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Geocaching and Pictures, part 2

Good morning everyone.  The daily caching streak.  Have you done one?  What is your longest?  Did you know that there are six geocachers in Manitoba that went more than one thousand days in a row of finding a geocache?  There are seventy six Canadians with streaks over one thousand days.  Four hundred and twenty seven American geocachers have streaks over one thousand days.  None of those are from North Dakota.

This week is a quick blog that I prepared over a week ago.  With really no time to sit and compose a proper blog, I decided to let the pictures tell a story of some of my past adventures.  I believe I found these particular caches in 2014.  I know for certain that four of these caches are still active.

This one I found in Ontario, on my way to Blue Lake with the boys for a week of camping.  'Whistlin' Dixie - TCDNON' GCW3RW.  The camo blended in really good.  From a distance, it looked like a stump among other trees.  You can see the container in the picture.  This cache was archived in 2017.


I spent one evening, on the last day of June, cycling around and getting caches in a general area.  This was one of my stops as I wanted to get this Virtual.  I should do more caching by bike.  It's a lot of fun and good exercise.


Another of my favorite caches was this ammo can and surrounding area.  This is 'A Tribute to Crackerjackie' GC55XG8.  Crackerjackie is a local geocacher and a breast cancer survivor.  4elements5senses put this together as a tribute to crackerjackie for her strength and courage to battle and win against cancer.

I love unique containers and this one was certainly a unique container.  Not sure where the CO got his hands on a glass skull (two of them actually as there is/was a second cache with the same host).  This one was hidden under a bridge.  This one has since been archived.  It was my 657th find and day #106 of my daily caching streak.  Why didn't I stop at day 100 like I originally planned?  LOL  You never know what is lurking under a bridge when you go caching.  I love looking for caches under bridges.


Another interesting host.  A puck.  Hidden at a hockey rink naturally.  I found this one in Brandon, Manitoba while I was there for a union conference.  I was always able to combine union travel and geocaching.  I had a reason to be travelling to wherever I was being sent, so may as well grab some geocaches as well.

Another one of my favorite hides.  This one is 'Zach's Place' GC1HC4Y.  I had spotted this one very early in my geocaching days but I couldn't claim it found until I figured out how I was going to get up the pole to retrieve the container.  An entire Winter passed.  Everytime I drove by, I could see it way up the pole, taunting me.  Very early on a Sunday morning in the summer, I grabbed my extension ladder, loaded it up in my now ex wife's van and drove to GZ.  I set up the ladder, climbed, got my hands on that container and signed the log sheet.  For added proof, I took this picture of the container with the sun rising above the construction of what is now Seven Oaks Arena.

Fingers crossed that next week will be the first edition of my journey down to North Dakota for the camping and caching event.  Since this blog was composed immediately after I completed last week's blog, there is no update on my monthly challenges.  

Until next week, be happy, be safe, enjoy life, and most of all, have fun.  Peace out.



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