Two Successes and One DNF

Today, I decided that I would first go to a geocache called "A Bridge in Niittykumpu" to find a micro cache under a wooden bridge. I arrived at the location, put my helmet under my scooter seat and my glasses in my backpack. I found easy routes that went under the bridge and I started looking. Time passed, some more passed, even more passed until I had been there for about 20 minutes. I decided that I would use my GPS to find out which side of the bridge the cache was hidden, but it didn't help me at all. I looked again for about 10-15 minutes with no luck. I did see footprints of others who had gone to find the cache but I couldn't find it.

I went to get my sunglasses, and as I was leaving, I realised that one of the ear pieces of the sunglasses had been horribly bent. Snap. My glasses broke. Damn! That means that on this trip I had DNF:d once and broke my sunglasses. Great. That also meant that I had to go back to my house, take a helmet which had a visor to protect my eyes which could not fit in the item compartment in my scooter.

Nevertheless, I decided to go to the next cache. This cache was a pin trading cache where the rule was to leave at least one more pin there than what you take. The cache was located in a peninsula which was very pleasant. I ran into some boy scouts as I was searching for the cache. I eventualy did find the cache without much trouble and I left two HOG Rally 2009 pins and took one KOFF (beer) pin :D. I marked my visit in the logbook and hid the cache the same way it was as I left it. It appeared that someone had been to the cache on the same day as I was there.

The next cache was very close by to the previous one. It was near the Chapel of Otaniemi, where there was about a 1 minute drive from where the previous cache was. I walked up to the chapel, turned on my GPS and inserted the co-ordinates. I first wandered about to the wrong direction thinking that the co-ordinates had to have been wrong, as they seemed to point in a zone that was fenced off. I then knew that the cache had to be behind the chapel building that the cache was said to be near. I walked around the building, looked around abit and low and behold, I saw some blue plastic which I instantly recognized as a lid for a container.

I opened the cache and it was much bigger than the previous caches. It was hidden back in 2004 and I was surprised to see that it was in mint condition. Only the log book was very full. I noted down my visit and looked at some of the interesting items in the cache. I found a red whistle, a Digimon card (I didn't even know those existed), a random piece of black plastic, a screw, some pins, bits of card and some other random stuff I can't remember. I didn't take anything as I had nothing to put in return, but I have to remember to take something with me the next time I go geocaching.

Below are pictures from the trip (I forgot my main camera so I had to take these with my not as good phone camera):
















Here is the pin trading jar.
















Here is the second cache near Otaniemi Chapel.