Ancient Artefacts
Ancient Artefacts (GCKQ76) by GeoMonkeys has been a geocache which had – until today, irritated and stumped us.
Our history with visiting this cache goes back to October 19th when we were still new to the hobby of geocaching. That first attempt was a steep learning curve in cache hunting. We searched high and low, discovered our GPS receivers aren’t always handy in some locations, and was the first time we were bitten by leeches – and gave up after an hour of searching.
In December the quest for Ancient Artifacts took on a new urgency as part of a larger goal to reveal the location of Catch the Cuckoo. TeamWolfie had information which lead us to believe the last of four treasured Cuckoo Eggs was hidden at the Ancient Artifacts cache – the fourth egg being our final key needed to reveal the much sought-after location of the Cuckoo.
Having had a new more caches under our belt and a more developed “geo-sense” we returned with confidence on December 13, only to leave again empty handed and with bloodstained socks from our leech feeding session. It turns out on this occasion Wolfie Guy was almost on top of the cache, but Wolfie Ben was convinced his teammate was barking up the wrong tree, and encouraged him to look elsewhere – thus ruining the team’s chances of finding the cache on this attempt.
On December 14 we returned yet again to follow up on some hunches we’d had overnight while thinking about the cache. Again no luck.
We were contacted by the owner of the cache, a Mr Pesky GeoMonkey, who offered us a little advice via email. The instructions made perfect sense, so we returned to the ruins of Ancient Artifacts again this morning at 8am with some new information at hand, and found the cache almost immediately.
Being so caught up in the moment, and fighting off an imminent leech attack we rushed the process, wrote down the vital Cuckoo clue, quickly signed the log, swapped a Sheep’s head for a sachet of Aloe skin cream (for our leech bites) – but we totally forgot to take our trademark “Wolfie” photograph of the area.
We were out of there quick – we had a Cuckoo to Catch.
Tags: bugs, bush reserve, medium-cache, mysterious
Caches Found | Wolfie Ben | 
December 28, 2008 8:03 pm
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