FTF

With WW2 needing to stay at home today to get on with work, last night I was working out where I would go and I saw that this one had still not been attempted. I had done Amberel's similar cache Isabella last year and enjoyed that, so decided that today I would combine this cache with some of the nearby puzzles that I'd solved.

Parked the car at 8.30 am on a grey morning and set off. All went well until stage 7 when I found the feature I needed, but all my inputs were rejected. So a PAF was needed and Amberel gave me the information I needed. I checked again but got not see this anywhere, so took some photos. Another stage shortly after that was the only one that it took some time to find the information,. and then al;l went well until the final web page question when another PAF to the owner was needed. That one was definitely a problem with the web page and has now been corrected.

The successful input to the final web page gave me the coordinates of the final location, some hints, and a photo, so after 2.5 hrs I approached GZ pleased that it looked like it was going to take less than the 3-4 hours that Amberel suggested. However, as the cache page says the final is in some dense vegetation and the GPS signal soon deteriorated and soon became virtually useless. But as I said, Amberel had given some helpful hints - but there seemed to me a number of items that matched the hints and with a useless GPS I couldn't work out which was the one I wanted.

During this time Amberel had been sitting at home tracking my progress (after my first PAF he knew it was me going round),. as he got notified whenever a new webpage was requested from his server., and I received a phone call to fined out how I was getting on. I had to exit the dense vegetation though before I could actually talk to him and let him know how it was going. Back into the bushes again with a bit of extra information and a lot more searching. Time flies and another phone call, so I have to exit the bushes again. I think by now Amberel felt sorry for me and he says he will get on his motorbike and ride over - a 20 minute journey. At that point a lot of walkers passed by so my return into the bushes was delayed until they passed by (fortunately my exits had not coincided with muggles passing by).

I continued my search and in what seemed no time at all I heard the noises of someone approaching. Amberel soon appreciated my problems with multiple features that matched his hints, but soon saw the one I needed. With that resolved that cache was soon located in a place I thought I had checked at least once, but with lots of similar features around It was hard to work out which matched the photo on the last web page. So a blank log was signed at 12:23, still inside the upper end of Amberel's suggested time for this cache, although if he had not come out to help me I'm sure it would have taken longer.

We took some further GPS readings and Amberel looked for other hints to add to that final web page. Thanks Andy for coming to my rescue - I think I would have found it eventually but you saved me some time. A very enjoyable cache - just a shame that it had been a grey day because I've been here many time before and it is even better on a bright sunny day.

TNLN TFTC