today was a beautiful overcast day and i woke up with the intention to find as many of my old DNF logs as possible today! i've been holding ontp a trackable i bought for a few weeks now because i wanted to make a silly little hopscotch keyring to attach to it, because i thought that would be a cute little thing to have and watch how far he can travel! the keyrings arrived on monday and they came out absolutely perfectly, so i attached one to my tracker and decided to send it on it's way today. there is a specific cache i had in mind to drop him off in, but it's a bit out of my way and i wanted to get a bunch of caching done around that area if i was going to be there - so i figured today would be perfect.

so! with the tag activated and set up, i made my way to a letterbox hybrid cache i had always wanted to check out! it's not in my usual circle of cache adventures, and it always sort of freaked me out because it's right on someone's front lawn (presumably, the cache owners) AND it has puzzles involved, so i was always a little worried about how it'd look to loiter around while i tried to solve the puzzles. no need to stress, though - it was quite straightforward in the end. the cache itself was a very cute little mailbox, locked with a code that you had to figure out, and then inside of that was another puzzle box to get to the log itself. it was such a neat little puzzle - the cache said to bring a tool with some kind of attraction, which i figured was a magnet. the puzzle box had numbers and letters on all four sides of it, and after hovering a magnet over each of these numbers, i found one would stick the magnet to it and that would be one of the numbers for the lock. successfully did this for the whole box, unlocked the code and got my little stamp in about 10min! in and out super fast, dropped off my tracker, and went off to my next one.

next one i headed to was a nearby cemetary that i completely forgot existed! what should have been a relatively easy find was a dnf for me once again - i visited that cemetary a very long time ago with my brother when we first got into geocaching, but were unsuccessful then and unfortunately, unsuccessful today. no matter, it was a very lovely walk through the memorial gardens all the same, and i ran into some local wildlife - two bush stone curlews who were very unhappy to see me. next one I headed off to was a very old DNF, another first attempt at geocaching that i never found. fortunately i am older and wiser this time, and with more experience with what exactly a 'devious cache' could mean, i managed to find it from it's sneaky hiding place, way up a tree and disguised in bark. very satisfying to knock that one off my map finally.

and my final one today was in a very hidden away dog park, deep in some bushes. i've tried this one before, but i was going on weekends when the park was full of people and dogs that i just could not avoid. this time, however, it was mostly empty and i managed to sneak over the fence (and slice open my finger in the process, but that's just a given for me really) and start rummaging around in the bushes undetected. managed to snag this one pretty quickly, log it, and get out without anyone even noticing. successful day all up, i would say!