It’s Thursday! Summer is really over now: this past Monday was Labor Day, and my teaching job is starting up. But it’s nice to remember the summer through blogging.
Last week I showed the door of an unusual geocache in Germany. That wasn’t my favorite cache of the trip, though. This one was.
The first stage of the geocache was to find a tool and assemble it. This was in its own container, a pole; you didn’t have to supply your own, although some hard-core geocachers drive around with various things like this in their cars. But even if we were that crazy, it wouldn’t have fit in our luggage!
My husband gave it a try first:
The pole had threads on one end, and the bottom of the birdhouse had an opening that you could fit the pole into, and screw it in to tighten it.
Once I had the pole attached, the bottom of the birdhouse cache came off pretty easily, and could be lowered to the ground, where you can finally see the door (the only door in this post):
And then there’s getting the whole thing back up there again:
I have hidden a few geocaches around my neighborhood but nothing like this. It amazes me the ideas people come up with.
Thursday Doors is a weekly feature allowing door lovers to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos from around the world. Feel free to join in on the fun by creating your own Thursday Doors post and then sharing it, between Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American Eastern Time), on the linky list at Norm 2.0’s blog.
Follow my European trip with this and previous posts:
August 30, 2018: Achtung, Baby!
That is so cool! Now I want to build a puzzle geocache! My artist mother would have loved the idea too….
LikeLiked by 1 person
There are some others that even more cool. I’ve made a couple of music puzzle caches where I played the coordinates as the notes of a scale on the viola.
LikeLiked by 1 person
You really must love geocoaching:):) Have a great teaching year!
LikeLiked by 1 person
That’s funny. I think my husband would say he loves it more than I do (I would say that as well). He has found >25,000 geocaches. But I do it in my own way. For me it’s more about the journey and the process than the number of finds. I like to highlight interesting and unusual caches and I think it’s a great way to get to know a place.
LikeLike
Wow some people really want to make you work for it 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, that’s part of the “fun”! 😃
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hi Karen – … but I too would be dumbfounded if I came across something like this … they must have been 7 foot beanpoles putting it up there … well done and for find a different door – cheers and enjoy school – Hilary
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yeah, I was proud of myself for figuring this out. There were some hints in the description but I still don’t know how people come up with some of these ideas!
LikeLike