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Day #308 – Dengie Smörgåsbord

Trad: 6 Multi: 3 Puzzle: 2
Walked: 5.9 miles

I was back on the Dengie Peninsula again today (there are plenty more caches to tackle in the area), picking up a mixture of Church Micros, puzzles, village signs and any other random caches I was passing.

Burnham On Crouch Sign
Burnham On Crouch Sign

I finally rounded up enough information to finish off the Multi Church Micro at Mundon (which requires five other specific CM finds before you can work out the co-ords). The weather wasn’t up to much, but I did pass the famously spooky petrified Mundon Oaks.

Moody Mundon Oaks
Moody Mundon Oaks

On the way home I stopped for a quick cache and dash at the festive Happy Christmas hide. I liked the idea here!

Happy Christmas?!
Happy Christmas?!

I had also crunched the numbers for the final Bolting Round Ulting Bonus cache, which was a great big box hidden in a great big tree!

Bolting Round Ulting Bonus
Bolting Round Ulting Bonus

The cache is a D3, so it was the perfect place to leave this geocoin I picked up a day or two ago – which wants to visit D3 or higher caches. This one also gets plenty of visitors, so hopefully the coin won’t stay in the box for too long.

Leaving A Trackable
Leaving A Trackable
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Day #304 – Bolting Round Ulting Again

Trad: 7
Walked: 2.9 miles

When Peverel Blue’s series, Bolting Round Ulting first came out, I decided to do them piecemeal as fillers to keep my geostreak going. But since starting with the first few, plenty more local caches have been published closer to home.

Today I decided to go and collect the remaining 7 trads and their information so I could calculate where the big bonus was hiding.

Past The Orchard
Past The Orchard

Where are you? Ah, there!

Peekaboo!
Peekaboo!

No. 5 was a nice Letterbox pot, I even remembered to take along my own Smiley Stamp to mark up the logbook.

Stamped Up
Stamped Up

After a slightly wrong detour for No. 9, I eventually got the this view of the lake (and found the cache!). One more to collect on the way back to the car and I called it a day there. The calculation for the bonus is a bit involved and I thought it was better to do it at home so I didn’t get it wrong!

Mono Lake (Not Quite Ansel Adams)
Mono Lake (Not Quite Ansel Adams)

It’s good to have most of this series put to bed now, it was a lovely little walk.

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Day #194 – Ulting No. 11

Trad: 1
Walked: 0.5 miles

Thankfully I had a better night’s sleep last night than the night before, so I set off relatively early for the cache expedition today. Still just a quick cache and dash for a pathetic half mile walked as the lurgy hasn’t quite gone yet. This time the target was Bolting Round Ulting No. 11.

Under A Log, You Say?
Under A Log, You Say?
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Day #193 – Ulting No. 2

Trad: 1
Walked: 1.0 miles

I just had the energy to go out to buy some more cough mixture, flu meds and teabags. Thankfully the Bolting Round Ulting series is good for a quick cache and dash, so I also stopped off and picked up No. 2.

Ulting Sign
Ulting Sign

Job done for today. I wished I felt better enough to have a decent walk. Maybe at the weekend…

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Day #170 – Bolting To Ulting

Trad: 1
Walked: 2.4 miles

I had to wait in at home this morning for a parcel to be delivered, which was driving me nuts as the sun was out and I was itching to go out and play.

Eventually it arrived (containing a new camera – whoop!) so I headed to Ulting to take some photos along the canal and make a start on Peverel Blue’s Bolting Round Ulting ring. I’m doing them one by one rather than the whole lot at once. That way I get to keep my geostreak going for even longer, I need to eke out as many unfound caches as possible close to home!

The View From The Cache
The View From The Cache

As usual with a series plus bonus, I forgot to take note of the information for the bonus cache. But since I’ll be back here a few times, I hope I’ll remember to pick it up another time.

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Day #46 – Ultimate Ulting

Trad: 1
Walked: 2.7 miles

10th September 2015
10th September 2015

I hand’t realised that there was a new(ish) Church Micro at Ulting until recently. I love the little church by the Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation, it’s one of my favourite locations in Essex. The Church Micro is a little bit away from the actual church due to the proximity of a much older existing cache, Red Indian Church (my 17th find way back in October 2008!)

Even though I didn’t need to, I still took a wander down the driveway and spent a lovely tranquil few minutes wandering around in the churchyard.

All Saints, Ulting
All Saints, Ulting