The Most Memorable Caching Stories
One of the things that many geocachers like to do is share stories of their geocaching adventures whether they be in New Brunswick or elsewhere. We tend to share the funniest or the most interesting of our finds. It doesn’t necessarily mean that the cache itself was all that notable, but the experience we had finding it, or not finding it is.
For some reason, I found myself recently remembering about a cache I actually didn’t find but I did find. I’m referring to GC1AJCJ. This was a cache that I went for during an afternoon off while on the road for work. It was in a really nice park area and I thoroughly enjoyed the walk to it. Problem was, when I finally did get to the area, I didn’t find the cache. But after talking to my wife about what had happened, she suggested I email the owner and tell him what I had done and see what he came back with. It was back in May of 2008 and I had only been caching for about 6 months. Here’s the original email I sent to the cache owner:
Hey there. I wanted to ask you something about your cache, Marsh Rat.
Is there an actual toy mouse or something in a log that is the cache? I was in that area looking for caches and I went towards this one and I thought I knew where it was, but I saw what looked like eyes from a mouse or rat inside a log. So, I took a photo of it and when I got back to my hotel, I looked at the picture and it looks like a plastic toy. Is this the cache itself, or did I perhaps take a picture of an actual mouse? If it is the cache, I can send you the photo to verify I was actually there, and I would log it as a find. Please let me know. Thanks.
Within a day or so, I got a reply from the owner. Here’s how it read:
Hi there, yourself,
First off, I must thank you for making me laugh so hard at reading your post.Thanks for making me laugh so much. Yes, by all means, go and log this one as a “FOUND IT” You DID FIND IT!!! It is a toy rat, with a 35mm film canister in it’s belly. You do deserve a smiley on this one!! Marsh Rat is one of three such caches that I own.
I look at caching this way….. Any one can place a film canister in the woods, but it’s what you do with that film canister that makes the differance.I try to place caches with a different twist on them…just to make them a little more fun. If you try for any more of my caches..you should be some what pre warned. Hope that you enjoyed your time caching down here with us.
~highland ranger
I logged my find (GL1JEKHP) and that cache and experience stuck with me.
What are some of your more memorable caching stories that stick out in your mind?
I also remember finding a caache like that. I did grab it though. I knew it was fake though.
I will have to think about this aa bit. I have made tons of postings over the years on many sites about our adventures. Often it seems there is always a story to tell.
For example how about a local cacher going for a couple of caches in the woods and parking behind a car and an SUV with tinted glass and finding out that there was some noon hour hanky panky going on. The cache owner advised him that those two vehicles were also there when the cache was placed.
I wrote many items in the past that had a theme of CACHING WAY OF LIFE. When caching is an important part of your life, you have many stories to tell and I have told many.
We are retired and have a number of caching adventures every year. We take many caching trips and incorporate geocaching into our non caching trips.
A look at a caching map of South Eastern NB shows how lucky we are in this area. Another great advantage of this area is that we are so close to PEI. The Island is only 5680 square kms and has 6500 active geocaches. We take a few trips over there every year in the off season to grab caches. We were over there again this week with a main goal of finishing off a section of the Confederation Trail (CT)cache series in the Tignish area. (BTW I think there are now over 1700 caches on the CT).
For those interested in off season costs, we stayed at the Travellers Inn on Highway 2 at Summerside for $59. per night. It is not a fancy place, but it is very clean, has a free hot breakfast, wi-fi and a pool. We have stayed there a number of times in the past, when it was an Econo Lodge.
In order to give a feel for caching on PEI and the variety available there,, here is a summary of our logs for our 4 days on the western section of the island.
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Day 1 of our latest PEI trip.
We thought we would get past Summerside today but there were just too many caches slowing us down. We spent the day driving down red dirt roads between farm fields and down to secluded beaches with incredible views and the sound of crashing waves. We finished the day with short walks in the Summerside area.
It was a fun day. Thank you to everyone
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Day 2 of our latest PEI trip.
All kinds of geocaching fun today.
*P & G’s , many over deep ditches or on soft muddy ground
*A few challenging caches
*Finally got to find some of the puzzle caches we have solved.
*Went down a few more red dirt roads
*Hiked down a trail to find caches even though the trail became a bog and a bushwack.
*Found a number of the caches along the Grand River, with some bushwacking and some beach walking
*Discovered the trails and caches in the Demo woodlot after bushwacking from the Grand River caches.
*Came back to Summerside and biked to 20 caches on the Confederation trail
*Found some urban caches, including a fun multi.
It was a fun day. Thank you to everyone
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Day 3 of our latest PEI trip.
All kinds of geocaching fun today.
Headed up from Summerside to get our few remaining CT caches towards Tignish but of course caches on the way were calling to us. So here is our day.
*MA argued with a squirrel over possession of a cavity in a small stump. We moved the cache
*P & G’s
*A few challenging caches
*Found some more of the puzzle caches we have solved.
*Went down a few more red dirt roads
*Found a Timmys with a cache near OLeary
*Finally got to the CT near Tignish to do 22 more caches on bike.
*Climbed up a high stump and looked deep inside for a cache and disturbed a family of raccoons.
*Went down Port Hill Station Road to find the cache series. We combined driving and walking to get them
*Came back to Summerside and found a few urban caches
It was a fun day. Thank you to everyone
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Day 4 and the final day of our latest PEI trip.
All kinds of geocaching fun today.
Headed up from Summerside to the Evangeline Region for our first attempt at the over 200 caches on the trails, and forestry roads and ATV trails, and nearby red dirt roads.
*We first started a couple of long series on trails and walked 10 kms through the woods to get the caches. The trails were mostly good walking but a couple of boggy sections and wet ditches next to the trails contributed to wet feet and muddy shoes. It was actually quite an invigorating morning.
*Went down Cannontown road to find a cache series. We combined driving and walking to get them.
*Found two more of the PEI puzzle caches we have solved.
*Went down a few more red dirt roads
Around 1:30 pm we came out of the woods and headed home.
It was a fun day. Thank you to everyone
Did some maintenance today. Here is a great story at our Lobster cache. I was totally amazed.
http://coord.info/GLB883XN