Volcano Geocache Page
Heavy terrain, beware of bad weather! You need mountain experience! You will hike about 900m of altitude on an active volcano.
The cache is a metal box (fireproof) in a plastic bag. It should be visible, unless there was a landslide or rockfall.
You can reach Stromboli by boat from either Milazzo (Sicily)via Catania or Palermo Airport or from Napoli (Italy).
I suggest the following considerations:
- Have the postcards ready before you go - the spot has some risk of rockfall! Don't spend any unnecessary time there!
- Walking sticks will be helpful to cope with the rough lava and volcanic ash terrain.
- A helmet might make you feel much better. It is mandatory for guided groups to reduce casualtuies in case of volcanic explosions.
- Don't go for the cache if there is a guided group in sight - the montain guides might feel responsible to "rescue" you.
Soon, I will give more details and photos. In the meantime, look at www.stromboli.net!
This cache is a postcard cache.
What is a postcard cache?
A postcard cache is the geocacher's mail box. It helps you to surprise
friends. How many times were you planning to send a postcard to a friend but
didn't? A postcard cache will help you to solve this mess. How does it work?
Simply take a pair of the same postcards with you when you go for the hunt. One
card stays blank, the other one is adressed to a friend and has the appropiate
stamp on it.
Once you found the cache, you will uncover many card pairs
like this, each of them attached to each other with a clip. Now choose one of
the card pairs, and exchange it for your own card pair (that should have a clip
on it). Return the cache to its hideout, and then go home. There, you either put
the written one of your two new postcards into the mailbox, or you place the
pair of cards right into the next postcard cache.
It is great to put
postcards from a different place than the cache location into the cache. It is
also great to mail the postcards from your home town - just imagine the
receivers wondering why their friends send postcards from that town... ;-) You
can exchange several pairs of cards at the same visit, of course.
More postcard caches:
- Schwarzwaldpost
- Hedwigs Mailbox
- Hannover Postkartencache