Jimmy is back ! :-) The original singing Jimmy Cricket is back, so there are now two caches for you to find here: one from the lat/lon above - which has the camera - and the other by listening somewhere within 100 yards of this position :-) You will not need all those complicated clues below. The old text follows....
The Jimmy Cricket cache is the second one that we would
not describe as "easy" - deliberately. All our early
caches were intended as an introduction to someone
trying Geocaching for the first time. Now we can
concentrate on making them just a little more "interesting"
- although some may differ on this :-)
We have made this one a little easier to locate by
the fact that you can hear it. If you get within a few yards
you should be able to hear it chirping. I'll start with
giving a 3-star rating - but adjust this according
to people's experience. The nominal location of
N 51° 26.000 W 000° 43.000 is just to help you
"find the pub" :-)
The main clues for this cache are in the pictures and
the few words here. You will know when you are within
fifty yards of the cache by the name of the pub.
You will probably get your hands dirty getting at the
cache - which is burried, but you will not need to
go digging. Just find the cricket - he is securely
bolted to a sheet of wood covering the white plastic
box with the usual "goodies" including fluffy toys, etc.
The position is within sight of those inside the pub
and/or the garden (don't want to give you too many clues),
so you creeping around looking and listening for Jimmy Cricket should
give them a little entertainment. Neil and Fran pictured
behind the bar saw me plant it, and have been advised
to charge a surcharge - rather than discount - to geocachers
who need to cheat to find the cache :-)
Regardless of how you accurately locate the cache, here
is your data:
The Cricket cache is exactly 6.073 kilometres from the
Windsor Great Park cache,
5.323 kilometres from the
Victory Field cache,
and
4.795 kilometres from Roebuck Pub used as the start point for the
Tweetiepie cache.
If you calculate this as a lat/lon, remember to work in WGS85
and not OSGB. Less sophisticated approaches include cotton and
pins on a 1:50,000 Ordnance Survey Landranger map (175 Reading, Windsor).
Remember the lat/lon graticule around the edge is NOT WGS84, but the
grid is in kilometres. Hopefully none of this will be needed
- other than to get a rough location, if your GPS can display
distance to these waypoints
- or your hearing is better than mine :-)
You will find more Lovelock caches on www.gpss.co.uk/geocache If you wish to contact Robin and want a reply, please email him direct on gpss@compuserve.com If you do this through a geocaching web site, please make sure you include your email address. Robin regrets that he may not reply to those who seek to hide who they are. Please include at least your name and email address.