Sleeping in the new SUV proved to to be good, but up a little early. About 0430 Larry and I were up and eating our bagel and cheese. Our boat ride to the trail head was at 0550 and every one was up and ready to go by that time when along comes our water Taxi ride to the trail head about an hour away. The ride on the boat up Great Central Lake at this time of the morning was just beautiful. Although the noise of the 225 horse power out board motor appeared loud at first as it moved us along the lake, it soon seemed to blend in as we looked at the great views of the lake and mountain sides. There were a lot of floating cabins along the was but not a person in view.
After about an hour we arrived at the dock and trail head for the beginning of our 16 KM hike to Della Falls. We unloaded our packs ranging from 32 pounds to about 40 pounds. There is a Geocache at this spot but decided to do it on the way out as there were about 14 hikers sleeping in the trail area.
So packs on and we started our hike on Canada Day to Della Falls. CCC took the lead in the beginning as he was our team leader for Della Falls Quest 2017.
The start of the trail was excellent, the sun was shinning at it's best and we moved at a good but steady pace. As we moved on we encountered a lot of dried up or running active streams we had to cross on our way to the cable car crossing.
Once we arrived at the cable car we decided to take a break and have some lunch for a short time. Two groups behind us caught up and there were many hikers on the other side as well wanting to cross to our side. Once we finished our break everyone from both sides helped each other pull on the ropes, two hikers and two packs at the time. It was pretty quick be we had enough time to enjoy the the views below. The rushing waters were loud and fast. The color of the water was sort of green. The water was very cold but a nice way to cool off any tired feet as many hikers did.
At this point the trail changed considerable and begin to test our abilities, it was up and down, not as wide, up and over large trees and rocks and a lot of river beds with a lot of running water from time to time.
After several hours and beginning to get very tired, sore feet, a large patch of snow appeared on the trail for a short distance but the best part was that we could see the falls in the distance. A little of yelling and using some of the snow to cool us down. Little did we know our hike was far from over.
Our hike continued becoming even harder for some of us, I think the packs had a lot to do with it.
After hiking for a little over 7 1/2 hours including a few breaks we arrived at the saw blade camp site. We thought we might stay here as we were exhausted but we decided to move closer to the falls which was about another short KM. We begin to see that all the camp sites were full, Canadian flags flying and we were so proud to have arrived at Della Falls.
Once we crossed the bridge, and we were all looking for a site to accommodate 3 tents, CCC found one off the beaten track and just down the bank was water.
We started to set up camp and after 8 hours and just snack type food all day, supper was in order. We all cooked a meal and refueled. We were so hungry and it is amazing what freeze dried meals taste like, words like, the best, excellent and so good.
As the tents were already up, fires were not allowed, I decided to have a short nap, getting old I guess.
Then we all got ready to do the short hike up to the base of the falls. I am sure there are many words to describe these falls, the highest in Canada as well as being here on Canada's days 150th birthday but I think I would say it is life changing. We were 6 to 8 meters where the water hit the rocks, the cold mist soaking us as we stood in awe. The noise was ever so load yet it felt like being in a trance as I watched the water flow to the rocks.
After some time, we headed back to the camp for what ever hot we had, tea, coffee or hot chocolate.
We sat around talking about our hike in as if it was nothing, laughing about it sort of but when I think back it was a good hike with good people despite the distance and difficulties we encountered weather it be personal or as a group.
I believe this is the best Canada Day in my life, despite not having my beautiful wife with me. It was nature at it's best, a waterfall that is higher than any other other in out great country and having to hike a good distance with good friends to see it.
Tomorrow will bring a better view of all of the falls from the look out and certainly looking forward to it. Paulboy
Sunday, 9 July 2017
Tuesday, 4 July 2017
Della falls Quest-2017
As we prepare for our hike to Della Fall in the morning, 150 Canada Day, it has taken some work to get prepared.
First it was getting everything ready, food, tent, clothes, first aid and every thing one would need for a three day hike to the falls. I packed, unpacked and packed three times trying to get my total weight of my pack and supplies from 37 + pounds down to 30 pounds. Then there was the two 10 km hikes, first with the 37 pound pack, way to heavy then after removing more do not need items, a final hike to test it all out. Some how I feel that my little 10 KM training hikes will not be the same as the hike to the falls.
It is noon on the 30th June I head off to Port Alberni to meet up with Landchatch for some caching before meeting up at Boston Pizza at 1900 hours for our last real supper.
But one does not go to PA without stopping at the great Coombs Wooden Shoes for a chat and some candy but this time I did not get any as the extra weight, well you know.
Landshatch and I managed to get 22 caches.
We met up with CCC, Autumn Rain, Done21 & Islander54 for the last supper, always a lot of laughs and wondering what the hike will be like tomorrow. So many stories about the 16 KM hike to the falls.
After supper a few more caches, then off the the boat ramp area where we all settled in sleeping along side the road in our trucks, camper and SUV's.
As our day comes to a close we await morning to begin out hike.
Our first day will be posted later. Paulboy
First it was getting everything ready, food, tent, clothes, first aid and every thing one would need for a three day hike to the falls. I packed, unpacked and packed three times trying to get my total weight of my pack and supplies from 37 + pounds down to 30 pounds. Then there was the two 10 km hikes, first with the 37 pound pack, way to heavy then after removing more do not need items, a final hike to test it all out. Some how I feel that my little 10 KM training hikes will not be the same as the hike to the falls.
It is noon on the 30th June I head off to Port Alberni to meet up with Landchatch for some caching before meeting up at Boston Pizza at 1900 hours for our last real supper.
But one does not go to PA without stopping at the great Coombs Wooden Shoes for a chat and some candy but this time I did not get any as the extra weight, well you know.
Landshatch and I managed to get 22 caches.
We met up with CCC, Autumn Rain, Done21 & Islander54 for the last supper, always a lot of laughs and wondering what the hike will be like tomorrow. So many stories about the 16 KM hike to the falls.
After supper a few more caches, then off the the boat ramp area where we all settled in sleeping along side the road in our trucks, camper and SUV's.
As our day comes to a close we await morning to begin out hike.
Our first day will be posted later. Paulboy
Sunday, 25 June 2017
Organization Thread, Geocaching Team Edition
As you can see by the title, CreekyClanChris, our tall and fierce leader has put our our final marching orders and we now have 5 more day until the team meets at the docks just before 0600 hours to start our hike on Canada Day to the highest waterfall in Canada. I will be putting a Canadian flag near the base of the falls for pictures and to celebrate Canada's 150 birthday.
I have a special dessert/treat for all the team in honor of Canada's birthday as well.
As I am all packed and will sleep in the back of the SUV on Friday night after grabbing a few caches in Port Alberni before bedding down. But it will not be in my Tribute but my new Hyundai Tucson I purchased today. It will have that new car smell and may make a little had to sleep in. LOL
Reports are that the trails to the falls are good and no snow but the trail to Love lake has heavy snow last weekend. So looking forward to the hike. Stay tuned for some daily blogs on my return.
One more tidbit, we have an event on July 2nd and someone other than us has logged in as attending. So exciting to have an event so far away and knowing others will be in the area to join us.
Paulboy
I have a special dessert/treat for all the team in honor of Canada's birthday as well.
As I am all packed and will sleep in the back of the SUV on Friday night after grabbing a few caches in Port Alberni before bedding down. But it will not be in my Tribute but my new Hyundai Tucson I purchased today. It will have that new car smell and may make a little had to sleep in. LOL
Reports are that the trails to the falls are good and no snow but the trail to Love lake has heavy snow last weekend. So looking forward to the hike. Stay tuned for some daily blogs on my return.
One more tidbit, we have an event on July 2nd and someone other than us has logged in as attending. So exciting to have an event so far away and knowing others will be in the area to join us.
Paulboy
Sunday, 18 June 2017
Della Falls
On July 01, 2017, CreekyClanChris has put a team together to do the Della Falls hike. I am part of that team. I will do a detailed daily post on my return, July 03, 2017. This consists of driving to Port Alberni on Friday night, sleeping in the SUV and getting a one hour plus boat ride up Great Central Lake at 0600 hours in the morning. Once we arrive at the dock and start of the Della Falls Trail head, it is a 15 to 16 KM hike to the base camp. On day two we may kike to Love Lake depending on the snow for a swim??? That is a 3+ KM hike with a top view of the falls.
Della Falls is the highest falls in Canada and one of the highest in North America.
I did a 9.5 hike today with a 25 pound with all my supplies needed for that 3 day weekend. It took me 2.5 hours with some good hills in Ladysmith.
Looking forward to this adventure. Paulboy
Della Falls is the highest falls in Canada and one of the highest in North America.
I did a 9.5 hike today with a 25 pound with all my supplies needed for that 3 day weekend. It took me 2.5 hours with some good hills in Ladysmith.
Looking forward to this adventure. Paulboy
Saturday, 31 December 2016
Sheesh695 How to end a year of caching!
It was 0640 hours when Shees695 & MFF picked me up in Ladysmith for a day of caching in the Trent River area. We all piled into my Geomobile and off we went. The sky was full of stars and such a beautiful distance color. The drive up was great and chatting about our holidays and how we would approch our caching day. We arrived just before 0800 hours and noticed that there was a little snow on the ground, hard crusted and a bit of ice here and there. We got our kit together and set out staying on the trail/road to the east toward the power lines. A very cool morning it was.
The trail had hard crusted snow so the hiking was easy. We had to cross over two stream areas but that was no problem. Until we reached the power lines, there was only 6 caches. We managed to find three and had three DNF's. The ground was frozen where the caches were and it impossible to find them. We decided at the point we would continue but the possiblity of more DNF's was a certainty.
We now reached the power lines, turned east towards the river. The trail was not visible due to snow so we were on our way down to the opening, a flat area to see if we could find the trail.
It was at this point that Sheesh695 hooked her foot on a frozen branch in the snow/ice and bent her foot/leg the wrong way and down she went. She felt that she had broken her foot/ leg or both. As we started to try and help her, it became apparent the we could not move her and that she did break something.
As MFF had some mdical supplies, she lossen her shoe slightly and applied a tenson and hiking spats to the broken area. As she was laying on ice and movement was not possible, we covered her with a emg. blanket.
I called 911, relaying the info and Search and Rescue was alearted to our sisitution. They had our position via my phone and I informed them the quickest and fastest way to our position. This was around 1100 hours. But the info I had given was not relayed properly and SARS were not sure on how the best way was to get to us. They finally called me and almost 2 hours later, they arrived.
During this time, Sheesh695 was getting cold so we took off our jackets and touques to help keep her warm.
Then we started taking turns in cutting cedar branches to cover her up more. Each step we did helped in keeping her warm. We did try to lift her upper body to get some of the branches under her as the ice kept cooling her down.
Several hikers came by but had no supplies and they moved on. By the time the Search and Rescue arrived, we were begining to get a little cold as well but certainly nothing to worry about but would have been a different story if it was later in the day and the sun went down.
At this point, Search & Rescue took over and got her into a streacher and began to warm her up but we still had to wait for a different Quad in order to properly transport her to the Highway for a waiting ambulance. Once it arive about 15 minutes later, they got her in the Quad and we began the walkout as they had to move slower that a walking pace. Over all it took about 3 1/2 hours from the time I called 911.
We followed the ambulance to the Comox hospital and after about an hour she had xrays, drugs (not sure what came first) and it was confirmed that she had a serious break and surgary was required. They decided that they would either send her to Campbell River or Duncan via ambulance so MFF and I began our drive back to Ladysmith.
Now for ther fun part, we were at Qualicum beach turn off when we got a call asking that we come back to get her and bring her home for surgary in the morning, They had put on a plastic type cast, more meds, so we turned around and back to Comox.
She was certainly in good spirts on the way home a but a little mad at having broken some bones.
I guess there are some lessons to learn from this, proper first aid supplies, extra to keep you warm in the cold times. Hiking alone would have been a very serious problem in the snow and cold season. We were lucky that we had cell reception other wise one of would have had to go for help once we got her stable and warm. But in the end, all is good for now and I will inform you of her results once I know.
Safe caching. Geocaching My Way of Life Paulboy
The trail had hard crusted snow so the hiking was easy. We had to cross over two stream areas but that was no problem. Until we reached the power lines, there was only 6 caches. We managed to find three and had three DNF's. The ground was frozen where the caches were and it impossible to find them. We decided at the point we would continue but the possiblity of more DNF's was a certainty.
We now reached the power lines, turned east towards the river. The trail was not visible due to snow so we were on our way down to the opening, a flat area to see if we could find the trail.
It was at this point that Sheesh695 hooked her foot on a frozen branch in the snow/ice and bent her foot/leg the wrong way and down she went. She felt that she had broken her foot/ leg or both. As we started to try and help her, it became apparent the we could not move her and that she did break something.
As MFF had some mdical supplies, she lossen her shoe slightly and applied a tenson and hiking spats to the broken area. As she was laying on ice and movement was not possible, we covered her with a emg. blanket.
I called 911, relaying the info and Search and Rescue was alearted to our sisitution. They had our position via my phone and I informed them the quickest and fastest way to our position. This was around 1100 hours. But the info I had given was not relayed properly and SARS were not sure on how the best way was to get to us. They finally called me and almost 2 hours later, they arrived.
During this time, Sheesh695 was getting cold so we took off our jackets and touques to help keep her warm.
Then we started taking turns in cutting cedar branches to cover her up more. Each step we did helped in keeping her warm. We did try to lift her upper body to get some of the branches under her as the ice kept cooling her down.
Several hikers came by but had no supplies and they moved on. By the time the Search and Rescue arrived, we were begining to get a little cold as well but certainly nothing to worry about but would have been a different story if it was later in the day and the sun went down.
At this point, Search & Rescue took over and got her into a streacher and began to warm her up but we still had to wait for a different Quad in order to properly transport her to the Highway for a waiting ambulance. Once it arive about 15 minutes later, they got her in the Quad and we began the walkout as they had to move slower that a walking pace. Over all it took about 3 1/2 hours from the time I called 911.
We followed the ambulance to the Comox hospital and after about an hour she had xrays, drugs (not sure what came first) and it was confirmed that she had a serious break and surgary was required. They decided that they would either send her to Campbell River or Duncan via ambulance so MFF and I began our drive back to Ladysmith.
Now for ther fun part, we were at Qualicum beach turn off when we got a call asking that we come back to get her and bring her home for surgary in the morning, They had put on a plastic type cast, more meds, so we turned around and back to Comox.
She was certainly in good spirts on the way home a but a little mad at having broken some bones.
I guess there are some lessons to learn from this, proper first aid supplies, extra to keep you warm in the cold times. Hiking alone would have been a very serious problem in the snow and cold season. We were lucky that we had cell reception other wise one of would have had to go for help once we got her stable and warm. But in the end, all is good for now and I will inform you of her results once I know.
Safe caching. Geocaching My Way of Life Paulboy
Sunday, 13 November 2016
Hiking and travel
Over the past few months Landchatch, Islander54 and I have been doing sections of the Juan de Fuca Trail system, mostly in the rain. These trails are wonderful and some spots were certainly not for the faint of heart. On some of of our hikes we parked the car, hiked to the trail and back to the parked car for a distance of 15 to 21KM's depending on what day. We have now completed about 2/3 of the trail and look forward of completing the rest of the trail in the spring.
We also hiked some of the Alberni Inlet trail three weeks ago and did a total of 19.2 KM's that day. The weather was a little damp in the morning but it cleared up and in late morning the sun started to show it's face. Some of the was trail was a little muddy and will certainly hinder our efforts to finish it off until late spring. The views were breath taking and would recommend this trail system for everyone to try out, keeping in mind that some parts are a difficultly of 4.
On November 4, Princess! and I flew to Campbellton NB to visit family and have been doing caching on some of the trails in Campbellton NB and Cross Point in Quebec. The weather was certainly cold, reaching 0. The caching is a lot different, not only weather wise but their way of hiding and type of containers the use. After 7 days in this area we moved on the Moncton NB for one night, caching along the way and then drove to Halifax, NS today and did one cache on the trip. We did a few caches in Halifax this afternoon. We pland to do some tourist things, visit a few old friends and do caching as much as possible. My goal is to find the first cache in Canada which is about 30 minutes from my hotel. I will write a short blog once I find the oldest cache. Paulboy
We also hiked some of the Alberni Inlet trail three weeks ago and did a total of 19.2 KM's that day. The weather was a little damp in the morning but it cleared up and in late morning the sun started to show it's face. Some of the was trail was a little muddy and will certainly hinder our efforts to finish it off until late spring. The views were breath taking and would recommend this trail system for everyone to try out, keeping in mind that some parts are a difficultly of 4.
On November 4, Princess! and I flew to Campbellton NB to visit family and have been doing caching on some of the trails in Campbellton NB and Cross Point in Quebec. The weather was certainly cold, reaching 0. The caching is a lot different, not only weather wise but their way of hiding and type of containers the use. After 7 days in this area we moved on the Moncton NB for one night, caching along the way and then drove to Halifax, NS today and did one cache on the trip. We did a few caches in Halifax this afternoon. We pland to do some tourist things, visit a few old friends and do caching as much as possible. My goal is to find the first cache in Canada which is about 30 minutes from my hotel. I will write a short blog once I find the oldest cache. Paulboy
Sunday, 2 October 2016
2nd trip to the Juan de Fuca Trail
On October 01, 2016, Landchatch and I arrived at our start point for the Juan de Fuca Trail to continue on our quest of completing the trail. The weather was good and it was not raining to start with. It was near 0800 hours when we started down and our first caches was https://coord.info/GC3QBPB, which is an earth cache. The trail down was good and we hiked in to complete 7 caches ending up at Chin 2 China 4. The trails were not too bad in this section except one small area of mud. We then hiked back up to the truck and and moved the truck down the highway about 2.5 KM's and proceeded down to get back on the trail as well as doing the caches on the way down. This way down took us on a old logging road and then to a goat trail to the beach, this was very steep and one would have to be very careful on this section.
We hiked the trail to Plantman_Geocache #7. The trail over this section was extreamly muddy in sections and can see this being very difficult in the winter months as the rains build as it does in this area. From here we decided to take the trail up to the road doing the two caches along the way. The trail up was in good shape and we ended up on the highway 1.1 KM's from the truck, so it was a lot better than two weeks ago where it was 6.5 KM's back.
Our total hike was 19 KM's, 18 of them on the trails. The views were wonderful and we saw 5 people running the trail and 4 women hiking the trails. We did get some rain a few time through the day but over all it was a great day weather wise.
I bought a pair of Solomon Quest boots at MEC in Victoria and for the first time in a long time, my feet were completely dry. I would recommond these for any kind of hiking. The cost with taxes was about $300.00. We have one more section to do on the Juan de Fuca trail left and plan to complete it in the near future or when the weather will allow. At least that is our goal but it may take us two more visits to this area to complete it. What a wonderful area with great caches.
We hiked the trail to Plantman_Geocache #7. The trail over this section was extreamly muddy in sections and can see this being very difficult in the winter months as the rains build as it does in this area. From here we decided to take the trail up to the road doing the two caches along the way. The trail up was in good shape and we ended up on the highway 1.1 KM's from the truck, so it was a lot better than two weeks ago where it was 6.5 KM's back.
Our total hike was 19 KM's, 18 of them on the trails. The views were wonderful and we saw 5 people running the trail and 4 women hiking the trails. We did get some rain a few time through the day but over all it was a great day weather wise.
I bought a pair of Solomon Quest boots at MEC in Victoria and for the first time in a long time, my feet were completely dry. I would recommond these for any kind of hiking. The cost with taxes was about $300.00. We have one more section to do on the Juan de Fuca trail left and plan to complete it in the near future or when the weather will allow. At least that is our goal but it may take us two more visits to this area to complete it. What a wonderful area with great caches.
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
The Juan de Fuca Trail and area
On Sat. Sept. 10th, Landchatch and I stared to do most of the caches between Sooke and China Beach Parking site, along the water side. It was a wonderful day both weather wise and in our search of those caches that took us up and down the trails to the beaches.
We started out at 0600 ours in Ladysmith and drove to China Beach via the Island highway. In our quest for the day, we managed to find 35 caches with 4 DNF's. We started at China Beack and cached towards Sooke doing a few caches in Sooke before heading home at 1800 hours. It was a long day and we hike well over 15 km,s.
It is our quest to do all of the Juan de Fuca Trail over the next few months depending the weather.
On Sat. Sept. 17th, we decided to start the trail at China Beach and again left ladysmith at 0600 hours and headed for the parking area via the Sooke way. We arrived just before 0800 hours as we stopped for one cache that we had a DNF on last Sat. and searched until we found it, great way to start off the day. We parked about 350 meters on the road near a bridge past the China Beach parking and it saved us a bit of hike. The weather was overcast with a lot of fog and rain but still a nice day. As we started out on the trail, 10 woman hikers were coming from hiking the trail and camping. The 11 km hike took us a little over 4 hours to get back to the road and then had to hike back to the truck took over an hour on the road as we only had one truck this time. The hike back to the truck was a little over 7 KM's. We encountered another 8 hikers/campers along the way.
The trails were in good shape and mostly dry and not too many puddles. The views were wonderful but the fog and rain did limit some of the views of the wonderful area we were in. I can see this trail getting a little tough as the rains become more frequent over the winter. We managed to find the nine caches along this portion of the trail, and two of them had DNF's from the last cachers here.
Our quest is to start where we left of in a few weeks and do another section of the trail and hopefully we can get a few more cachers in order to do a longer section.
I will be adding some photos later on to show the area for you.
After our lunch we started for home heading towards Port Renfrew and out to Lake Cowichan caching along the way finding another 7 caches. This brought our total to 17 cache finds for the day and so happy to get some of the trail done. Geocaching My Way of Life Paulboy
We started out at 0600 ours in Ladysmith and drove to China Beach via the Island highway. In our quest for the day, we managed to find 35 caches with 4 DNF's. We started at China Beack and cached towards Sooke doing a few caches in Sooke before heading home at 1800 hours. It was a long day and we hike well over 15 km,s.
It is our quest to do all of the Juan de Fuca Trail over the next few months depending the weather.
On Sat. Sept. 17th, we decided to start the trail at China Beach and again left ladysmith at 0600 hours and headed for the parking area via the Sooke way. We arrived just before 0800 hours as we stopped for one cache that we had a DNF on last Sat. and searched until we found it, great way to start off the day. We parked about 350 meters on the road near a bridge past the China Beach parking and it saved us a bit of hike. The weather was overcast with a lot of fog and rain but still a nice day. As we started out on the trail, 10 woman hikers were coming from hiking the trail and camping. The 11 km hike took us a little over 4 hours to get back to the road and then had to hike back to the truck took over an hour on the road as we only had one truck this time. The hike back to the truck was a little over 7 KM's. We encountered another 8 hikers/campers along the way.
The trails were in good shape and mostly dry and not too many puddles. The views were wonderful but the fog and rain did limit some of the views of the wonderful area we were in. I can see this trail getting a little tough as the rains become more frequent over the winter. We managed to find the nine caches along this portion of the trail, and two of them had DNF's from the last cachers here.
Our quest is to start where we left of in a few weeks and do another section of the trail and hopefully we can get a few more cachers in order to do a longer section.
I will be adding some photos later on to show the area for you.
After our lunch we started for home heading towards Port Renfrew and out to Lake Cowichan caching along the way finding another 7 caches. This brought our total to 17 cache finds for the day and so happy to get some of the trail done. Geocaching My Way of Life Paulboy
Sunday, 4 September 2016
Paulboy & Cougar Kid's Geocaching Adventure Day # 8
This has been a great trip overall, Our adventure has taken us from Calgary to Medcine Hat, down to Montana, to Lethbridge and back to Calgary for our last day of caching.
Today we did most of the Flames Geo-Art but it was a tough go as a lot of the caches were in need of repairs, many DNF,s and all the caches were little nanos stuck in the ground. One short section we could not drive with our suv. Not what we expected when we got here but not the less we did most of them.
The second section we did was the Dog Pound and it was great series. All the caches were fake rocks with a tube in them and they were all in good shape and dry. We managed to get145 caches today before 1600 hours and heading back to the hotel about an hour away.
In total we travelled over 1000 KM, found about 1300 caches, had two events and got to find/do an amazing cache that was set up for us in Lethbridge. Cougar Kid did all the driving and I did all the runing from the car through the tall grasses avoiding gofer holes. Never did see any rattle snakes and that was a good thing.
This evening we had supper with my good friend, John & Lisa and also my cousin John and his wife Shelley drove from Red Deer to join us.So nice to see everyone.
All that is left is to fly home in a few hours. hope you enjoyed our adventure and thanks for following. Geocahing My Way of Life Paulboy
Today we did most of the Flames Geo-Art but it was a tough go as a lot of the caches were in need of repairs, many DNF,s and all the caches were little nanos stuck in the ground. One short section we could not drive with our suv. Not what we expected when we got here but not the less we did most of them.
The second section we did was the Dog Pound and it was great series. All the caches were fake rocks with a tube in them and they were all in good shape and dry. We managed to get145 caches today before 1600 hours and heading back to the hotel about an hour away.
In total we travelled over 1000 KM, found about 1300 caches, had two events and got to find/do an amazing cache that was set up for us in Lethbridge. Cougar Kid did all the driving and I did all the runing from the car through the tall grasses avoiding gofer holes. Never did see any rattle snakes and that was a good thing.
This evening we had supper with my good friend, John & Lisa and also my cousin John and his wife Shelley drove from Red Deer to join us.So nice to see everyone.
All that is left is to fly home in a few hours. hope you enjoyed our adventure and thanks for following. Geocahing My Way of Life Paulboy
Friday, 2 September 2016
Paulboy & Cougar Kid's Geocaching Adventure # Day 7
This is day seven of the adventure and what a ride it has been. We started early this morning and did almost all urban caches in the Lethbridge area. The weather was not as hot as it has been but none the less warm. We even did a few short hikes in parks around town. We managed to find 85 caches in eirht hours.
We had our second travel event at Pizza Hut and ten cachers showed up, even one from medcine Hat.
We are getting ready for the last day doing PQ updates and trying to get the maxium caches we can on our last day. Also having supper with my old friends John & Lisa and my cousin John and his wife Shelley who are coming from Red Deer tomorrow night. So it is a close for this day and will post our last day tomorrow night with a wrap up on Sunday.
My cache find are now at a new level. My goal for the year was 20,000 and today I made the find. Have a great night.
We had our second travel event at Pizza Hut and ten cachers showed up, even one from medcine Hat.
We are getting ready for the last day doing PQ updates and trying to get the maxium caches we can on our last day. Also having supper with my old friends John & Lisa and my cousin John and his wife Shelley who are coming from Red Deer tomorrow night. So it is a close for this day and will post our last day tomorrow night with a wrap up on Sunday.
My cache find are now at a new level. My goal for the year was 20,000 and today I made the find. Have a great night.
Thursday, 1 September 2016
Paulboy & Cougar Kid's Geocachng Adventure Day 6
Well it was time to say goodbye to Medcine Hat and after a breakfast at the hotel, we set our sights for the Canada/USA border to Montana about 0600 hours. We cached along the way finding about 15 roadside caches. We arrived at the border about 1130 hours and had lunch before crossing into more desert. We cached about 5 hours plus driving and managed to find about 125 USA caches. We were driving through more range roads in a 35+ degree weather and it was some hot running back and forth from the car to the fence line. I think I lost another 5 pounds. We saw a few wild animals and not many humans. We had a chat with a few farmers and they were a lot nicer than the physo bitch we ran into a few days ago. At 1700 hours and still well over 1 1/2 hours of driving to get to the hotel, we called it a day and our day is now over. We will cache the city tomorrow and have our event that evening. Off to bed now as a little tired..My finds to date are 19,974, only 26 to go for 20,000.
Geocaching My Way of Life Paulboy
Geocaching My Way of Life Paulboy
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Paulboy & Cougar Kid's Adventure Day 5
This is day 5 of of 8 and we have now found a total of 995 caches. Today was all city drive ups and a few small drive up side roads Our total today was 95 caches. The temp was at 40 C at one point so lots of water again today. Some of the caches today were a bit tricky but managed to find most of them. After 5 day in Medicine Hat, most of which was great, it is time to move on to Lethbridge early in the morning caching along the way and going to Montana to grab a hundred caches or so.
We had a great supper tonight and now to clean up, pack and get ready for another great day. I am sure I will have a lot more to write tomorrow as we wiil be in so many different places.
My cache finds are now at 19,839, only 161 from 20,000. I suppose it will be Friday before I get to that number..More to come tomorrow..Geocaching My Way of Life Paulboy
We had a great supper tonight and now to clean up, pack and get ready for another great day. I am sure I will have a lot more to write tomorrow as we wiil be in so many different places.
My cache finds are now at 19,839, only 161 from 20,000. I suppose it will be Friday before I get to that number..More to come tomorrow..Geocaching My Way of Life Paulboy
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
Paulboy & Cougar Kid's Adventure Day 4
Day four proved to a little differnt than the last three for sure. It all started out great as we finished the last 50 of the Search series in about an hour and then on to complete the Bear Series. It was just after noon when we finished the 150 on that series so we moved to a different area to do the Heart and maple Leaf Series. We stopped at Heart# 30, found the cache and stopped for lunch.
We had been warned about a silver truck and the driver was following cachers around and not happy about any one being on the roads, legal driving roads. Here is my log from the cache.
LOG-( We started off a little late today and off we went to finish off the Search series, last 50, then we went to complete the Bear head series and completed that just after noon. It was rather a nice day and we looked forward to another great day. We drove to start the Maple leaf and Heart series and were parked at https://coord.info/GC5WR5V, when a lady in a silver Dodge stopped and asked if we were picking those things, I said yes. She drove off and then returned 10 minutes later as we had not moved. We were enjoying lunch, she got out of her truck and had a cache in hand screaming and yelling things I can not post here, threatened bodily harm, said she called the police, when we said we would wait for them she went nuts on us, up in our face and after 5 minutes of yelling, screaming and would not listen to reason. She went to her truck yelling we were on private property and roads and she was going to get a few more pissed off farmers and bring them back. Her face was so red and she was vibrating, we thought she was going to stroke out. At this point we made a decision to move on and lose those 150 caches, now that pisses me off. Please be careful if you are caching that way, you may get run off the road or worst. Did I mention that we will cause fires and take food from her family. There are homes for people like that.
We then did a bunch of caches on the main road and in town bit.
All the caches we found were in good shape. The caches in town were great to find and thank you all for the great caches. We have one more day here and plan to make the best of it, I am a bigger person that one phys-co bitch muggle. Thanks for all the caches and the work it takes to place and maintain them.
Over all we got 177 caches today and maybe a few more tonight.
Geocaching My Way of Geocaching, Paulboy)
So off we went for fear of a gang of pissed off cowboys and a pissed off DB. We cached in town until supper time and did our logs for the day.
At the event last night we got asked if we would like to have a shot at doing a sort of night cache and I would never pass up a chance for a good cache. This cache is called Hand Trap" https://coord.info/GC3TBR5" Look this one up and watch the video. We both found it and it was the best cache I have found to date. The CO and BurgessDidz set it all for us. This was so much fun and being on a time limit is like a pressure cooker. Such a great job, great craftsmenship and attention to detail, flashing lights, music. What a great group of cachers we met last night. Well worth the trip here. I am now at 19,750 cache finds. Thanks for reading and more tomorrow of our last day here.
Geocaching My way of Life Paulboy
We had been warned about a silver truck and the driver was following cachers around and not happy about any one being on the roads, legal driving roads. Here is my log from the cache.
LOG-( We started off a little late today and off we went to finish off the Search series, last 50, then we went to complete the Bear head series and completed that just after noon. It was rather a nice day and we looked forward to another great day. We drove to start the Maple leaf and Heart series and were parked at https://coord.info/GC5WR5V, when a lady in a silver Dodge stopped and asked if we were picking those things, I said yes. She drove off and then returned 10 minutes later as we had not moved. We were enjoying lunch, she got out of her truck and had a cache in hand screaming and yelling things I can not post here, threatened bodily harm, said she called the police, when we said we would wait for them she went nuts on us, up in our face and after 5 minutes of yelling, screaming and would not listen to reason. She went to her truck yelling we were on private property and roads and she was going to get a few more pissed off farmers and bring them back. Her face was so red and she was vibrating, we thought she was going to stroke out. At this point we made a decision to move on and lose those 150 caches, now that pisses me off. Please be careful if you are caching that way, you may get run off the road or worst. Did I mention that we will cause fires and take food from her family. There are homes for people like that.
We then did a bunch of caches on the main road and in town bit.
All the caches we found were in good shape. The caches in town were great to find and thank you all for the great caches. We have one more day here and plan to make the best of it, I am a bigger person that one phys-co bitch muggle. Thanks for all the caches and the work it takes to place and maintain them.
Over all we got 177 caches today and maybe a few more tonight.
Geocaching My Way of Geocaching, Paulboy)
So off we went for fear of a gang of pissed off cowboys and a pissed off DB. We cached in town until supper time and did our logs for the day.
At the event last night we got asked if we would like to have a shot at doing a sort of night cache and I would never pass up a chance for a good cache. This cache is called Hand Trap" https://coord.info/GC3TBR5" Look this one up and watch the video. We both found it and it was the best cache I have found to date. The CO and BurgessDidz set it all for us. This was so much fun and being on a time limit is like a pressure cooker. Such a great job, great craftsmenship and attention to detail, flashing lights, music. What a great group of cachers we met last night. Well worth the trip here. I am now at 19,750 cache finds. Thanks for reading and more tomorrow of our last day here.
Geocaching My way of Life Paulboy
Paulboy & Cougar Kid's Adventure Day 3
This morning was slightly different in that we did not hit the road until closer to 0730 and got our first cache at 0750 hours. Our goal was to complete the Jigsaw Power Trail of 253 caches. The weather was great and it promised to get to 28+ degrees.
It was Cougar kid's birthday today and he keeps telling me he is still young!
As were having breakfast, an older couple ( well they looked older) came into the small eating area and with the usual chit chat that travelers do at motels, began flowing. Then the question two men travelling what to here ":How long have you two been MARRIED". I guess because of Cougar Kid's moustache and my stud like body, I suppose I could see that. After setting them straight, we finished our breaky and hit the road for a day of gay caching.
The roads were long and dusty and the temp was rising. As Cougar Kid drove, I would jump out and run through the ditch to the fence line or post and grab the cache. A lot of the caches were pill bottles that were broken, wet logs and needed maintenance. There was a bit more traffic today but still fairly quite. At least most of the caches were on my side today.
Three deer ran in front of us on the road for a while and then jumped the fence and dissappeared in the rolling feilds. Not long after that, I got out of the car to get the next cache when I realized that the three calfs were not in the fenced fields and had got loose. You guessed it, they were standing at the cache but one hello and off they went down the fence line.
We finished the series by 1400 hours and moved along to the Search Power Trail and did 50 of those caches by 1600 hours. During the caching day we also pcked up a few other type caches along the way. The temp reach 30 at parts of the day, it was so hot on these flat lands. I must admit, we did see a tree!
Now we drove back to the hotel to clean up and get our GPS ready for Day 4 and headed out for our event, "Cougar Kid's Birthday Event".
It was a new Boston Pizza in town. Eight cachers showed up, T.D.M.22, DSK11, Slapshot, Navy People, BurgressKidz and BoBear. It was great to meet everyone and wish Cougar Kid a happy birthday and got some inside info of the area and several of the cache CO's were there. We are going to do a night cache tomorrow that we found out about.
Out total finds for the day was 316 cache finds. It is time to hit the sach to rest my legs and get some much needed sleep.
This adventure is a great one and more caching will continue. Day three is now at a close and in the morning the start of Day 4 is sure to be another adventure. My number of cache finds are now at 19,572and our total finds for the first three days is 637. More tomorrow and happy dreams.
It was Cougar kid's birthday today and he keeps telling me he is still young!
As were having breakfast, an older couple ( well they looked older) came into the small eating area and with the usual chit chat that travelers do at motels, began flowing. Then the question two men travelling what to here ":How long have you two been MARRIED". I guess because of Cougar Kid's moustache and my stud like body, I suppose I could see that. After setting them straight, we finished our breaky and hit the road for a day of gay caching.
The roads were long and dusty and the temp was rising. As Cougar Kid drove, I would jump out and run through the ditch to the fence line or post and grab the cache. A lot of the caches were pill bottles that were broken, wet logs and needed maintenance. There was a bit more traffic today but still fairly quite. At least most of the caches were on my side today.
Three deer ran in front of us on the road for a while and then jumped the fence and dissappeared in the rolling feilds. Not long after that, I got out of the car to get the next cache when I realized that the three calfs were not in the fenced fields and had got loose. You guessed it, they were standing at the cache but one hello and off they went down the fence line.
We finished the series by 1400 hours and moved along to the Search Power Trail and did 50 of those caches by 1600 hours. During the caching day we also pcked up a few other type caches along the way. The temp reach 30 at parts of the day, it was so hot on these flat lands. I must admit, we did see a tree!
Now we drove back to the hotel to clean up and get our GPS ready for Day 4 and headed out for our event, "Cougar Kid's Birthday Event".
It was a new Boston Pizza in town. Eight cachers showed up, T.D.M.22, DSK11, Slapshot, Navy People, BurgressKidz and BoBear. It was great to meet everyone and wish Cougar Kid a happy birthday and got some inside info of the area and several of the cache CO's were there. We are going to do a night cache tomorrow that we found out about.
Out total finds for the day was 316 cache finds. It is time to hit the sach to rest my legs and get some much needed sleep.
This adventure is a great one and more caching will continue. Day three is now at a close and in the morning the start of Day 4 is sure to be another adventure. My number of cache finds are now at 19,572and our total finds for the first three days is 637. More tomorrow and happy dreams.
Sunday, 28 August 2016
Paulboy & Cougar kid's Adventure Day 2
Another day on the range, well a great day on the range, after our 0600 hours breaky at the Motel, gassed up got some ice and goodie and we were off to start our first power trail.
As we have no cooler, I did bring a few garabage bags and we got a box, lined it with the garbage bags and instance cooler for water and Cougar Kids frozen apple.
We drove to our first cache and found our first one @ 0650 hours, Cougar Kid is drive but not wake yet. We could see rain in the distance but we were saved! We managed to find our first 100 caches in two hours and 45 minutes. I am doing all the running, half of them on my side of the road and the rest on the other side of the road. At least there are no hills but did get lost a few times the tall grass. That is a lot of fence post to run to and back. The roads are all gravel but the best I have ever seen, not to much dust. We encountered no wild live, except cows for some reason, What is up with all the cows around here? We only saw two trucks all day and no people. Then there was the BUGS, a few times they had carried Cougar Kid out of the car and were fighting with them. The inside of the car is all red from dead bugs we had to kill.
We had a quick break for lunch and back on the raod for another power trail before going to supper at 1830 hours then a few local town caches around the motel before setting in for the night. After logging in all the caches, it looks like we found 267 caches in total with 3 DNFs. What a great day. I have now reached my 19,000 cache find and my total today is 19,256 cache finds.
It is time to clean up and hit the sac, big day tomorrow, it is Cougar Kid's birthday and we have an event at 1930 hours and we will be doing a another power trail that has 265 caches. We hope to break the 300 mark tomorrow but time will tell.
My last thing to do before bed is tuck Cougar Kid in and read him a bed time story to help him sleep. More to come tomorrow. Paulboy
As we have no cooler, I did bring a few garabage bags and we got a box, lined it with the garbage bags and instance cooler for water and Cougar Kids frozen apple.
We drove to our first cache and found our first one @ 0650 hours, Cougar Kid is drive but not wake yet. We could see rain in the distance but we were saved! We managed to find our first 100 caches in two hours and 45 minutes. I am doing all the running, half of them on my side of the road and the rest on the other side of the road. At least there are no hills but did get lost a few times the tall grass. That is a lot of fence post to run to and back. The roads are all gravel but the best I have ever seen, not to much dust. We encountered no wild live, except cows for some reason, What is up with all the cows around here? We only saw two trucks all day and no people. Then there was the BUGS, a few times they had carried Cougar Kid out of the car and were fighting with them. The inside of the car is all red from dead bugs we had to kill.
We had a quick break for lunch and back on the raod for another power trail before going to supper at 1830 hours then a few local town caches around the motel before setting in for the night. After logging in all the caches, it looks like we found 267 caches in total with 3 DNFs. What a great day. I have now reached my 19,000 cache find and my total today is 19,256 cache finds.
It is time to clean up and hit the sac, big day tomorrow, it is Cougar Kid's birthday and we have an event at 1930 hours and we will be doing a another power trail that has 265 caches. We hope to break the 300 mark tomorrow but time will tell.
My last thing to do before bed is tuck Cougar Kid in and read him a bed time story to help him sleep. More to come tomorrow. Paulboy
Saturday, 27 August 2016
Paulboy & Cougar Kid's Adventure- Day 1
We got up pretty early and our wives drove us to the aiport in Nanaimo to catch the 0600 flight to Calgary, great flight and picked up the car ( Volvo XC60 SUV) , now this is a car. WOW. By the time we got everyting settled, stopped at Timmie's, it was 1002 hours before we got our first cache. The weather was great, not too sunny but warm. We cached along HWY 1 towards Medicine Hat until about 1800 hours. None of the caches stood out too much except for one and a lot of them were in need of maintence. The terran was very dry and it was easy to pick up the caches along the fence line. The drive was great and as most of you know flat. We managed to do the Geo Art 31 for the 31 days of August, it did not take long on these great country dirt roads.
We are now settled in for the night after supper at Joey's Only, love those fish taco's. We have logged in all our caches for today and getting ready to settle down for the night, big day tomorrow. We will start at 0600 hours and have a little catching up to do now, We are now short 144 caches to complete our 200+ a day. More to come tomorrow night, look forward to any and all comments. Paulboy
Thursday, 25 August 2016
It has been a long time since I have done an entry. The geocaching has progressed to levels I never dreamed of. I have been to so many places and caches since March of 2014. Princess! and I went to New Brunswick, Quebec, Prince edward Island and on the way to Moncton, New Brunswick, drove about 40 KM's of our way to the New Brunswick/Nova Scotia border to grab one cache.
On the Island, I have coverd many areas in search of the elusive caches. We have been doing some great hikes, 4 X 4, boat and mountain bikes. I have also traved to Washington and Oregon to find the first plaque cache. I have been to the Vancouver and area to do a lot of the dyke caches on mountain bikes, such a beautiful area and way to cache.
This fall and winter I have plans to do a lot of the Sooke hills and area. I suppose this depends on how much snow there is. In November, Princess! and I are going to my childhood home in Campbellton, New Brunswick to visit my Mom. My Dad passed three and a half months ago at almost 94 years, so time with Mom is even more important now. After a week with Mom in Campbellton, New Brunswick, we are off to Halifax, Nova Scotia for a week. I Joined the Navy in 1969 and was posted to Halifax after basic training and was on the HMCS Terra Nova. I was then transfered to Esquiltmalt on the HMCS Terra Nova in 1971 and remained out here till now. I t will be nice to see this city again but this time, geocaching is on the agenda.
My intention is to start up this blog once every two to three weeks going forward and after each big adventure or during the adventure.
My Geocaching finds are at 18,926 and my goal for the year has been to reach 20,000 finds.
On August 27/16, I have organized a fild trip for Cougar Kid and I. At 0600 hours we fly out of Nanaimo Airport for Calgary, renting a car and caching to Medicine Hat, remaining there for 5 days caching all the Geo Art that has built up in this area. On the 6th day we will cache our way to Lethbridge for two days to cache some trails there as well as going to Montana if we can cross over with the rental car for a few trails in two small towns there. On the 8th day we will head back to Calgary, again caching along the way and then do the Flames Geo art and more if time permits.
I am having an event on August 28 to celebrate Couga Kid,s birthday. https://coord.info/GC6MF52
and one in Lethbridge on September 02, https://coord.info/GC6P1W6.
If anyone wishes to leave a birthday wish for Cougar Kid (AKA Bob), add a coment before the date and I will pass on your comments at the event.
This should be a great Geocaching Adventure for both of us, a much needed rest and our intention is to try and get about 200 caches a day.
I will blog each night about our days adventure and look forward to your comments.
Geocaching My way of Life Paulboy
On the Island, I have coverd many areas in search of the elusive caches. We have been doing some great hikes, 4 X 4, boat and mountain bikes. I have also traved to Washington and Oregon to find the first plaque cache. I have been to the Vancouver and area to do a lot of the dyke caches on mountain bikes, such a beautiful area and way to cache.
This fall and winter I have plans to do a lot of the Sooke hills and area. I suppose this depends on how much snow there is. In November, Princess! and I are going to my childhood home in Campbellton, New Brunswick to visit my Mom. My Dad passed three and a half months ago at almost 94 years, so time with Mom is even more important now. After a week with Mom in Campbellton, New Brunswick, we are off to Halifax, Nova Scotia for a week. I Joined the Navy in 1969 and was posted to Halifax after basic training and was on the HMCS Terra Nova. I was then transfered to Esquiltmalt on the HMCS Terra Nova in 1971 and remained out here till now. I t will be nice to see this city again but this time, geocaching is on the agenda.
My intention is to start up this blog once every two to three weeks going forward and after each big adventure or during the adventure.
My Geocaching finds are at 18,926 and my goal for the year has been to reach 20,000 finds.
On August 27/16, I have organized a fild trip for Cougar Kid and I. At 0600 hours we fly out of Nanaimo Airport for Calgary, renting a car and caching to Medicine Hat, remaining there for 5 days caching all the Geo Art that has built up in this area. On the 6th day we will cache our way to Lethbridge for two days to cache some trails there as well as going to Montana if we can cross over with the rental car for a few trails in two small towns there. On the 8th day we will head back to Calgary, again caching along the way and then do the Flames Geo art and more if time permits.
I am having an event on August 28 to celebrate Couga Kid,s birthday. https://coord.info/GC6MF52
and one in Lethbridge on September 02, https://coord.info/GC6P1W6.
If anyone wishes to leave a birthday wish for Cougar Kid (AKA Bob), add a coment before the date and I will pass on your comments at the event.
This should be a great Geocaching Adventure for both of us, a much needed rest and our intention is to try and get about 200 caches a day.
I will blog each night about our days adventure and look forward to your comments.
Geocaching My way of Life Paulboy
Tuesday, 2 September 2014
On the Island Again
Once we arrived home from New Brunswick and settled in it was on to Vancouver Island caching again. Did a day of caching with Cougar Kid on the off road motorcycles up and around Mount Washington for a day, the weather was much better and the views were great this time up. Did a day trip up to the Carmanah Valley to do and old rail bed with 4 old train trestles from the very early 1900's. They removed the steel from the trestles so you have to hike up and down the valleys of sort. Most of them are in place so it is great for pictures but not walking on. I would recommend this area for anyone to see it's greatness and history as well. JuRuu and LifeAboveAll were with me on this trip.
Had my OAP-65 event on the 23 of August and about 80 cachers and friends attended in Ladysmith at Aggie Hall/Fields. We all had fun and a lot of good gag gifts. A great way to spend ones milestone birthday.
Our Sunday Caching Group has been doing some great hikes and day trips. On the 31st of August, we headed for Saturna Island. This was a long day trip, up at 0200 hours, picked up by JuRuu at 0300 hours, then we picked up Classictwo at 0315 hours and then off we went to pick up Sheesh695 about 0300 hours. I was already tired but we pushed on to the ferry terminal at Schwartz Ferry and arrived there at 0500 hours. Once on the ferry, we planned our course of action and away we went, we hiked for two hours across the ridge, then came back to the terminal area form a few caches and picked up Diraduck at 1005 hours, she sleeps in. We spent the day caching the whole Island, hiking, driving finding every cache on the Island, 67 in total. It was a grand day and I think the views were some of the most spectacular I have ever seen, this is a place cachers and non cachers should go for a day trip. We caught the 2135 hours ferry home and arrived back home at 0130 on Monday, a long great day.
Trying to reach 16,000 before December 31, 2014, but may be a little hard as the weather changes.
May be going to Mount Arrowsmith this coming Sunday and will post if we do go there..
Happy Caching and happy trails..
Geoaching My Way of Life Paulboy
Had my OAP-65 event on the 23 of August and about 80 cachers and friends attended in Ladysmith at Aggie Hall/Fields. We all had fun and a lot of good gag gifts. A great way to spend ones milestone birthday.
Our Sunday Caching Group has been doing some great hikes and day trips. On the 31st of August, we headed for Saturna Island. This was a long day trip, up at 0200 hours, picked up by JuRuu at 0300 hours, then we picked up Classictwo at 0315 hours and then off we went to pick up Sheesh695 about 0300 hours. I was already tired but we pushed on to the ferry terminal at Schwartz Ferry and arrived there at 0500 hours. Once on the ferry, we planned our course of action and away we went, we hiked for two hours across the ridge, then came back to the terminal area form a few caches and picked up Diraduck at 1005 hours, she sleeps in. We spent the day caching the whole Island, hiking, driving finding every cache on the Island, 67 in total. It was a grand day and I think the views were some of the most spectacular I have ever seen, this is a place cachers and non cachers should go for a day trip. We caught the 2135 hours ferry home and arrived back home at 0130 on Monday, a long great day.
Trying to reach 16,000 before December 31, 2014, but may be a little hard as the weather changes.
May be going to Mount Arrowsmith this coming Sunday and will post if we do go there..
Happy Caching and happy trails..
Geoaching My Way of Life Paulboy
Saturday, 9 August 2014
The New Brunswick End!
As I sit in the Montreal Airport, I thought I would end this chapter of my visit to NB. I managed to get about 150 caches, mostly in the morning early, but Princess! and I did go to Quebec for a day, Amqui, a small town about 90 KM's away from Campbellton New Brunswick. It was a beautiful drive along a river all the way. managed to get a few caches and a letterbox for my 7 days of August. My sister, Indynb and I went to Bathurst for a day of caching. We started out on HWY 11 doing a power trail, NOT, this is considered a HWY power trail, all caches were about 30 to 60 meters through wet road side swamp and thick bush. We did this for about 4 hours and then back to Bathurst for some urban caching. A lot of these were a little tough but better than the power trail. Most cachers do not give hints or put clues on the cache page.
But over all it was a good time and look forward to my next trip here.
On the way to the airport this morning we had a few hours to kill so we grabbed 9 caches in the Bathurst area and near the airport.
Happy Geocaching . Geocaching My Way of Life Paulboy
But over all it was a good time and look forward to my next trip here.
On the way to the airport this morning we had a few hours to kill so we grabbed 9 caches in the Bathurst area and near the airport.
Happy Geocaching . Geocaching My Way of Life Paulboy
Wednesday, 6 August 2014
Day Five in New Brunswick
Things are moving along great with the caching in the early morning. Doing a lot of headlamp caching until the sun comes up. We had our event last night and most of the people that showed up were french which was different from our events on the west coast. But most of them speak English as well. Half of them were from the Quebec side of the river. Lots of fun as usual. As I have five of the August souvenirs and no letterbox for 200 KM's around, I thought I would have to wait to get back to BC to finish but one of the cachers from Amqui, Quebec, about 80 KM's away has has a letter box there so Princess and I are heading there about 0900 hours this morning for the cache and a little site seeing as well. As I did a PQ it is apparent that all the caches are in french but I am able to translate most of what I need. Although I was brought up here, it is an area I have not visited yet, so should be fun. I never did check that area for a letter box, so the event paid off. I will do a new log later to let you know how it went..Happy caching .
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