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This weekend, we (ok - “I”) hid our first geocache!

Frustrated with the lack of caches within walking distance of our place - I decided to fill the void and introduce cachers to our neck of the concrete woods.  There’s plenty of interesting sites to be seen around Akabanekita 3 chome… at least I think so!

Just a couple blocks east of our place takes you to a massive set of downwards steps, only half of which are seen here…

The base offers a unique locale for our first cache…

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If you’re anxiously awaiting more pictures of our cute little fella - it’ll have to wait a few days! He’s decided to take his time coming out of the hospital - and who can blame him. It’s a crazy world out here.

But believe it or not - Naoki already has his first few cache finds! How’s that possible you say? Well - ok, he may have still been in the belly at the time. I am sure he still experienced it all none the less!

Join us for a fastforward view of some geocaching highlights from last Sunday on a beautiful (but cloudy) November day in Tokyo:

Spent another afternoon geocaching with Makiko to try and get my count up a bit higher. Three more finds - while not huge - helps a bit. Have a look at some of the new pictures in the album.

We got to pay a visit to Kevin Rudd’s Sydney residence on our journey - at Kirribilli House. I was surprised that security around the place would allow a geocache. Maybe they haven’t noticed it yet … or perhaps they did notice it and were rest assured by the “Geocache Harmless” labels on all sides of it. Hmmm…

Also picked up a couple of travel bugs like Mario here, and will take them on some of my travels.

Not that Mario hasn’t already been around the block. He’s already traveled 20,000 odd km’s to date…

Got my first FTF this weekend with JC, but we had to avoid imminent death amongst the likes of these:

I haven’t quite identified them yet - so I don’t know if they’re poisonous or not. Still - they looked scary enough for me!

Since when is Geocaching supposed to be a dangerous sport…

Now that my dad’s is up to over 500 caches (!!!) - I’ve got to get back in the game. I’ve enlisted the help of my fearless buddy JC to help bring my pitiful total up a bit.

Watch the scoreboard grow in real time here:

And check for updated pictures here as I try in desperation to catch up.