All Basins, Docks, Piers and Wharves Logs
Nick & Ali played Basins, Docks, Piers and Wharves on 8/17/2011
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Found today on what turned out to be a 12 mile walk.
Should have done this one by bike. Really enjoyed the walk, but was a bit foot sore by the end. If I had brought my swimming trunks, the final bit would have been shorter by 1/2 a mile.
According to the Wherigo it took 112 minutes (including a meal break).
Thanks for a very interesting cache - which I'll make a favourite,
Nick (& Ali who is still working)
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Dostio played Basins, Docks, Piers and Wharves on 8/12/2011
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Last day from our 5 day vacation in London. Having a few hours left before the eurostar get's us back home, ideal to walk this wherigo.
Having logged "Maritim Greenwich" from Master Mariner before, we know what to expect.
This time, it's the whole family, Me, my wife, The poké, Titan and good old Colorado.
We already passed the docklands several times by DLR so we looked forward to walk thru it.
First choise, N - E - S - W , we took the North route direction Docklands
Very nice, long and interesting route. Good there was a MacDonalds halfway to have a break.
Lunchtime in the Docklands, I have never ever seen so many suits as today, lot's of important men work here
Thanks Master Mariner for showing is Greenwich and the Docklands.
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2MMs played Basins, Docks, Piers and Wharves on 5/24/2011
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Having read the previous logs on this quest we came prepared for a more extensive tour of the area than we have been used to.With the time at 10.30am and the Oregon showing a strong signal,we set off for the start from the nearest bus stop.Although the actual start location was easily identified,it took a lot of wandering about and faffing around to get the menu to display the next bit of information.Then,as if by magic we were presented with some choices.We picked a direction that seemed to suit our geocaching name and were soon directed to the first of many zones.An interesting place that has been entirely taken over by modern development.Next we were off to one of the best waterside views of Canary Wharf available.This section of the walk was superb in every respect.Following the zones was a straightforward task,all appeared when expected and were easy to follow.We eventually found ourselves in a favourite caching area where we took a short coffee break.Then,onward until we were presented with the actual cache zone.At this point,there was just a sneaking suspicion that we were headed for an area that just might turn up the difficulty and grief level a notch.That turned out to very much be the case and we reached a point where almost in unison we exclaimed "Oh no,how the.....!
So glad I brought the A-Z now and we stood for a few minutes working out a cunning plan.The noise from yet more local development raised the agravation factor tenfold but the prospect of being within a few hundred feet of the cache drove us on.A determined grimace and a quick stop to inspect a very different type of welding job beside the water and we counted the feet down whilst looking for the spoiler photo object.Around a corner,and there it was,brilliant.Sat and signed the log in the sunshine,feeling a great sense of achievement.This cartidge ran extremely well and we were credited with a completion time of 136mins,and that included the coffee break.The only thing we felt this great walk might benefit from was perhaps to have some more text information in the zones.Whilst the waterside views and other parts needed no such support,there were some locations where the zone name changed and that was it.We enjoyed this Wherigo which is very good but would perhaps be even better with some further development.
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G.O. Cash played Basins, Docks, Piers and Wharves on 2/8/2011
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Only my third attempt at wherigo; again with my Bluetooth GPS receiver/ HP Windows Mobile handheld combo. The cartridge played without a hitch. I completed most of the round in the pleasant company of Insp. Gadget, who had a Garmin Oregon. I noticed that the Oregon picked up the zones quite a bit earlier than my equipment, but other than that, the experience on the Oregon seems to be similar compared to my Pocket PC device.
Started out on a bright sunny day with fifinella and our kids, and ran into Insp. Gadget not too far from the starting point. He proceeded to the first zone on his bike while we continued to the third zone. Insp. Gadget caught up with us again later between zone 3 and 4, and to my pleasant surprise decided to dismount and continue with us on foot. I think we must have been assigned one of the longer routes; the kids got tired after a while and let the Insp. and me carry on without them at a point close to our home.
I'm well familiar with the area, which clearly helped find the way along the various zones. At the final, the container was quickly found, and we were happy to sign the blank log. Thanks for the cache & wherigo!
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