Mrs Akacake finds another geocache in Florida!
What is Geocaching? Geocaching is a sport/hobby/pastime where you find co-ordinates with hidden containers, using a GPS. The hidden containers are hidden by other geocachers and the location of the container is found on the geocaching website, there are over 1 million caches hidden world wide!
You need to get a “handle” or name; sign up on the website; download co-ordinates and enter them into your GPS. Once you have found a hidden container, called a “cache” you sign the logbook then update the geocaching website that you have found the cache. You also have the option of trading small items if you wish but some caches are too small to contain any trade items; they might just have room for the logbook only. Some caches are also virtual caches, you will need to answer a few questions about the location your GPS has led you to.
A few caches might also contain Travel Bugs or Geocoins; these are trackable “hitchhikers” needing other geocachers to move them from cache to cache - the owner of the travel bug or coin can determine the “mission” for the hitchhiker.
a coin that I picked up in BC and dropped off in Florida
a travel bug that I made and am leaving in Florida with a mission to make it back to Terrace.
We are known as team “AKACAKE”, the name originated with a nickname of Cake, and was renamed as a.k.a. cake.
We have found almost 500 caches in the past 6 years, and have hidden 17 caches, we also own 24 trackable travelbugs/geocoins.
When we left on this trip we had found almost 300 caches, our goal on this year-long trip was to get 700 more to have a total of 1000 - not sure if we will make it…it is harder than it seems!
a small geocache (green bison tube) found on a tree
(the numbers and letters from the license plate gave clues to another geocache)
an "earth cache" in Alberta. We had to answer some questions about an oxbow lake nearby.
a trail in Florida with several caches
a cache located on the side of a bluff on Cape Breton Island
another earth cache in PEI, had to answer some questions about erosion in the area
looking back from the cache to the lighthouse in PEI
we took a photo of the geocoin at different locations and uploaded to the website
Caching with TJ; a cache on an island in Powell River, only accessible at low tide
the Myrtle Rocks cache in Powell River, BC
another earth cache in Quebec, this one was in French so a little harder
caching in Florida
"Lestar" with the travel bug, King Neptune. I sent it off in 2008 in Terrace with a mission to go to Hay River, NWT...Les found it in the summer of 2010 when it finally made it!
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