Life in a nutshell, 'cos it's better if you're nuts!
This website is being gradually wound down. You can find the blog posts about geocaching gradually reappearing at mkgees.uk
Interactive Cache Maps
Since Christmas I have been trying to gradually improve this website. One solution I was searching for was a way of displaying an interactive cache maps of my finds on a particular day. I found a solution, and I think it’s good enough to write about. Why not?
20 Questions
A certain local geocaching blogger asked me if I’d like to answer a short quiz about geocaching.
Minions Part 2
Having done the top half of the Minions a couple of weeks ago I thought I better go do the rest. After my first trip to the Minions around I had 38 left to do.
Minions Part 1
My first major trip out since the COVID lockdown, with the prospect of a major caching exercise on the radar. The chosen location was over to the east of Biggleswade for the One in a Minion series of puzzles. The form here is that it’s a bit of geoart that draws a Minion.
Oceania and Asia
Trying to rediscover the mysterious mojo after a very long period of not going geocaching.
Heal the World
Doing the “Heal the World” series of puzzle geocaches at Hadstock in Essex with the Happy Hunter.
More Garmin Icons
Work with Basecamp and Memory-Map brought me back to the Garmin Montana. I planned to build more garmin icons to highlight certain cache types.
Back to Basecamp
I went back to Basecamp to see if I could figure out how to use custom icons. It wasn’t so difficult.
Memory-Map
There are a few things I don’t like about Garmin’s Basecamp, so I decided to dabble with MemoryMap.
Long Way Home
Google said we had 870km of driving in front of us to reach Calais, and then another 180km in England.
Vizille
A grand aristocratic country house which has been converted into a museum celebrating the Revolution.
Bastille
You can’t beat a fortress on top of a mountain. That’s why they built them there. Grenoble’s one is great.