2016-10-30 51 4

Location

Ackerdijkse plassen nature reserve in Oude Leede.

Participants

FelixTheCat (talk)
Palmpje

Expedition

FelixTheCat

After my failed expedition earlier today I decided to also go for this one, a bit nearer to home. I got on my bike around 17:30, hoping to get there before dark. The sun had pretty much set by the time I reached the nature reserve, so I had to hurry up as it officially closes at sunset. Alas, it was no use anyway: most of the reserve is a no-go area to protect the birds and other animals living there, so again I could not reach the hash. With the sun gone, there was not much left to see so I got back on my bike and went home again.

Palmpje

At first this one looked promising as there appeared to be a path to almost the cache. But alas, this is a protected nature area so I knew beforehand that I would not be able to reach the hash. But there was a geocache nearby that I wanted to log so I went out anyway. First I walked along the Berkelsche Zweth to find that cache. Funny with the nature reserve at the right and the Rotterdam skyline on the left. And in between Rotterdam Airport with planes taking off making quite some noise.

After finding the cache GCGQE2 I moved the hash-carriage a bit and walked to the bird-lookout that overviews the hashpoint. About 2 hours before Felix was there I logged the cache located in the lookout and walked to another lookout point a tower this time (why did I not take a picture?). After logging the cache in that lookout I drove to Delft to log two more puzzle caches and in the dark I returned to my home graticule 52, 4

Photos

FelixTheCat

The Sun setting over Delft. Happens an hour earlier than last week due to the DST switch this weekend.
A view of the nature reserve, looking towards Rotterdam.
No, that's not the sun setting. These are the bright lights used in greenhouses to stimulate plant growth outside daylight hours.
200 metres to go. Failed again!
Lloyd looking out over the fields.

Palmpje

Trying to get a picture of the distance to the hash -> Failure!
The hashpoint is in front of that line of trees
View from the tower to the north of the hashpoint, the point is to the left of that ugly bright spot in the middle.
No access
Although they were allowed entry.