The Shortest Caching Month!!

 More Traveling!!

Went to Semiahmoo Resort and Spa just past Blaine, Wash. on Jan. 27th for a Walkaround Gig. I did some walkaround for this same company 2 years ago. I love weekday gigs and repeat clients.

Went down early of course so I could grab a few caches.

Susan and I were here back in 2022 so most of the caches here, I have already found.

From several of the caches in the area you could see Canada. Here is a picture of White Rock from one of the caches I got.

This was a cool cache. Took me a little bit to find it. I eventually picked it up to see if the caches was hidden under it and saw that it was inside the piece of driftwood

You can see the underside in the next picture.

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Ucluelet Trip

Booked a gig over on the island in Ucluelet on the west side of the island. 

Went out there early to do some caching and meet up with a couple other magicians in Nanaimo on my way thru for a chat.

Was able to find 8 Traditionals, 1 Puzzle Cache, and 1 Virtual cache

Kamloops Trip

Booked 2 shows in Kamloops on Saturday Feb. 21st

Headed out early of course so I could grab a few caches. 

This was a Gadget Cache in Merritt. There is a old road in Merritt that has several Gadget Caches along it.

If you are ever in the area, I suggest checking it out!!

This one was called "It's a Flush"

Inside the tiny Outhouse was the toilet, and gameboard to figure out the code to the lock.

Took me a bit longer to do this than I wanted to as there was snow in the area and a bit chilly in the shade

Also on the way home Sunday morning I swung thru Hope to grab several.

While looking for this one a couple of muggles walked up and showed me where it was. They said they were gonna get into caching, they just have to download the app.

This one is called "The Watcher of Hope"

He is staring at the cache, but the funny thing about this statue is the other side as you can see in the next picture

Found only a total of 7 caches only on the 2 day trip, but they were all cool caches. I am about the quality, not the quantity!!!

Next month, I will be heading to the States for a few shows.....But more about that in Next months Blog....

Well that's it for this month!!

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65

Cruising for caches

Trip to Kamloops and Salmon Arm

I booked a Walkaround gig in Salmon Arm, BC so Sansue and I headed to Kamloops the evening before to spend the night and then headed to Salmon arm the next day.

I took Susan to a few caches in Kamloops and Salmon Arm that I had already found as I thought she would enjoy them as they had lots of Favorite points on them. One was called "Locks of Hope"

As you can see it was a very cleverly made lock that opened up and there was a small bison tube inside of it.

I got a total of 14 Traditional Caches, 1 puzzle cache and 11 stages from 4 different Adventure Lab's

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Magical Cruise Trip (PCAM)

Went on a short 5 day cruise as part of the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians Convention. This was my second time enjoying the convention on a Cruise Ship

The Cruise was from Vancouver to San Diego, with a stop over in Santa Barbera

The ship we got to go on was Holland America's Eurodam. A beautiful ship, that is 936 feet in length, 106 feet wide, and takes 2104 Guests

Santa Barbara

On the 3rd day of the cruise, I was able to get off the ship for a few hours while in port.

I only wanted to go on shore, so I could grab a few caches, and grab a couple of souvenirs to take home. 

When we came into Santa Barbera, we had to get off the ship in these little boats called tenders.

This picture was taken from the pier. I hung out in Santa Barbera, with another magician friend of mine that was at the convention at sea, who lived in the states.

We had a nice chat over coffee, and he went for a walk with me so I could grab some caches!! He even helped look for them.

 

This was a cool Virtual Cache in Santa Barbera, at a massive Fig Tree.

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Besides the Virtual, I was also able to grab 4 traditional caches and 2 stages of 2 different Adventure Lab's

On our way back to the ship in the tender, we got to see a bunch of pelicans.

The last night on the ship, I wandered around a bit, and it was so quiet. Not a lot of people out enjoying the evening. This is the pool on the ship and the retractable roof was open as it was so calm out.

San Diego Airport Adventure Labs

We got to the airport early, for our flight back into Canada, which was good, as I was able to complete 26 different Adventure Labs for a total of 130 Adventure Lab stages(AKA Finds) 

As you can see by the picture, these Adventure Labs were placed to celebrate geocaching being 25 years old and they were placed to look like the number 25. But if you count how many AL's are in the number 25, there is actually 26 AL's. lol

The one lower in the picture, I already did on a previous trip from San Diego a few years back when PCAM was in Carlsbad, California.

On October 18th it is Adventure Lab day and I will grab an Adventure Lab to get the souvenir 

Next month, I have shows in Squamish, Sunshine Coast, and Prince George, so I will be doing some caches and Adventure labs while traveling. Also Next month I am going to an event where they will be showing the GIFF winners:

(Unfamiliar with GIFF?  Each year geocachers from all over the world are invited to submit their own short films about geocaching.  HQ selects the winners and creates a film reel of 45 - 60 min in length that can be shown at Official GIFF Events. Last GIFF season, over 16,000 geocachers attended 425 Events hosted across 40 countries!)

But more about that in Next Month's Blog......

Well that's it for this month!!

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65

April Road Trip!!!

Comedy Magic Road Trip

I booked a bunch of shows in the interior of BC, so it made for a nice road trip. The trip was from home to Kamloops, to Salmon Arm, to Vernon, to Kelowna, to Hope, and then back home. A nice 5 day trip and I was able to grab several caches each day. The weather was perfect the whole trip, which made for some nice traveling and caching.

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Day 1 (April 15)

Today I left home in the morning and headed to Kamloops where I would be performing this evening.

Headed down the highway towards my first show of 5. 

I stopped into Britton Creek Rest area and was able to grab three full adventure labs and a couple of nearby whereigo caches

One of them I had to stomp through some snow to get to it. Lol

Along the way further up the Coquihalla there were several Challenge caches I would be able to get as I had qualified for all of them. 

Got a puzzle cache in Kamloops upon arrival. I solved it a long time ago when I was there but couldn't find it as there was snow on the ground, but was able to grab it today. 

Grabbed a quick Virtual about "Billy Miner" and the Great Train Robbery where he stopped the wrong train and only found $15 and after a 50 mile horse chase he was caught and sent to jail for life!!!

Day 2 (April 16)

Today I would grab a couple of caches while heading from Kamloops to Salmon Arm, as well as several in Salmon Arm. 

One of the caches I went to get was a letterbox cache that Susan and I started to do on our trip thru here towards Edmonton back in 2020.  

We started getting all the information and then realized the final was in a nearby Library but because we were coming thru here on a Sunday, it was closed, so we headed onto the next cache and stopped trying to solve it.

Was able to grab it this trip except I had to go back to the mural for the info about 3 or 4 times as I kept missing something when I looked for it in the library. 

I went to downtown Salmon Arm for a nice little walk.

I did a couple of Adventure Labs in Downtown Salmon Arm, and there are a lot of cool buildings in the downtown area.

Check out the roof on this building.

Day 3 (April 17)

Today I headed from Salmon Arm to Vernon for this evenings show. 

Did an interesting AL about houses that were over 100 years old in Enderby

Went thru Enderby and Armstrong on the way to Vernon. Grabbed several caches as the trip was only 45 minutes, so I had lots of time for caching today.

Did several Adventure Labs and caches when I got to Vernon as well including several "Free Library's"

This one even had a smile!!!

Day 4 (April 18) 

Today I went from Vernon to Kelowna which was also only 45 minutes away

Was able to do an Earthcache about Hoodoo's while in Kelowna. 

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Day 5 (April 19)

Last day of the tour. Headed out from Kelowna towards Hope, and after the show in Hope I will head back home as I will only be a couple hours away.

In Hope, and I was able to do several caches as well as 2 Adventure Labs about the movie “Rambo”

The movie was mostly filmed here in Hope in 1982, and the AL’s take you to different spots that were used in the movie.

In the Fall of 1981, for 6 weeks, the town of Hope, BC was the site of the filming of the action movie Rambo: First Blood. The movie tells the story of Vietnam War veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), who travels to the fictional town of Hope, Washington. While there, Rambo is arrested by the town’s sheriff, played by Brian Dennehy. Rambo escapes, and a bloody manhunt begins, and culminates into almost leveling the small town.

Very interesting to see all the spots and feel like you were there in the movie. Here I am at the "H Tree"

I also saw the building they used as the Sheriff's office and the Outpost Gun shop, as well as the bridge where he was arrested at, after dropping him off to leave town.

If you are ever in Hope, BC and have seen the movie 

"Rambo-First Blood" I highly suggest you do these 2 Adventure Labs

Here is the scene in the movie at the "H Tree"

Two trees planted long ago, whose young trunks became entwined to form the distinctive letter "H", still stands at the junction of Hudson Bay street and 5th Avenue.

Usually there are two wood carving statues in this spot. One is "Sheriff Will Teasle" and the other is "Rambo"

Unfortunately the "Rambo" carving was not here as some of the carvings are removed over the winter to preserve the nice finish on them. 

I even saw a forklift driving down the street carrying another carving as the city was putting them out since the nicer weather is upon us.

Here is a picture of me with "Rambo" from a previous trip to Hope with Sansue

These 2 "Rambo" Adventure Labs where not there during that trip.

Saw a bear in Hope while waiting for the train to pass by, but he seemed friendly so I wasn't worried!!

The second library cache I did this trip was in Hope. Much quicker to find than the Salmon Arm one. lol

Can you see the Hidden Treasures??

This was the cover of the book, that the cache was in. Very creative to build your own book to reflect the cache itself.

This was the last cache I would do during this trip, as after my show this evening I would be heading home.

In total on my five day road trip I found 60 stages of 18 different Adventure Labs, and 52 caches, which included 23 Traditional's, 1 Multi, 1 Earthcache, 3 Wherigo's, 3 Letterbox caches, 4 Virtual's, and 9 puzzles of which 8 of them were Challenge caches.

Not a bad total for 5 days of caching.

Next month will be a busy month as I will be moving, but I will also be heading over to the Sunshine Coast for some shows, and will be taking Sansue with me, and we will grab several caches while there.....But, more about that in Next Months Blog!!!

Well that's it for this month!!

Keep on caching!!

Magically yours,

Chris Yuill

Magicman65

February is the shortest Month!!!

Seattle Trip

Headed to Seattle with Sansue for a show and I set up a list with some high favorited caches, but it was raining pretty good and we ended up only getting one virtual cache.

I guess we will get the high favorited caches another time.

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I came across a Challenge cache called "Oldies But Goodies 100 Century Challenge" where you needed to have found 100 caches from 2000 and 2001 back when geocaching was just getting started. I love doing Challenge caches and seek them out whenever I travel, so I thought I would see if I qualify.

This is a list of the 2000-2001 Caches I have found so far. Not even close to 100. lol

GC2388	Where the beer got it's name!                Okotoks, Alta.
GC92	Un-Original Stash                                   Beaver Creek, Oregon
GC1169	Mission 9: Tunnel of Light                      Snoqualmie Pass, Washington
GC79	Iron Horse                                              Snoqualmie Pass, Washington
GC2179	Bernie's Traveling GeoCache                Courtney, BC
GCA6	Strathcona Wilderness 1                        Strathcona, Alberta
GC21AF	Dickson -Stevenson Stopping House    Crossfield, Alta.
GC1DD	Treehugger (BC's First Cache)                Vancouver, BC
GC1D28	Good Hope Lake Cache                        Good Hope Lake, BC
GC1D26	Spencer Creek Cache                            Alaska Highway, Yukon
GC1E63	Local Meridian                                        Bellingham, Washington
GC1E09	"United We Stand"                                 Simi Valley, California
GC27DB	Shore Circuit                                         North Vancouver, BC
GC6DF	Lost Loggs                                            Iona Island, BC
GCA2B	Rotten Ole Stumpy                                Vancouver, BC
GC4DB	Burrows Channel Cache                        Anacortes, Washington
GC13DC	Ebey Bluffs                                            Coupeville, Washington

Bellevue Trip

I had a show down in Bellevue last week. It was actually a 3 hours close up/walkaround gig.

I got into town early and was able to grab several caches. One I got was called "Aloonimum Sculpture"

It was a long curved walkway out on the water, that was all aluminum.

The weather was awesome and the water was super calm.

Was able to grab 5 traditional caches before my show. I looked for a puzzle cache that I solved while here. But it sounds like the co-ords are way off according to previous logs, so I eventually gave up the search as I had to get to my event.

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Vernon/Kamloops Trip

Booked a show in Vernon and one in Kamloops also at the end of February on Leap day Feb. 29th

On Leap year day you needed to find 4 caches to get a virtual Souvenir and of course since I was traveling anyway, I had a list of caches I planned on getting. I left home the day before in the evening and drove thru the night to get over the Coquihalla Hwy as I had heard it was a mess with snow. I got to Kelowna at about Midnight and decided to keep heading towards Vernon and grab some caches before stopping for the night.

One of the caches I had on my list was Winfields First Chirp Cache....Well Kinda

It wasn't an actual Chirp Cache but a corner lot with lots of cool birdhouses. When I reached for the cache container which was just sitting on the top of one of the bird houses, two birds flew out and scared the crap out of me. lol

I also got a TB hotel that I missed last time we were thru here.

Grabbed a couple more caches and then stopped at a roadside pullout to sleep for a couple of hours

This one was more like a Bird Hotel and resort.

I grabbed several more after a few hours sleep before mu first show at noon, even almost got an FTF but I was second to find.

Next Month Susan and I are headed to Vegas for a few days, and I have a few caches we will get while there, But more about that in Next months Blog........

Well that's it for this month!!

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65