(In addition to my earlier log.) Insertcure and I having not fully read all the logs for this cache set out to do this cache one sunny Sunday afternoon after tracking down the Saboteur (and having spent Friday night cracking both of these, Insertcure finally had the ah-ha moment with the puzzle and we quickly realised this would be another cache where we'd need a laptop in the field. Since neither of us have a tablet or similar device and no inclination to try a more low tech approach). 

At 4pm we started off towards the first stage and with this in hand we wondered if we might have time to find some 'boring caches' before dinner. How wrong we were. At the amazonian location the gps was little or no help, and after trying the alternative I finally pursuaded IC to leave the rucksacks up against a tree for retrieval later. Here it was a case of just wade and see, and after a few hours we had worked out where we were, in seemingly uncharted territory and managed to find what we needed. Though this was really down to me keeping saying... 'how about we just explore a bit further', or 'that looks interesting lets go that way for a bit'. I had the benefit of a long stick & rubber shoes while IC was barefoot and holding his phone in one hand. There were arguments about which location we were at (the gps had no idea) but I'm glad to say I won them all! From then on it was plain sailing apart that we ended up trying to find a brass needle in a woodland at 10pm, we managed to ignore all advice concerning going too far and/or squeezing and I wondered at one point if I would need to call for an ambulance to retrieve Insertcure from a very tight place he'd got himself into. But finally the driver was tracked down and only 2 or 3 hours after I started to hope we would find it soon. 

Its never the case I wish an abanazar took less time to find, but next time I'll make sure I'm well prepared with an emergency dinner when I set out in search of a cache. It was epic, I loved every minute, but most of the words which came out of my mouth for the last 120 were some version of 'I'm hungry' or worse still 'shall we give up and finish it in the week'



How all field puzzles should be solved - while still ankle deep