PG rated caches?
The second week of Easter holiday, we’re all at home, far away from work and school. This could lead to some caching extravaganza, but it isn’t.
The WE started promising though. Whilst my daughter went to birthday party, the son and I tackled some caches:
- Spiegeltje/LittleMirror GCHMXB is a very well worked out cache where one needs to read the coordinates for the cache with a mirror. My eyes don’t seem to be as they used to be since I couldn’t read the East coordinates. I could call the author, but I misinterpreted his instructions, so I had to call him for a second time.
- De Verdwaalde Prins GCZCGE and The Stone GC1N3NE are located in the same ‘Walenbos’, a zero managed wood where one likes to investigate how nature takes things over. This make finding a way to the caches a bit more difficult since the theoretical paths on my topo map are overgrown in reality.
Easter Monday supposed to be last day with good weather, so we decided to go for a walk in a sanctuary. Before that I decided to tackle two cache without a GPS:
- Hageland midpoint GCJ3NF where one needs to determine the midpoint between cities. I’m not good at maths and trigonometry so after spending hours finding a spot that might be suitable, I asked somewhat confirmation. Locally I had find the correct access road and after some while I could find the cash, based on the provided hints.
- WetenStappen / K.U.Leuven GC1JP00 was also a difficult one. After I observed what the ground at 17 panels in the city looked like – which took me tree attempts – I came out with coordinates which evince didn’t agree on. I could only use the same method as I did before with a cache in that neighbourhood. I found it finally after an hour.
At the sanctuary I couldn’t resist to tackle Gerhagen S&T GC16932 and we finished off with an ice cream at an abbey nearby. Since we had some time left, we tackled Rondje Scherp-Zichem 28: Brievenbus GC1D2BD near a very special letter box at the home of a local ornamental metalworker called René Huybrechts:
I’m not sure, but I think he also made the letterbox of the bakery nearby:
No, this isn’t a PG rated cache and no, we aren’t a bunch of perverts over here. This might seem a bit strange to you indeed, but we have a saying in Flanders: ‘Van korstjes krijg je borstjes’. Literal translated it comes to: ‘You get a bust/busty from crusts’. This might seems even more odd, but if you have children, you might recognize the phenomena that children often don’t eat the crusts of their piecie / sandwich. One tends to say then to the kids that one won’t get a chest (that is for girls only of course). Hence the post box at the bakery.
