The Light at the End of the Tunnel Seemed Brighter.

Caching in Brentwood Bay, BC

 We are 34 days into our challenge and things arn't looking so good. We must maintain an average of 84 finds each month to attain our goal. In this time i have only located 51 caches, while Sarah-Bellum has found 52. Not a great start...

I met the cacher Sole Seeker at work on Wednesday April 27th/11. I asked him how many caches he can get done in a day. He told me he once found 630 caches in 24 hours. WOW. He assured me that the more caching I do, the easier it will be to find a cache once at the cache location. After viewing his profile he has logged over 17,000 caches in six years. I cannot imagine ever logging that many caches in the same amount of time. All in all, he was a very nice guy and I actually felt honoured to meet him. Sort of like meeting some one famous.

We have had a few accomplishments. We had visited RACE10: The Bone Yard (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=4644a8dd-a274-4cca-9d66-b751b6ff4f64) two previous times before finally making the find! Okay we cheated, I called THE GEOKNIGHTS for help, and with those tips we found the cache. We had looked right at the cache container so many times, that I became instantly furious upon discovery. As well as finding SSS (Sidney Spin String) (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=5ccf43dd-e58f-4e98-bf8c-4d79af423fe9), we had to really stop and think about how the name came into play with the the cache location.

On Sunday May 1st, we had set out around eleven am to log some caches. We had started our day off heading toward down town Victoria. Once at Mile Zero in Beacon Hill Park, we turned on our GPS to discover none of the GPX files had actually downloaded. We had turned around to log some caches near home. We had to leave our first cache un found as we spent over twenty minutes trying to locate it. We  have noticed our procedure in locating a cache has changed since we have first started. Instead of searching for ground zero, we get close and then start searching for possible locations for the cache to be or going to what the hint describes. I'm sure that these are standard actions for most, we had to learn them the hard way.



"Tying our shoe laces" for
several minutes

 The great summer weather seems to bring on more muggles to popular areas. We had to tie our shoes for several minutes at Island View Beach to uncover, open, sign the logbook and re hide it in its hiding spot.

Even with a rough start we had a rather fruitful day in comparison to previous days spent caching. We had managed to log 16 caches. Yes I know some may find that on their drive home from work, but I am proud to find an increase in my one day find totals.

We began our challenge on April first, accompanied by my mother. It was her first time caching. We are going to return to the Beacon Hill Park with my mother for another full day of logging caches. Hopefully she does not check in on this blog as I had completely forgotten it was mothers day this coming Sunday (May 8th 2011). I guess things panned out...

Every May long weekend we head out into the bush for a 5 day long camping trip. I have recently learned that on our drive up past Youbou, we will pass the oldest active cache placed on Vancouver Island. I am counting the days until we can log Waterfalls of Rain (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=1690595f-680c-4d16-ae63-6271cae1498e).

Butterfields Farm Cache Location

Any tips any experienced cachers can pass on to two cahcers just starting out?


-Laerok