Permission to hide crap, sir?

Did you know that some organisations actually give permission for geocaches to be hidden on their property?

Some of them are well-known charities, or local councils who are supposedly working in the public's interest; they are guardians of historic properties, archeologically important areas, areas of special scientific interest, wildlife preservations areas....

Most of the landowners have been persuaded to agree to this after assurances from certain geocachers that all other geocachers will follow certain rules.
How they will enforce this is not clear.

The list of organisations includes: (ref here )
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Milton Keynes Parks Trust
National Trust
Denbighshire County Council
Countryside Council of Wales
Amesbury Town Council, Wiltshire
Swindon Ranger Service
North Wiltshire District
South East England Forestry Commission
Wiltshire County Council
Hampshire County Council
Cheshire County Council
Warwickshire County Council
The Woodland Trust
New Forest - Forestry Commission

Some details:

Warwickshire County Council
Sally Silk
Country Parks Visitor Manager
Countryside Recreation
Tel: 01827 872660; Fax: 01827 875161
sallysilk@warwickshire.gov.uk

Wiltshire County Council
"blanket approval provided that cachers follow the GAGB guidelines..."
mentioned specifically are: Woodhenge, Figsbury Rings, Westbury White Horse, Ridgeway

Shropshire Wildlife Trust

"...trial trial basis only, starting from 1st September 2004.

Jan Mckelvey
Conservation Manager
Shropshire Wildlife Trust
Tel 01743 284280
Fax 01743 284281
www.shropshirewildlifetrust.org.uk
janmckelvey@shropshirewt.cix.co.uk"

Three easy caches today

On my travels today I went for a couple of detours to find a group of three caches.
Two of these I have actually taken before, one was in exactly the same place so was really easy.

Cachers usually try to rationalise the disappearance of caches, blaming over-zealous farmers or innocent tourists. Well they're right in thinking it's someone collecting rubbish...

One missing cache can be brushed aside as an accident or fluke... but two? Or three all together at once...?

These are lovely things to find in the countryside, are they not:

Autumn summary

Most of the summer I have been travelling far and near, and taking cache information with me whenever I have the opportunity.

I've lost count of the number of caches I have taken; it must be close to 15 since May. All have been in a shocking condition - I will never understand the attraction of these people whose main aim is to seek out these disgusting things for their own sake. It just reinforces my opinion that if geocaching as a hobby must exist, surely virtual caches are the way to go.

In all instances the contents have been mouldy, sweaty, rusty, cracked, faded, perished, unhealthy, SMELLY, unattractive pieces of rubbish.

How appropriate (not to mention convenient) that often caches come wrapped in bin bags.

Some of my pics:
Peeping out of the undergrowth, this was one of a series of caches:


From under a rock:


A quick one (hardly worth it!):