cache removed for maintenance, and a rethink. I've archived the frog listing !

As usual I left it until far too soon before setting off before thnking about puzzle caches at my destination. Not as usual, I had got an hour or so, and got the puzzle worked out in time.

I was lucky in very quickly happening on a clue to what the puzzle is about. A couple of targeted searches yielded promising results and I soon had a set of coordinates that pointed to a very likely spot.

Sadly, the checker said ‘no’! Hm, looks like Sir Terry needs listenimg rather than looking. I did some listening. It didn’t help much, but gave me a couple of (rather tortuous) alternatives. Both wrong.

Next bit of listening would take a while. When does my bus leave? Too soon. I confess to resorting to a bit of guessing. Bingo! The checker says ‘yes’. Pop the answer in the GPSr, and to the bus stop with several minutes to spare.

Once off the bus I walked to GZ. The windchill factor was strong and I was well wrapped up against the cold. In fact the actual find took only a minute. The coordinates are spot on.

I signed the log well away from GZ, and popped the cache back as found.

Thanks for a nicely judged puzzle, for introducing me to some new nerdy heroes to add to my own collection, and for the cache! It would have a recommendation star if I had any to give.

I think my brain is lost in space and in a spin most of the time! Luckily the CO came to my rescue after my DNFs and gave more detailed instructions on where to find the cache, which led a a quick find todayI had been within inches before but must have just missed it in my haste not to look suspicious in such a busy location!

Great puzzlethanks!

It’s probably about time I logged a DNF on this one... I’ve had about four extremely brief looks  (due to my wimpiness searching in busy locations) but haven’t managed to get my hands on the cacheI did enjoy the puzzle thoughand I’m often passing here - so will hopefully get there in the end

Well, apologies to both cachers who struggled with the hide, entirely the fault of my confused co-ordinates

I have visited GZ , averaged the GPS reading, amended the images and added a little extra information for one particular digit which caused problems. I've also added the native O.C. checker , which is now working properly, thanks to the speedy attention of the O.C. team, thanks Andy & co .

A FTF for us, such a rare treat. After checking our co-ords with the CO we had one number wrong as we hadn't taken enough notice of the instructions, but that was soon rectified and off we went. Mr H soon put his hands on the cache, the log was signed and everything replaced as found. Thanks hal an tow for placing the cache.