Chester has been out
on many cache hunts with us and has rather got to enjoy this
pastime, so much so that he now recognises our GPSr and gets
excited on seeing it. Recently he has been asking if we could help
him create some caches of his own, so of course we agreed as he is
not too good at this internet thingy (and if the truth be known he
is only really any good at three things, walkeeees, spotting
squirrels and burying bones, but don't tell him I told you that).
He said that he would like them to be located in some of his
favourite types of places that his doggie friends would like and
suggested that one in each of the Oxford City Parks would be a good
place. Foolishly we agreed to this before checking out how many
parks Oxford actually has, and to our surprise their is eighteen of
them. I hope you all enjoy this series of eighteen caches, and do
post some picies for Chester, especially if you have one of his
canine friends with you.
Blackbird
Leys Park
This is a large park
with several football pitches. Near Cuddesdon Way there is a tarmac
mini-skate facility with a quarter pipe ramp, rails and box as well
as goals for roller hockey. There are two children's play areas,
one off Pegasus Road, and the other off Cuddesdon Way.
This may not be one of
Oxfords most spectacular (that's a big word for a dog!) parks but
it is my favourite as it is close to my home and I have sniffed
every little nook and cranny and know it like the back of my paw. I
spend a lot of time here so if you do see me please do come and say
hello, I may look (and occasionally sound) a bit vicious but I'm
really a big softie and just get a bit excited if I see a new
friend. Enough about me how about this cache. If you go to the
start location you will find some writing followed by the
numbers 129. Convert the letters in this word in the usual way
(i.e. A=1, M=3 etc.) and for any two digit numbers just use the
second digit, the answer will be in the format ABCDEF. Now
transpose the numbers into the final location below and you
should be able to sniff the cache out without too much
problem, mind that no muggles see you though.
N51 43.A(B-D)(E+A)
W001 11.(A+C)E(F-D)
Chester has hidden a
Bone'us cache full of special doggy treats for all those cacher's
who have managed to complete his COPQ series. To find this cache
you will need to collect the letters on the lids or log
sheet of all the COPQ caches, and use them to work out the
start location for
Chester's Bone'us. Be warned, you will have to go for Chester's
favourite type of walkieeees to complete it; a long one.
The cache contains a log
sheet and pen and no room for swaps, it has a screw lid with tamper
evident seal which the FTF will have to break.
As my employer has decided that it would be a good idea to
move the whole organisation to Bristol, the Phillimore's (Mad H@ter
and Muddy Legs) will be moving on to pastures new and some fresh
caches. Unfortunately this will mean that it will become difficult
for us to maintain our Oxfordshire caches, so we will therefore be
gradually archiving the majority of them. We shall start our
program of collecting the caches and archiving them in the new
year, but as we have one or two caches out there this will not be a
five minute program! If you would particularly like to find this
cache before it is archived please get in touch and we will try and
hold off archiving it.