I love to Travel

Bella Bella Trip

This Christmas Season I got to do a fair bit of travelling to shows. I flew up to Bella Bella for a show. It is 145km North of the top of Vancouver Island, which is about 480km away from me.

 If you recall from last months blog I was sad as I looked on geocaching and there was no caches in Bella Bella. 

After a quick flight, I got picked up at the airport, and got a quick tour of the town.

This was the actual plane I flew up in, not the one above. lol

Water Taxi

Well as it turns out, after flying there, and after my tour of Bella Bella, I hopped on this boat and it took me on a 9 minute ride over to the community of Shear Water, which is on a different Island.

This was were I would spend the night and do my show.

PS: On the right hand side of this webpage is where you can find my YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram, links. Please feel free to check them out and follow or subscribe!!!

And since my show was over on the Shear water side of the community, there was 4 caches in the area close to where I was staying. I went and grabbed one that was nearby. Yay!!!

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!!!

Silver Reef Casino Magic Trip 

Had a show at the Silver Reef Casino in the Ferndale, Washington area and Susan came with me. We grabbed several caches including an earthcache about Tsunami's at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Building.

I used to have an earthcache in Victoria about Tsunami's but had to archive it when the sign got taken down after being vandalized.

Bellevue, Washington Magic trip

Had a Corporate show in Bellevue at "Mox" in a speak easy inside the restaurant. 

Was able to get this awesome cache before the show called "Lesson for Urban Geocaching"

As you can see it was a Newspaper box but on the front window there was a FTF Magazine cover. This was no ordinary Newspaper box.

It needed a 9 Volt battery to open the electronic lock. Luckily for me there was one in a small box magnetized to the side of the Newspaper box.

Redmond and Woodinville Trip

I got to do a show one morning for Microsoft and my second show in the evening was for Google employees.

I grabbed 2 caches in between shows.

Prince George Trip

Just like this statue at the Vancouver airport, I have been rushing from show to show, and although this month has been a hectic month and very busy with lots of shows and lots of travelling, I enjoy it when it is busy and can only hope to be busier in the future!!

I only got one cache while in Prince George. It was a virtual cache called "Mr. P,G."

Mr. PG is a mascot for and monument in Prince George, British Columbia. He was first constructed in 1960 as a symbol of the importance of the forestry industry to the city. He currently stands at the junction of Highway 97 and Highway 16. He is 8.138 m (26.70 ft) tall and his head is 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) in diameter. The original was constructed out of wood but the current replacement is made mostly of painted metal. For both versions his head was, and is currently, fabricated from a spherical plastic septic tank.

Mr. PG's first appearance occurred on May 8, 1960, at a Rotary International conference taking place at the Simon Fraser Inn. Later that year, he took part in the Prince George May Day parade and could speak and bow. In 1961, he was entered in the Kelowna Regatta and the Vancouver PNE Parade, and also travelled to Smithers. Two years later, he appeared in the 1963 Grey Cup parade. In 1970, he was installed at his current location, the intersection of Highways 16 and 97.

Mr. PG was trademarked by the City in 1985. In 1997, children's performer Al Simmons, wrote a song about him titled Mr. PG. In 2009, Canada Post featured him on a stamp.

Despite his forest industry roots, Mr. PG echoes a resounding commitment to supporting a brighter tomorrow through various initiatives, proudly showcased through his distinctive clothing and fluttering flags.

At the end of this month on New Year's Eve, I will be doing a show in Tulalip at the Casino there. Susan is gonna come with me and we will head down early to grab some cool caches as well as on the way home on New Years day, but more about that and more in next month's blog..........

Well that's it for this month!!

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65

Hiding and finding, and a Magic trip!!

  Cache Hiding

I hid a cache this past week. I have been hauling this cache around for weeks looking for a spot to hide it. Every time I look and see some spot on the map, another small or micro cache appears. This is one of the reasons for my cache called "Too Many Micro's!?

It seems that a lot of micro's are being hidden, and it would be nice to see some regular or large caches being placed. I also got this cool souvenir for placing a hide this year. I haven't been placing as many as I did when I was over on the island, but I would like to change that, and get some more out there. 

PS: On the right hand side of this webpage is where you can find my YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram, links. Please feel free to check them out and follow or subscribe!!!

I love FTF's

Got 3 FTF's today, one of which was not even published yet. A cache got published nearby, but I did not have time to head for it as we were getting ready to go to Soccer. As I was taking Oliver to soccer and as  we were driving I noticed a bike laying on the grass at the side of the road. I pointed it out to him, and then he said isn't that "Bobthegoalie?"

Bob is a local cacher that places out quite a few caches in this area. He had just placed one and was coming out of the spot when we saw him. I got Oliver to soccer and as I did another cache got published, another Bobthegoalie cache, so I headed for it. As I was walking up to the spot Bob pulled up. We chatted and he stayed to watch me get it to make sure the co-ords were correct. I mentioned to him that we saw him coming out of the bush along the road earlier, and asked if he had placed a cache. He said yes. After signing the log, I headed to that spot. I quickly found what I was looking for, signed it, and then headed to the one that had come out an hour earlier. To my surprise I found an empty logbook. 3 First to Finds with one being unpublished. When it gets published, I do not have to chase after it, I just need to log it online. lol

Edit Note: Cache was published 3 days after and I signed as 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!!!

PCAM Magic trip

I went to Carlsbad, California for a Magic Convention this past week. During the trip we went thru LA, Carlsbad, and San Diego, I was able to get several Adventure Lab's at the airports I went thru. I got 2 caches in San Diego. One of the caches took a bit of looking as it was a difficult cache to find with lots of Favorite points, and DNF's. 

This is where the GPS brought me to the cache named "Got Gas?" My god, It could be anywhere!!!

Can you see the cache?

Looked for about 20 minutes, touching and feeling everything. Finally I spotted it!!

When a cache has lots of Favorite points, and lots of DNF's,

you know its not gonna be easy, and you can bet it's not going to be a magnetic nano or key box. It will most likely be hidden in plain site!!

It's gonna blend in!!

There was just so much stuff that it could have been.

Also grabbed a Virtual cache at San Diego airport, before our flight home. Love getting Virtuals when I travel.

Victoria Trip

I went to Victoria on Vancouver Island for a day as I had a show over there. Was able to grab a couple of Virtual caches, 3 Traditional caches and an Adventure Lab before the show.

I am heading off for a corporate event to a small town called Bella Bella which is on Campbell Island at

the end of the month to perform some Magic. As you can see from the screen shot from the caching app there is NO caches where I am going!!! Yikes!! But hopefully I can get some awesome photo's from up there. Anyway, More about that in Next Months blog!!

Well that's it for this month!!

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65