Adrian and I went geocaching in Judarskogen nature reserve. We’ve been there before but then mostly followed the main trails, sometimes even on bikes. This time I kept us off those trails for a slightly wilder experience. It’s all criss-crossed with paths so it was still very easy walking, but a bit more fun this way.

In addition to caches we found several fallen trees right across the path. Adrian liked climbing over/under/along those.

We stopped to look at one of the newt ponds. There are several in Judarskogen, all man-made to compensate for the loss of natural ponds suitable for frogs and newts – shallow ponds of still water, with no fish. At first the pond looked all brown, slimy and dead. Then suddenly something moved, and I saw it was a big, fat frog. We looked more closely and saw a whole bunch of them sitting in the shallow muddy water near the edges, with just their eyes sticking out, seemingly staring at us.