Island Caching

Island caching

So we postponed our trip to the Gold Country due to the weather on October 18th, and headed out caching on the islands.
Tilbury Island and Deas Island that is. Both of these areas are called Islands but they are joined to the main land mass by bridges as there is a part of the Fraser River that separate's them.

Tilbury Island (I have Highlighted the River, which is more like a Slough that separate's the island from the land mass)

 Deas Island

As you can see in the picture below, I have circled the Massey Tunnel and the Highlighted portion is the trail where you walk above this tunnel. To think while you are walking on land and there are 100's of cars zooming below you is a weird feeling.

It is the only road tunnel below sea level in Canada, making its roadway the lowest road surface in Canada. The Massey Tunnel was the first to use immersed tube technology in North America. The tunnel forms part of Highway 99.

We found several caches on both islands and even 1 Adventure Lab.

The Massey Tunnel was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on July 15th, 1959

This trail sometimes floods due to high tides. Today it was dry so we were able to get the Puzzle cache Tip o' the Island to Ya! 

The cache for the puzzle was up in the tree, way above the tide line.

Found a cool log cache also.

As you can see we found more on Tilsbury

than we did on Deas Island over the 2 days

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!!!

Sunday Caching

Sansue and I went out on a sunny Sunday November 1st and did a bunch of caching near the Coquitlam River and the Oxbow Sidechannel

Most of the caches we did were part of cacher Buggirl1975's series called "Insect series" with a total of 8 caches to find and gather clues, then finding the final cache.

We couldn't find one and one was missing the log book so we were not able to get the final coordinates. We will have to come back another time.

We also found a puzzle cache about Wooly Mammoths.

The Oxbow sidechannel runs thru this area off the Coquitlam river and is a habitat for spawning salmon. We were able to see lots of Salmon coming upstream to lay there eggs at the end of their life cycle.

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Caching the Fraser-Foreshore Trail

 Oliver, Susan, and I went out caching during a day off down  the Fraser-Foreshore Trail. We saw this cool looking splash of paint on some rock beside the trail as we were walking.

 

 

 

This is the area we went caching. It has a lot of cool trails and little bridges, you even go under a train bridge.

Lots of wildlife in the area. We didn't see anything more than bird, but we did here a noise in the bush's on the way to one of the caches.

This was near a cache called "Rockin' Weather Station"

It was a rock hanging from a tree on a string. How the Rock weather station predicts the weather:

1. If rock is wet: it is raining!
2. If rock is white: it is snowing!
3. If rock is dry: no precipitation!
4. If rock is swaying: it is windy!
5. If rock has a shadow: it is sunny!
6. If rock is frosty: it is cold!  (Potentially below 0!)
7. If rock is gone: Hurricane 

We got here just after a train had gone across.

End of the year Souvenirs

From Groundspeaks blog page:

We did it. We made it. This year brought unprecedented change, but we still came together as a geocaching community despite challenges. We adapted by figuring out Zoom to see our friends, geocaching solo, and planning future outings. Even through it all, caches were found, souvenirs were earned, and travel bugs achieved their mileage goals.

Kintsugi is a traditional Japanese art that uses a liquid precious metal to mend the pieces of broken pottery. This art form honors what the pottery has been through and is the perfect metaphor for our souvenir to close out the year.

This year, we invite you to leave 2020 stronger and to welcome 2021 with hope by introducing two new geocaching souvenirs.

How do I earn both souvenirs?

1. Earn the Last 2020 souvenir by finding any geocache from December 24-31.
2. Earn the First 2021 souvenir by finding another geocache from January 1-8.

Geochallenge of the month

Just made the geochallenge of the month requirements with only a couple days before end of month. 

Sometime back I spotted a tweet from a fellow cacher and she posted a pic of the puzzle cache with a big clue. I saved the pic, thinking I would not have to do all the work to find it, I just need the picture. Today I was victorious in finding the cache. No work needed, but A big thank you to the CO and my fellow cacher for the clue!!!  Check out my log on "This cache"

I may have one more blog post before the new year, but in case I don't please stay safe, wash your hands, wear a mask and most of all be nice to each other!!

Well that's it for this month,

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65