Bernie’s Traveling GeoCache
Bernie’s Traveling GeoCache GC2179 will be making an appearance at the following events.
- Breakfast In The Sticks GC3G043
- Cache Hiding 101 GC3GKGV
- Mug Up On The Marsh GC3HX5F
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The following day Bernie’s Traveling GeoCache will be en route to Bathurst. If anyone from the area would like to get together before it is re-hid please indicate your interest below. One way or the other you will have your chance to find Bernie’s Traveling GeoCache soon enough 🙂
It was 2 years ago this month since Bernie was last here, I had it for about a week before handing it over to someone in Fredericton I think. Many of the “older cachers” will have already found it but many of the newer cachers will be looking forward to it. It is pretty cool and so rare.
I had it brought to my house. Very cool gesture by Rev and Zor, as I had just gotten out of the hospital.
It should be noted that travelling geocaches are no longer approved but the ones in existence are grandfathered. We have signed two of them.
As I recall, the owner of Bernie would prefer that Bernie be hidden and that cachers go out and retrieve it, but he has reluctantly realized that everyone wants to see it and sign the log , so it gets most of its finds at events.
Here is our Bernie story, for those who didnt hear about it before.
In April 2010 we took nearly 3 weeks to drive to Ottawa. We started with the big events in Fredericton where Zor gave us Bernie at the Sunday brunch.
We cached the following week and our next stop was a big event the following weekend in Sherbrooke for Opus Terra. I had let it be known that we had Bernie so here is what happened.
It didn’t take long for people to start asking about Bernie and when someone made the big announcement, there was a line-up to sign. Over 30 cachers signed the log book, including Opus Terra who had missed him on Bernie’s previous trip. WE shouldn’t have been surprised with the interest. The previous day we had been surprised by two cachers at a cache while on our way to Sherbrooke. They were two of the organizers for the event. When they found out who we were, they asked to sign Bernie right away rather than wait for the event, and I had to dig Bernie out of the trunk of the car.
The next week we cached in the area and the next weekend we showed up in Quebec City for an event for Sunnygirls. Again cachers knew we were coming and lined up to sign. One cacher drove from Montreal, signed the log, and stayed 15 minutes and drove immediately back to Montreal.
The next weekend we went to two events in Ottawa area. At the breakfast event, everyone knew we had Bernie and he was excitedly grabbed from my hands as I walked through the restaurant. That evening was the big OMAX event in Gatineau with at least 200 cachers in attendance. Bernie was again a big hit. We left it there with a local cacher.
Last seen on my parents lawn in South Tetagouche… N 47° 34.760 W 065° 55.290
I am in Bathurst this weekend, so I can pick it up and bring it back down, if required. Otherwise, I’ll leave it for someone else.