Tweetiepie

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Hidden On: 23 Oct 2001
Waypoint (Landmark): N000E3
Open Cache:  Unrestricted
Cache type:  Normal
Cache size:   Normal

Difficulty:  (easy)
Terrain:  (easy)

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Robin was with Team Sapper, visiting the UK. Tweetypie had fallen down, so we hung him back up again :-)

Decided to have a 100% NaviCaching day today, and this was the first. Parked near the pub at Egham Wick and strolled down past the Totem Pole (having already done the nearby cache about a year ago.

This was a very quick find because Tweety Pie was in view. The box was buried in the compost, with just Tweetie Pie showing. I realise now that he must once again have been moved by one of the several people who have signed the log since Robin and June's maintenance visit on Christmas Eve. This wasn't apparent to me while I was at the cache, so I replaced it as I found it, sorry.

The frequent logging of the cache by muggles continues. I feel that this cache must be unique in that it is found so many times by non-cachers and yet remains unscathed (other than being moved :-) ). Some of the logs by non-cachers put mine to shame - I usually do no more than sign my (caching) name, keeping the details for the online log. And yet the lack of online logs by those who accidentally find the cache suggests few, if any, ever visit the site or take up the game.

Thanks for an interesting cache,

Rgds, Andy

Robin, June, Michelle and Hammond-Hamster checked Tweetypie and saw that he was nicely hidden away. We took some piccys and these have been added above. We also added a few small items to the cache, including a chess piece, Babs from Chicken-Run, a very small pair of dutch cloggs, and a fluffy little koala bear. After Hammond and read the log book - see photo, tweetypie was put back in his proper place on the box lid, and the box put back - hung up on the hook especially put there for the purpose. Many Thanks to all the accidental finders who wrote in the log book. Happy geocaching ! :-)

Many Thanks Sandvika for all this hard work, adding logs for the accidental finders. That piccy of your find makes me think that the box is now visible. Is it ? It should be hung on a hook, out of sight. If it is visible, June and I will visit again. Many Thanks again. Robin.

Found with Sandvika & his boys, got a shock to find lots of logs as people have just stumbled on it. So Sandvika to lots of pics as prove. TFTC
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Well, what a remarkable find Tweetiepie turned out to be. I suppose his hiding place is alluring and that's what has brought so many muggles to find him. Reading the log book was really quite special and I thought it would be fabulous to share all these chance discoveries with Robin and June and anyone else who decides to take a look here on Navicache. Thus I spent quite a while photographing the pages of the log book at the cache site and then uploading them all. I think we missed one or two pages that might have been stuck together.

We were caching with Heffalump007 and it was he who ventured further from GZ to find Tweetiepie where he expected to find him, whereas I was clambering amongst the rhododendrons, since we had left the listing behind.

It would be a shame to update the coordinates for this cache which are indeed about 30 to 40 metres out, since if muggles can find it by chance, surely cachers can find it by intent.

Altogether a very memorable cache since so many people have entered the spirit of caching by trading items and writing in the log. However, many of the items referred to as left in the cache are not there so perhaps there are other visitors who are more inclined to help themselves and not leave a log. At least they have left the cache and I suppose the enthusiastic writings of others leaves them with a moral obligation not to spoil it.

Thanks for the cache. NC#16, Total#671


[Modified 2008-12-19 16:48:44]

  Sharky and penguin you know where
  A very dark sunset returning to Blacknest Gate

Finds from 30/8/08 and 5/10/08 - see photo attached

  30/8/08 and 5/10/08

Finds 7/7/08 and 8/7/08 - see photo attached


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  7/7/08 and 8/7/08

Finds 1/6/08 and 3/7/08 - see photo attached

  1/6/08 and 3/7/08

Find 2/6/08 - see photo attached

  2/6/08

Find 1/6/08 - see photo attached

  1/6/08

2 x Finds on 31/5/08 - see photo attached


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  31/5/08

Finds 22/5/08 and 23/5/08 - see photo attached

  22/5/08 and 23/5/08

Find 21/5/08 - see photo attached

  21/5/08

Finds from 7/5/08 and 17/5/08 - see photo attached

  7/5/08 and 17/5/08

Finds from 4/5/08 and 6/5/08 - see photo attached


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  4/5/08 and 6/5/08

Finds from 25/4/08 and 26/4/08 - see photo attached

  25/4/08 and 26/4/08

Finds from 16/4/08 and 17/4/08 - see photo attached
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  16/4/08 and 17/4/08

Find from 15/4/08 - see photo attached

  15/4/08

Find on 24/3/08 - See photo attached

  24/3/08

Find on 17/2/08 - see photo attached

  17/2/08

Finds from 28/12/07 and 11/2/08 - see photo attached


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  28/12/07 and 11/2/08

Finds from 20/9/07 and 20/12/07 - see photo attached

  20/9/07 and 20/12/07

Was just contacted by an "accidental" finder, showing a student some of the more unusual trees. Sounds like he entered into the spirit of the game, putting something into the log book and adding a tennis ball :-)

Finds from 25/7/07, 9/8/07, 4/9/07 and 6/9/07 - see photo attached


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  25/7/07, 9/8/07, 4/9/07 and 6/9/07

Finds from 5/7/07 - see photo attached


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  5/7/07

Finds from 9/4/07 and 18/4/07 - see photo attached


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  9/4/07 and 18/4/07

Finds from 6/4/07 and 8/4/07 - see photo attached

[Modified 2008-12-19 16:57:35]

  6/4/07 and 8/4/07

Finds from 31/3/07 and 5/4/07 photo attached


[Modified 2008-12-19 16:58:26]

  31/3/07 and 5/4/07

Entry from 18/3/07 - see photo attached

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  18/3/07

Robin and June check the Tweetypie geocache during a nice walk. What a nice surprise to see two accidental finders who entered into the spirit of the game and filled in the log book. We got there at about 5pm and one of the finds was the same day ! :-)

Robin and June saw this in the paper log book when they checked Tweetypie on Saturday 17th March - I wonder what time they found it ? :-) Must have been about 5pm that we got there.

17 MARCH 07
TWEETYPIE FOUND
BY JADE AND BROOK ALETT
WITH NANNY LOOE.
SWAPPED A TOY SNAKE
FOR 20p, A BLUE PEN
& A FIR CONE.

Robin and June saw this in the paper log book when they checked Tweetypie on Saturday 17th March:

14/03/07 Dominic and Hazel found
it by chance at dusk.
Initially thought it was a trap
so proceeded with caution.

Robin moved Tweetypie to his new, much nicer spot. Sorry for delay :-)

Sadly we can confirm the Tweetypie cache has gone walkies, and so will be replaced by another, complete with printout of old logged visits from all caching sites, very soon. Clues will also be updated to make this a little easier than before and in a spot within 100m of the last.
Robin and June - the cache planters.

Yay! Third time lucky, found it using the same method as Lassitude described below. Wasn't too far from where I had been looking previously, but the keeping a constant 400m technique seems to work a treat!

Found it at 13:20 today. Not easy. Those trees really messed about with the satellite signal to my eMap. The trick is I believe is to go the the 400 metre mark in the open and then circumnavigate, staying at 400 Metres. Even if you do this you can only see this one from a couple of directions. Good luck to all those who follow!!

Robin visited Tweetypie cache on 27 Feb 2002 - and saw that it was still there - and had been visited by a 14 year old who wrote the following entry in the log:

"Cool ! (but confusing)
I camped out in the
woods last night with
my cousin.
Date: 18th Nov 01
Time: 9:00 am
Age: 14
(Didn't leave anything to
put in : sorry !)

Robin took photos of Tweetypie and this log entry
which puts some of us to shame - showing more maturity
in a 14 year old than many who are many times his age :-)

Went back after an earlier trip last month with Rob, and STILL didn't find it. As with Jimmy Cricket, by the pictures I was in the right location. I fairly systematically went through all the undergrowth looking for him, but no luck. Is the cache still there?