Part 2 Fall 2010 – 800 caches

This is the second part of our fall caching adventures and is meant to be only an overview.  In future installments I plan on giving more details about the caches in the areas visited and maybe costs and hotel rates, etc.

We geocache all year but Fall is our most prolific caching season, followed by Spring.  In autumn the tourists are gone,  the roads are quiet, the bugs are sleepy, and the offseason rates are in effect.  This fall we found 800 caches (880 if we count last week of August). We do not set goals and we do not go for  numbers. We geocache for the fun and to stay busy and keep fit and the numbers keep rising.     I must say first of all that we had a wonderful time.  The caching was incredible with a diversity of caching including, trails, backroads, towns, cities, highways, lampposts, etc.  But where did these numbers come from? 

In the fall we watch the weather and if there are a few good days ahead, we plan short geocaching trips of a few days to nearby places.  This fall we had a 3 day caching trip to PEI in October, a 4 day trip to PEI in November, a 2 day trip (including a breakfast event) in Fredericton in November and a 3 day trip to Saint John in December.  We do not go for big numbers during these trips, as we only start after breakfast and we usually stop before dark ( maybe around 4pm in November). We try to turn the trips into mini-vacations by taking hotels with a pool and hot tub.  It is off season so hotel rates are lower.

We also plan day trips in the fall. Belladan accompanied us on a number of these adventures  This year this included a few hiking/caching day trips to the Fundy Wilderness (and the Catamount trail) west of Fundy National Park.  We also had a day of caching on the Amherst Shore in Nova Scotia and two trips to the Joggins area of Nova Scotia.  We also had two different days caching west of Petitcodiac in the area between highway 1 and highway 2, ending up in Sussex on both days. And of course, the Moncton area cachers kept us busy with new caches.

In September we flew to Disney World in Florida but got no caches because we stayed exclusively on the Disney World site and we had previously claimed all the virtual caches there.  However,  we decided to fly out of Ottawa, so took a few days to get there and to get back home and we also cached in the Ottawa/Gatineau area.  So we actually were able to get 120 finds during the  trip.

Bottom line is that life is good when you can go geocaching.