Earthcache Day and Adventure labs

 International Earthcache day

So today, October 9th was International Earthcache Day. Most of the Earthcaches around me, I have already found. But today I had a show over in Surrey, so it worked out that I was able to do one over that way on the way to my show.
This one was about Drumlin's. I found one about Drumlin's a few years back on a trip to Logan Lake. 

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Got a virtual souvenir for finding an earthcache. 

Adventure Labs 

I had planned to go caching at the Vancouver Wireless Station in Delta with Sansue on the weekend, but the weather decided to say no. lol. Rain all weekend, so we ended up doing 3 Adventure Labs instead. We picked 3 easier ones and most of the spots we barely had to get out of the car. 

These mosaic tiles are all over New Westminster, and part of one of the AL's we did.

  

We also visited "Friendship Gardens in the Royal City" to do another AL.

Cool bridge

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Looked at "Feedspot", which is a blog listing of the top 45 Geocaching Blogs, and I see I have moved up to the 13th spot.

How exciting is this???

Cemetery caching (6000th cache find)

Needed a spooky cache for the October Geochallenge of the Month. Couldn't find a spooky type cache, so I went to a cemetery instead.

Had to search out a specific tombstone to get info for location of the cache. Took some time to find the right one.

Vancouver Wireless Station

This past weekend we (Susan and I) went to the old site of the Vancouver Wireless Station to do some caches. It was a bit confusing because we were trying to do an Adventure Lab, a Multi that we had to work out each stage location(so we did not know where we had to go) a Wherigo, a Puzzle, and a letterbox cache all at the same time as well as grabbing the occasional Traditional cache. There is such a cool history at this park that was once a small community. You can still see remnants of buildings and gateways to the houses and structures that were here.

This site was Re-established as the Vancouver Wireless Station call sign WVS in 1949, the site operated radio equipment for communication and gathering signals intelligence. The Vancouver Wireless Station had facilities much like other post-war bases, including singles quarters, 150 permanent married quarters, dining halls and messes, a Medical Inspection Room, administration building, gymnasium with a sport field with 2 ball diamonds and tennis courts, a chapel, woodworking and automotive shops, a grocery store (later CANEX), engineering and transport sections and a fire hall. Most of these facilities were located on a property directly north of the airfield.
When the Canadian Forces were unified in 1968, the site was renamed Canadian Forces Station Ladner. The downsizing associated with unification would soon hit CFS Ladner, and in 1971 it was permanently closed. The municipality of Delta maintains the area north of the airport as North 40 Park Reserve, features interpretive historical signs throughout what was formerly the residential quarters area of the base. The station, which at one point housed approximately 500 residents, has long since been torn down, with some buildings being relocated. The location is now a reserve with lots of wildlife including many bald eagles.  It is also an off-leash dog park, and a popular location for film sets. 

 

This walkway entrance to a house or property still remains, as do some other structures. (Spoiler) this is one of the locations to gather info for the Multi cache.

An old foundation from a structure.

Trans Canada Highway Adventure Lab Series

I am still doing some work on my TCHAL. I was contacted by another cacher from Alberta and they wanted to know if they could do the section from Revelstoke to Golden. Originally I was only planning to do from Golden to the BC/Alberta, but when no one else said they would do from Salmon Arm to Golden area, I said I would extend my lab to Revelstoke. I have looked at online maps and I think I should be able to easily do 10 locations from Golden to the Border. I am going to try to get out that way soon.

I will write more about this in my next blog. Until then, Stay Safe, Get Vaccinated, Wear your Mask, and Wash your Hands!!

Well that's it for this month,

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65