Earthcaches and Road trips

Earthcache Challenge

I have been going after Earthcaches recently as I am trying to complete the Challenge cache called "Earthcaches: Challenge of the Century" that I found in Las Vegas, so I can log it. You need to have found 100 Earthcaches to log it. I already signed the cache when I was there, and now I only need about 6 more so I can log it online!!!

This was a cool earthcache and it had to do with some different types of huge marble stones, brought over from Italy.

The holes in the marble made for some very cool pictures!!

Three kinds of Marble

This Cool looking statue, is also an earthcache.

Vesicular Basalt Earthcache

This statue is quarried from vesicular basalt. Basalt is a very common volcanic rock that emanates from volcanoes. If it cools quickly, basalt can become vesicular. Due to the vesicules, the rock is softer and easier to carve than regular basalt. The statue was a gift from the Port of Incheon Korea to the Port of Vancouver.  This statue was quarried and carved on the island of Jeju, Korea, where similar statues serve as guardian and boundary markers on Jeju. This island is volcanic and is known locally for its long lava tubes.



Climbing fun!!!

So when Oliver is not posing for the camera on top of large rocks as seen in my last blog, he also poses on top of large stumps or Logs. lol

Caching in Deer Lake Park

Such a beautiful Easter Weeekend, so Oliver and I headed to Deer Lake Park on Saturday, to grab an Earthcache, a Multicache and several Traditional Caches. The weather was awesome and there where lots of people out walking the trails, with their families.

We even got to see a family of Turtles sunning themselves on a log.

On Easter Sunday I had 3 shows at the Port Moody Museum by Rocky Point Park. As you can see by the picture below, they were very well attended, as the weather was awesome.

YouTube channel

So recently Oliver and I have been doing videos while caching and I have loaded a few up onto our NEW YouTube channel so far. He wanted to start a YouTube channel of his own for caching videos, so I have set one up for us. If you want to check out our progress so far and give us some feedback that would greatly be appreciated. Here are links to 2 of the videos:

"Library Cache Geochallenge"(I wrote about this challenge in last months blog)

"Travel Bug caching"

Please check these out and our new YouTube channel, and comment on the videos, and subscribe to our channel.

NOTE: The highlighted or underlined words in my blog can be clicked on as they are links to other cool stuff!! Also if you click on any of the pictures they become bigger!!!

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Upcoming Caching Trips

Ok, while my upcoming trips I have planned are not actually just for geocaching, of course I will be doing some caches along the way. lol

I will be heading to Edmonton, Alberta in July, for my Nephew's wedding and will grab a few caches while there. (Already building the list) Then in August not only will I be heading to Las Vegas as always for a 4 day magic convention, where I will be there for 10 days, but I will also be taking Oliver to California for a trip to LEGOLAND!!

I am also planning a daytrip, or overnight getaway just to do these caches you see on the map below. Haven't set a date as of yet to do this, but hoping to do it soon. Maybe this coming weekend?? Anyone up for a road trip???

As you can see by the map above, I have selected about 54 caches for this trip. Whether I get them all or not will remain to be seen. You will find out, next blog. (You may notice one has been found by me already. I have that one saved to my list as I will use it as a marker to find a place.)

Well that's it for this month,

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65

Travel bug tags

AirTransat Travel Bugs

One night my sister, from Alberta sent me a link about something to do with Geocaching she said. It was a link to a webpage from AirTransat about some geotours including the one in Richmond. They had placed lots of TB tags in one of the caches and gave a hint as to which one, and were asking cachers to move them around.
Oliver and I headed out the next day and found the cache with all of them in it. There was still 35 of these tags still in the cache box. We took one and started it on its journey. Not sure if there are any prizes for doing so, but I thought it would be interesting to see how far it travels to. The webpage for the info can be found by clicking "HERE"

That's a lot of Travel Tags!!!

After we walked the trail at the place we found the tags, we went and did a couple more caches on the Geotour.

Can you see the cache??

Spoiler Pic!!

FTF

Oliver and I were lounging around one morning when all of a sudden a new cache got published less than a kilometre away from home, so we raced out the door and went and made the find. We even got a starbucks gift card for being the First to find!! YAY!!!

Oliver after the FTF

NOTE: The highlighted or underlined words in my blog can be clicked on as they are links to other cool stuff!! Also if you click on any of the pictures they become bigger!!!

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One warm sunny Saturday we went over to North Vancouver to grab a few caches. The first one we got was an Earthcache (I need 9 more to complete a challenge I did in Las Vegas) It was a cool one called Nephrite Jade Earthcache

The next one was a puzzle cache that I solved online a couple days before, but I wont give you the name as I don't spoil it.

Oliver is up the creek without a paddle

 We then headed away from North Van and headed to Burnaby to grab a couple challenge caches that I have completed called "31 for 331Challenge" and "41 for 441 Challenge"
These were challenges for having certain amount of finds in certain Difficulty/Terrain categories.

 We then headed over to New West Quay to have a nice walk down the waterfront. As you can see from the pictures, Oliver likes to have his pic taken on top of rocks.

Geochallenge of the Month

The Geocaching Vlogger has a monthly Geochallenge that he puts out to the caching community, and when you complete it, you email him and then your name goes into a draw and you have the chance to win a cool geocoin. I was lucky enough to win one several months back for one of the monthly geochallanges he put out. For the month of April, the geochallenge was to find a cache either in a Front Yard or inside a building or business.
Oliver and I went out to Maple Ridge one day to do a Multi cache called "CHC150-Memorial Peace Park"

We had to find 3 different locations within the park and gather clues to reveal the Dewey* Decimal number of a book in the nearby Library.

It was a cool cache and we made a video of us doing the stages and finding it in the Library. We have actually been making several movies of our caching adventures which I will be putting online on YouTube as a GeoAdventures YouTube Page.

Note: As you can see, I like doing challenge caches which are defined below:
A challenge cache requires seekers to find an associated physical cache, and to find an additional set of geocaches as defined by the challenge owner. Challenge caches encourage geocachers to set and achieve fun goals. Examples of challenge caches: find a cache every day of the calendar year, or find one for every Difficulty/Terrain combination.

*The Dewey Decimal Classification System is the most widely used method for classifying books in the library. This system is a general knowledge organization tool that is continuously revised to keep pace with knowledge. It is named after Melvil Dewey, an American Librarian who developed it in 1876

Well that's it for this month,

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65