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
Saturday, 9 August 2014
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 .
Monday, 4 August 2014
Caching In New Brunswick
Arrived after a long flight and on the way home, I just had to grab one not to far from the Airport. I have been caching early in the morning in Campbellton and area, mostly my sister's (Indynb), caches. I usually leave about 0500 hours and cache in the dark for a while with a head lamp until the light breaks. It sure is different here, mostly no clues but they are almost all hanging, winter friendly they call it. If you ask any other cacher, even my sister for a clue, you would think you asked then for a $1000.00.
Did some caching in Quebec this morning and the same goes for their caches except a lot of them are in french but some of them are french as well as English. The fir trees rip your hands and arms apart and I have a few scrapes on my head as well.
All together having fun visiting with the parents and the early caching is a blast. On Thursday, Indynb and I are going down towards Bathurst for a day of caching but for some reason, I think it will not be as long as I hope it is, but it will be good to cache with my little sister.
I have managed to find about 75 caches so far and have three souvenirs for the challenge this month and my event will give me 4 plus a virtual will give me 5 tomorrow.
I will post another note on Friday before the end of the day happy caching.
Did some caching in Quebec this morning and the same goes for their caches except a lot of them are in french but some of them are french as well as English. The fir trees rip your hands and arms apart and I have a few scrapes on my head as well.
All together having fun visiting with the parents and the early caching is a blast. On Thursday, Indynb and I are going down towards Bathurst for a day of caching but for some reason, I think it will not be as long as I hope it is, but it will be good to cache with my little sister.
I have managed to find about 75 caches so far and have three souvenirs for the challenge this month and my event will give me 4 plus a virtual will give me 5 tomorrow.
I will post another note on Friday before the end of the day happy caching.
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
New Brunswick or Bust
Hello Fellow cachers,
What a great summer we are having for hitting the trails. have been doing a lot of hiking, mountain biking and off road motorcycle. It seems like not so much city caching anymore, could that be because I have done most of them?
Well, tomorrow Princess! and I are heading to New Brunswick to visit the parents and do a little caching as well. We are hosting an event on August 5th in Campbellton NB on the pier, a place I used to watch my grandfather work as a longshoreman and played there as well. Looking forward to meeting the local cachers and a number of Quebec cachers as it is only a KM to the Quebec side.
My sister, Indynb, who I got into caching two years ago will be there as well. We hope to get a few days of caching in. I suppose I will head out every morning to cache about 0430 and head back about 0800 to wake up Princess! Most of the caches will have the same hint, "Winter Friendly" which means 6 feet or more up a tree, I may need a ladder for some of them. I will post every few days on my caching experience in the East.
Happy caching.. Paulboy
What a great summer we are having for hitting the trails. have been doing a lot of hiking, mountain biking and off road motorcycle. It seems like not so much city caching anymore, could that be because I have done most of them?
Well, tomorrow Princess! and I are heading to New Brunswick to visit the parents and do a little caching as well. We are hosting an event on August 5th in Campbellton NB on the pier, a place I used to watch my grandfather work as a longshoreman and played there as well. Looking forward to meeting the local cachers and a number of Quebec cachers as it is only a KM to the Quebec side.
My sister, Indynb, who I got into caching two years ago will be there as well. We hope to get a few days of caching in. I suppose I will head out every morning to cache about 0430 and head back about 0800 to wake up Princess! Most of the caches will have the same hint, "Winter Friendly" which means 6 feet or more up a tree, I may need a ladder for some of them. I will post every few days on my caching experience in the East.
Happy caching.. Paulboy
Sunday, 13 July 2014
15,000 and counting
As I near my 15,000 cache find, I find my self in Campbell River visiting the Outlaws . I brought my Geohonda with me for caching. I needed 87 caches to reach my goal and have two days to find these caches. I headed out at 0530 hours with bike in tow and parked at Willis road at the start of the DBM, Duncan Bay Mainline logging road and headed out. It was so quite and peaceful and not a sole around.
About 0700 hours a beat up 4X4 came off a side road and asked me how to get to Courtenay. He had most of his windows smashed out and the body was a mess. He took my directions and off he went.
At the morning progressed, it got real hot and the dust was thick, even going to grab caches was dusty, the trees and bushes were covered in dust. By 1030 hours, I had managed to find 85 caches. I was running out of water so I headed back to the truck and watered up and finished up the other side of the DBM and a few caches in town. It is now noon and very hot and I managed to grab 97 caches. So in the end, I reached my goal of finding my 15,000 cache find before heading to New Brunswick at the end of the month.
My OAP event is coming up on August 23rd in Ladysmith, hope to see everyone there. More to come soon and happy caching everyone.
About 0700 hours a beat up 4X4 came off a side road and asked me how to get to Courtenay. He had most of his windows smashed out and the body was a mess. He took my directions and off he went.
At the morning progressed, it got real hot and the dust was thick, even going to grab caches was dusty, the trees and bushes were covered in dust. By 1030 hours, I had managed to find 85 caches. I was running out of water so I headed back to the truck and watered up and finished up the other side of the DBM and a few caches in town. It is now noon and very hot and I managed to grab 97 caches. So in the end, I reached my goal of finding my 15,000 cache find before heading to New Brunswick at the end of the month.
My OAP event is coming up on August 23rd in Ladysmith, hope to see everyone there. More to come soon and happy caching everyone.
Thursday, 3 July 2014
Always Caching
I have not done a post for some time but it is time do write a short post for the start of summer. Since my return from the Vegas trip, I have joined up with the Sunday Caching Group (SCG), we meet most Sundays that we can and do some pretty wild hikes to mountain tops and we have been also looking for a lot of the old Team caches on the Island. I have also been out on the off road Hondas with Cougar Kid every few weeks for some great days of caching mostly on the off roads between Courtenay & Campbell River off the DBM line. I have also been out a with JuRuu doing some hiking on the trails and some urban caching as well. I put together a group to hike the Wesley Ridge a few weeks ago behind Cameron Lake. There were 13 caches on this hike which started up to 600 meters then across the ridge and then down at 900 meters. Going down was the hardest as some of the areas we had to come down via ropes.It took us about 8.5 hours to complete. Some of the trails were not really trails but rather follow the pink ribbon through the woods. The views were so spectacular. It with a great hike with a great crew. It was a good idea that we parked a car at either end of the lake!
Not too much in the works for the rest of the summer but a few hikes in the fall are falling into place, like Mount Arrowsmith.
Princess! & I are heading to New Brunswick in less that a month and I will be caching there as well a little in Quebec which is just across the bridge form where I grew up, Campbellton, NB. It is certainly a different type of caching there as most caches have to be winter friendly, if that is possible. Princess! and I are having an event when we are in NB as there are not many events or cachers in the area. Looking forward to our trip there as it will be nice to see my parents and family.
My numbers are climbing and I am 112 caches away from 15,000.
I will be posting while in NB so anyone who is are interested can read about my caching there.
Paulboy
Not too much in the works for the rest of the summer but a few hikes in the fall are falling into place, like Mount Arrowsmith.
Princess! & I are heading to New Brunswick in less that a month and I will be caching there as well a little in Quebec which is just across the bridge form where I grew up, Campbellton, NB. It is certainly a different type of caching there as most caches have to be winter friendly, if that is possible. Princess! and I are having an event when we are in NB as there are not many events or cachers in the area. Looking forward to our trip there as it will be nice to see my parents and family.
My numbers are climbing and I am 112 caches away from 15,000.
Paulboy
Friday, 21 March 2014
All Home
Hello my friends, well this has been an interesting trip to say the least.
We returned our cars to the rental shop, caught the shuttle to the airport about 0800 hours for our 11:11 flight on ALLEGIANT AIR, and it was just after 1700 hours before we got on the plane. We were told by a customer service agent that this is very common and that it is to do with pilots having to rest between trips and they are short staffed. We did save a few dollars with this trip but never again will I fly this airline.
It was a long, hard and rewarding trip. The days were long, sometimes up by 3am, off to breakfast and then drive for as long as 4.5 hours or an hour or so to get to GZ for the day. After 6 or 7 hours we would stop for a quick lunch on the side of the trail/road then carry on. Three of the nights we had events, so getting back to the hotels were sometimes later than we wanted. Hiking in the desert is certainly different that hiking in the hills on Vancouver Island.
Met a lot of interesting cachers along the route from all over the place, cachers travel far and wide to end up in Vegas to do the ET HWY. We stayed one night in Racheal so that those that were not with us last year could experience the ET hype down there.
Our events were well attended and the spots I had picked turned out to be great with some awsome food and great service. A couple from Ontario that attended last years CIA event, were back this year. We brought a few prizes along and it seemed like this is not the norm in this part of the states.
In total we managed to find 3242 caches in 8 days and our biggest day was 1044 caches.
Would I do this again, I certainly would but a few changes would certainly be in order. These type of trips take a lot of planning and lack of sleep is the norm.
It is a good time of year to go to this area, hot and sunny but still a little chilly in the mornings and no snakes or small critters or none that we saw. We did encounter a bit of flash flooding, it can be kind of scary and dangerous at the same time.
I think the most interesting place had to be Belmont near the end of the ET HWY. This is a Ghost town with a very old cemetery from the early 1800. There are about 10 people that live here and the bar is out of this world. We were so lucky as it was open and we got to meet the owners.
I took a week off to get some much needed sleep and spend time with Princess! I got out last weekend with the Sunday Caching Group and did two new caches in Nanaimo this week and looking forward to getting out this weekend on the off road motorcycles with Cougar Kid on the logging roads if the rains hold off. Then on Sunday, out with the Sunday Caching Group in Port Alberni. On the trails again.
My next big adventure is a trip this August to New Brunswick to celebrate my OAP year with my parents and do some caching in my home town area. My sister, Indynb, has placed over 80 caches in the area.
I will be holding an event in late August in Ladysmith called "Paulboy's OAP Event". It will be my 65th birthday and hopefully it will attract a lot of cachers, a mega would be nice, LOL. Look for the listing sometime in late May.
I would like to thank the team, 8-IC, JuRuu, crkayaker, Cougar Kid, Sheesh695, Losthiker123 & Bornwild62, for being part of the team. Classictwo had to bow out at the last moment and her husband was serious ill and she was missed big time by all of us. I am happy to say, Doug is now home and doing great. and will be on the trails soon.
Hope to see you all on the trails, happy caching and be careful. Cachers are some of the greatest people in the world!
Paulboy
We returned our cars to the rental shop, caught the shuttle to the airport about 0800 hours for our 11:11 flight on ALLEGIANT AIR, and it was just after 1700 hours before we got on the plane. We were told by a customer service agent that this is very common and that it is to do with pilots having to rest between trips and they are short staffed. We did save a few dollars with this trip but never again will I fly this airline.
It was a long, hard and rewarding trip. The days were long, sometimes up by 3am, off to breakfast and then drive for as long as 4.5 hours or an hour or so to get to GZ for the day. After 6 or 7 hours we would stop for a quick lunch on the side of the trail/road then carry on. Three of the nights we had events, so getting back to the hotels were sometimes later than we wanted. Hiking in the desert is certainly different that hiking in the hills on Vancouver Island.
Met a lot of interesting cachers along the route from all over the place, cachers travel far and wide to end up in Vegas to do the ET HWY. We stayed one night in Racheal so that those that were not with us last year could experience the ET hype down there.
Our events were well attended and the spots I had picked turned out to be great with some awsome food and great service. A couple from Ontario that attended last years CIA event, were back this year. We brought a few prizes along and it seemed like this is not the norm in this part of the states.
In total we managed to find 3242 caches in 8 days and our biggest day was 1044 caches.
Would I do this again, I certainly would but a few changes would certainly be in order. These type of trips take a lot of planning and lack of sleep is the norm.
It is a good time of year to go to this area, hot and sunny but still a little chilly in the mornings and no snakes or small critters or none that we saw. We did encounter a bit of flash flooding, it can be kind of scary and dangerous at the same time.
I think the most interesting place had to be Belmont near the end of the ET HWY. This is a Ghost town with a very old cemetery from the early 1800. There are about 10 people that live here and the bar is out of this world. We were so lucky as it was open and we got to meet the owners.
I took a week off to get some much needed sleep and spend time with Princess! I got out last weekend with the Sunday Caching Group and did two new caches in Nanaimo this week and looking forward to getting out this weekend on the off road motorcycles with Cougar Kid on the logging roads if the rains hold off. Then on Sunday, out with the Sunday Caching Group in Port Alberni. On the trails again.
My next big adventure is a trip this August to New Brunswick to celebrate my OAP year with my parents and do some caching in my home town area. My sister, Indynb, has placed over 80 caches in the area.
I will be holding an event in late August in Ladysmith called "Paulboy's OAP Event". It will be my 65th birthday and hopefully it will attract a lot of cachers, a mega would be nice, LOL. Look for the listing sometime in late May.
I would like to thank the team, 8-IC, JuRuu, crkayaker, Cougar Kid, Sheesh695, Losthiker123 & Bornwild62, for being part of the team. Classictwo had to bow out at the last moment and her husband was serious ill and she was missed big time by all of us. I am happy to say, Doug is now home and doing great. and will be on the trails soon.
Hope to see you all on the trails, happy caching and be careful. Cachers are some of the greatest people in the world!
Paulboy
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