I found this cache without Lewis telling me when we were there, the entrance to the cache is obvious, too obvious that it makes me wonder how exploring kids and such haven't found this! It has a lot of swaps inside and now counts as our second ammo box! 

The Return 16

I'm not really sure why the series ran through the countryside and left the last one in a public place. It does return you back into Chichester but it's located at quite a high muggle area and if you're lurking around the tree you look awfully suspicious! The tree itself is right next to the Tesco Extra walkway so many people shopping walk past here. Luckily it was a Sunday and close to closing time so their weren't too many people passing by. We stopped for some refreshments to take on our journey back!

Big Green Ugly Thing

This last cache was so close by it wasn't worth leaving! It's found by the overpass to the train tracks and although I haven't got a picture of the big green ugly thing, it is in the video if you want to see it. This cache was a feely job rather than a seeing but it didn't take too long! Just have to be careful for muggles as they walk past to get over the tracks. 

The journey itself took us around 3.5 hours to walk there and back (forgot to reset GPS so just estimating) the total distance we walked (including off track of the series to get a church micro) was 3.84 miles - 6.1 km. We arrived about half 1 and got back home at half 5. It didn't seem like a long walk but it was quite warm! I guess we can't say we've finished this series as we have the church micro to do but for now we've done 99%! All the caches part of the series were small so easily fit trackables in and luckily enough for us we bagged another trackable!

Glenturret 05 - Trackable UPDATE

We found the trackable Glenturret 05 - besucht alle Deutschen Bundesländer in Florence while at Forte Belveder. It was a nice coin and had come from Germany before hand. It had travelled around a lot of Germany but I believe that was its goal. By taking it home we may have ruined its initial goal, hopefully it can make it back over to Germany. 

We dropped it off near Chichester Marina on a series called The Return 1 in which I wrote the first part of the series here. We added on 744 miles to its journey even if it wasn't really wanted.. This is the 3rd trackable under our belt!

The video of the drop off can be watched here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFjE5Ee2dKo

The Return, Chichester - Geocache

After a while of not doing a series me and Lewis decided to head to Chichester Marina and start another series where the Lipchis canal series finished. it was also mine and Lewis' 1st year anniversary so it was nice to visit the location that our 2nd date (also the same day he asked me to be his boyfriend) took place! We only went from 1-9 as the series can be done in two parts, it's quite a big walk to do in one, we'll do the rest another time soon! 

You can watch the journey here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFjE5Ee2dKo

The Return 1

An easy cache but hard for your eyes to adjust too among the bush, it's right at the start of the footpath so I assume in the summer it's muggle central!

The Return 2

 A small container, easy to spot but I think my eye is just becoming well trained in spotting English trail caches! We also dropped of a trackable here that we picked up in Florence from Fort Belvedere, I shall also link to it's own travel blog update once completed. These caches have lovely logs, nice big notebooks that have lots of room to write the date and your name!

The Return 3

Slightly obvious to spot as the brick were unnaturally stacked by I suppose a passer by wouldn't suspect a thing!

Just a little further up you can see a small barn with lots of cows in. Not very exciting but it's a break from all the green lovely scenery!

The Return 4

 This cache was marked as under maintenance but checking the logs I saw that someone had fixed it, I added it to the GPS just in case it was there and behold it was! It was previously believed to be vandalised but it is kind of suspicious with some twigs stacked up on a tree. Perhaps the farmer was sick of people hanging around near his cows. 

The Return 5

At a 45 degree angle.. I wonder where it could be!

In among some stinging nettles of course.

The Return 6

 A nice little co-ordinates cache (multi-cache). I did wonder how there would be one at first when it was just open field after open field and then there was this random sign in the middle of no where to get the answers to the questions! It's about the Airfield, gives you something to learn along the walk. 

After putting in the co-ordinates you can easily find the cache hidden away, there were lots of little mice running around, they must have been protecting the cache from any more vandals! 

The Return 7

High in a tree, easy to see and probably a bit odd to anyone who spots it. A random box in a tree! It did have a one off signature in it that wasn't in the previous cache or the one after so maybe someone spotted it and decided to add their name.

The Return 8

 Hiding lower in a tree this time, not as easy to spot as it's tucked away but still an easy find!

Reaching Dell Quay and it was quite a nice view, not so much the smell though. It was a very sunny day and seemed to be hotter than when we set off. Very nice place that I haven't visited before, we plan to park up here when we continue the caches.

The Return 9

 Last for the day but not least! Hidden in a overgrowth behind a post, tucked away and probably the most well hidden cache so far. 

 #9 is located right by this pub, The Crown & Anchor. It looked lovely inside but we already had dinner plans so sadly didn't go inside. It was such a beautiful day with no breeze and the view from the pub was great! The seats outside looked like they had an even better view but if you plan on stopping by and it's not very nice weather you'd still get a great view inside. (Slightly expensive with cod and chips costing £14 but I bet it taste great!)

 We headed back to the Marina after 9 and then went and enjoyed a nice Indian, where we also ate on our date. We ended up walking for 56 minutes one way and that was 3.7km - 2.2 miles but Lewis turned of the GPS so the total distance would be an average of 3 miles as we walked a shorter footpath back! The first photo was taken at half past 2 and the last video was shot at quarter to 5 so  we were out for 2 hours and 15 minutes. I'd estimate we walked for about an hour and 45 minutes there and back! It was lovely day, with nice and easy caches. They were all small containers so made for nice trades and trackables. Will be nice to finish the series!