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Die schönste Art, durch Geocaching inspiriert zu werden, ist es, raus zu gehen und Geocaches zu suchen. Die zweitbeste Möglichkeit besteht darin, Geocaching in den sozialen Netzwerken zu folgen. Man verbindet sich mit Geocachern aus der ganzen Welt, bekommt atemberaubende Fotos und Videoclips gezeigt, liest umwerfende Geschichten und vieles mehr.
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The time has come. Earlier this month, three amazing geocaching teams were nominated for January 2015’s Geocacher of the Month award, and a winner has been chosen.
As a refresher, here are the nominees…
Timpat is known throughout the New York geocaching community for his impressive hides, supportive nature, and extensive GPS and mapping expertise. With nearly 10,000 finds and 400 hides, he is a true inspiration to all. Not to mention, his kayak geocaches are amazing.
Tinman and Timpat
family Behrens (aka FB) has helped geocaching bloom in South Africa. He (and his family) are known in the local geocaching community for their creative and challenging geocaches (all 88 of them) and for throwing well-organized, highly attended CITO events.
T5? No problem for team Behrens
Koouye is recognized throughout the Belgium geocaching community for being a dynamic, passionate, and devoted geocacher. He is a social butterfly, known for hosting great events and for attending other’s events (133 so far!)
Koouye and his lovely family
The Featured Geocacher of the Month is named by a panel at Geocaching HQ after reviewing community input and blog comments. It’s a tough decision, given the combined contributions of these folks to the geocaching community as a whole.
After tallying the sentiment and reading the comments, family Behrens has been officially named the Featured Geocacher of the Month for January 2015.
There’s no denying that family Behrens or “FB” is an unstoppable geocaching force in South Africa. Their father, Jamie, leads the pack with his creative geocache hides and wonderful community organized events. Many would say that their passion and excitement for the game has helped geocaching spread like wildfire in South Africa and surrounding countries.
1000th find!
Finding one of family Behrens’ geocaches is a must. According to the community, they are beyond good, they are legendary. SawaSawa says that Jamie of FB “has become renowned for his wonderful creative caches for which he has garnered numerous Favorite Points and heaps of praise. He has also invented an original ‘trademark’ micro-cache design (100% waterproof) made from discarded plastic bottle tops which I have copied and used in many of my hides in Kenya. His ingenuity in cache design and care in preparation is now legendary in South Africa and especially Cape Town and everyone looks forward eagerly to the next FB creation.”
Mr. and Mrs. family Behrens
If you’re in the area, you should attend an event thrown by this geocaching team. Andre & Jeanne says FB, “hosts numerous events and CITO’s. He works together with Table Mountain National Park to do path clearing and removal of alien vegetation.”
Suikerbossies sums up the winner perfectly, “We love their hides, their unique containers, enthusiasm for the game and trouble they go to to give back to the game, nature and the community! Simply put, they are a great example and we are proud of them.”
Jamie of FB. Rain or shine, geocaching is on.
family Behrens will receive the very special Geocacher of the Month geocoin and a special prize package from Geocaching HQ, in recognition of their geocaching efforts.
Send your kudos to family Behrens and our other January Geocacher of the Month Nominees. They’ve made the hobby we love WAY more fun.
The earned, never for sale, Geocacher of the Month Geocoin
While we normally try to keep things a little more high-brow on the Geocaching Blog, occasionally we can’t resist the temptation for a bit of childish giggling (teehee!). Once you move past the outhouse and the crappy pun (there’s another one!), you see that this geocache is actually quite intricate, well-made and would be great to find even if it didn’t have the humorous aspect. See, even crappy geocaches can be Geocache of the Week!
What geocachers are saying:
“I dragged my wife out geocaching on this fine day. She doesn’t take kindly to geocaching, but I knew that this cache would certainly change her mind, given the popularity and clear attention to detail from the cache owners. I am happy to report that this cache exceeded our expectations and was well worth the trip from Kalamazoo. I want to extend my thanks to the cache owners for keeping things fresh! TNLNSL TFTC!” – mending_wall
“Tftc! We are babysitting our niece for the weekend and wanted to take her caching … heard about the crappiest cache from a coworker .. she LOVED it!! When caching make sure to bring dog treats ;)” – krazylegs11
“I don’t like caches where I have to worry about the kids’ safety, give me a park, a cemetery, or this crappy cache! This was an awesomely crappy cache and we loved it! Thanks for the cache and it was great meeting you!” – bjak13
What the geocache owner, TEAM GEOCHEF, has to say:
“The build took over a year since I needed to come up with the material without buying too much. I had a friend who was taking down a barn so I asked if I could help in return for some of the wood for our cache. Two weeks later the barn was down and I had more than enough for what I wanted so I changed the design from a 1 hole to a 2 hole Crappy Cache.
The flooring was from a piece of machinery that was delivered to work and the tin on the roof was from another building I helped take down.The only thing we had to pay for was the red paint, the door hardware and the new toilet seats everything was recycled even the screws and nails.We made this to give back to fellow Geocachers as we all know it is fun to find an interesting cache. We have been very fortunate to be home when many cachers have stopped in for the smiley and many times photo op. We enjoy spending time with others and are amazed how far many have traveled just to see our cache.””We would like to say thanks for everyone who has stopped in or wrote us notes about our cache we did this for you. “
Photos:
This one is a two-seater. Photo by geocacher northwing65The logbook is conveniently located by the seat. Photo by geocacher scrapcatThis cache definitely (and thankfully) doesn’t live up to its name. Photo by geocacher epoch13
What’s your favorite geocaching joke? Tell us in the comments.
Continue to explore some of the most engaging geocaches around the globe. Check out all the Geocaches of the Week on the Geocaching blog. If you would like to nominate a Geocache of the Week, just fill out this form. Thanks!
