Geocaching and the March Photo Contest.

Good morning everyone. It's off to Indiana, the home of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indianapolis 500. The oldest active cache is also the most favorite and the most found. 'Indiana's First' GC93 was hidden on October 23, 2000. So far it has 2,937 logged finds and 935 favorite points. It is located in the Elkhart area in Northern Indiana.

This week I wrap up the February photo contest. The theme was to have a picture taken of yourself or your geocaching partner. Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry. In no particular order, here are the entrants.

First up is KennyMasonMady with his geocaching son Mason.

Next up is Snappleandzarfle with her geocaching partner and best friend of over 25 years along with Snappleandzarfle's daughter.

Our third entrant is from GeoJangie and her daughter, Sophia.

I entered all the entrants into the wheel of names.

Clicked on the middle to spin the wheel and this month's winner is.....

Snappleandzarfle. Congrats. I'll be contacting you today for mailing address and get your choice of which prize you would like to have.

Now for the March photo contest. I'm going to go with a spin from Cache the Line's contest where he asked people to send in pictures of themselves wearing tinfoil hats. For this month's contest, a tinfoil hat is an option, but not required. What is required is a picture of yourself wearing your favorite geocaching hat. It could have something pertaining to geocaching on it, or your favorite sports team, or just a hat you like to wear while out geocaching.

I have a few hats that I own, but I gravitate towards a couple. One being an actual geocaching cap.

That's me with one of the kitties, Tinkers, while I caught Cache the Line's Mars Preserverance watch party. I won this hat at the North Dakota Camping and Caching event in 2018.

As for the prizes for March, depending on which one Snappleandzarfle picks, it'll be winner's choice again between prize package #1

Either the Star Trak trackable coin or the trackable button, pathtag and fridge magnet, or prize package #2..

This geocoin that I ordered from I.B. Geocaching Supplies yesterday. Let's see those hats. Good luck to the next winner and thank you to everyone who does enter. You can send your entries by email to thegeocachingguild@gmail.com or direct message on Twitter @thegeocachingg1

That's it for this week. Until next time, be happy, stay safe, wear a mask and wash your hands, hug your furry critters, and most importantly, have fun. Peace out.

A cat owner will see the humor in this. New cat toy towards the bottom of the picture. A more fun thing to play with on the wall. LOL.

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