My last couple of days in Oslo resulted in several new cache finds, which brings my total up to 137. Not bad in 3 months.

Yesterday my dad and I drove up toi the Tryvann tower to get some nice panoramas. that plan didn’t go that well, but I did manage to get some cache finds on the way. Then, today, I took off into the city while the rest of the famiily was busy with work and school.

Turns out, most geocaches in Oslo are extremely boring. Nanos, micro, more micros and another nano. Out of 14 caches found today, only a single one had room for items. It’s of course a result of urban caching and if they are any larger they would be muggled, but it still gets boring.

Another issue is the amount of mugglers. They are EVERYWHERE, you simply can’t expect to be alone anywhere, so it comes down to being stealthy. A couple of caches I went to were inaccessible due to mugglers (one had the entire population of a kindergarten literally sitting on it), others required some peculiar moves to retrive the caches. Oslo isn’t exactly the small town I’m used to either, so suspecious activity isn’t a good idea. Still, I got through the day without being arrested.

The highlight of the day was one of the last caches I went to. A man was standing nearby looking at me, and since I had a visual on the cache but no way of retriving it I retreated a bit. He walked around the cache as well and I noticed that what I had though to be his cellphone in his hand looked too thick. I asked him in Norwegian if it was a GPS, and he answered in English that he didn’t understand. I asked again in English, and he said that it was. I fiched out my GPS from my pocket, showed it to him and said “I think we might be doing the same thing”. He smiled and agreed, and we both logged the cache. I talked to Bill (that was his name) for a while, he was on vacation from the US and had taken the chance to do some caching. Second time I run into geocachers on a cache, and both times have been tourists. Maybe I’ll get to meet a Norwegian geocacher one day too.

I also took some photos with my beloved DSLR. I really want the Canon 55-250mm lense to give me a bit more flexibility with close-ups, as the 18-55mm kit lense makes it hard to shoot things like birds, far away boats etc. I won’t get to edit the photos until tomorrow when I get home to a my own computer with a 1080p screen and Adobe Camera Raw, as these were more “artistic” and need some fine tuning. There are however a total of 5 new panoramas from these days in Oslo in the panoramas section (link in the top menu).

After walking around the city for literally 8 hours my feet are shot, so I’m glad to be going home tomorrow. I still have some caches to find closer to home, which I’ll try to find during the summer before I move.