Vous avez parcouru des blogs géocaching. Peut-être avez-vous lu une histoire de géocaching. Et vous avez très probablement entendu (et même chanté) quelques chansons géocaching. Mais il n’y a pas mieux pour immortaliser un moment de géocaching (par exemple celui-ci) qu’en faisant un film.
Ces 16 films géocaching réalisés à l’occasion du week-end GIFF 2015 sont maintenant disponibles pour la première fois depuis l’année dernière ! Regardez-les ici.
Du hast Geocaching-Blogs gesehen und vielleicht auch schon einmal ein Geocaching-Buch gelesen. Möglicherweise hast Du mal ein Geocaching-Lied gehört (oder vielleicht sogar geträllert). Am besten lassen sich romanträchtige Geocaching-Abenteuer (wie zum Beispiel dieses) aber wahrscheinlich doch mit der Kamera festhalten.
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Du hast bestimmt mindestens eine großartige Geocaching-Story zu erzählen. Dreh doch einen kurzen Film darüber und reiche ihn zum Geocaching International Film Festival 2016 ein.
There aren’t many places in the world where you can watch a burning sunset over the sea, listen to soothing organ music, and then be treated to a solar-powered, galactic light show…without moving from your spot the whole time.
In fact, there’s probably only one place on earth where that’s possible. And there’s a geocache there.
Zadar waterfront from above.
The Burning Sunset
Croatia’s sunniest months are July and August. Luckily for visitors the sun tends to set every day, so views like this can happen year-round.
Tall ships are a frequent sight.A perfect shot.
Soothing Organ Music
The amazing sculpture/instrument known as the Sea Organ (Croatian: Morske orgulje) is made up of a series of differently-sized tubes located in the water underneath a set of large marble steps. The movement of the waves rushing across the tubes creates beautiful, if a bit random, music.
Tubes hidden underneath marble steps produce organ sounds as the waves flow across them.One of the organ holes.
Galactic Light Show
At the top of the Sea Organ stairs is another installation fighting for the title of Most Futuristic. Embedded in the ground are approximately 300 glass solar panels called the Sun Salutation, which are perfectly walkable by day.
At dusk, the Sun Salutation switches on and displays a series of bright and colorful lights. The motion of the lights depends on the solar energy collected throughout the day as well as the power of the waves, and mimics the motion of the solar system. All eight planets are represented by solar lights placed at their proportional distances from the sun. Both the Sun Salutation and the Sea Organ were designed by the architect Nikola Bašić.
A series of solar panels called the Sun Salutation light up at night.A sunset, the lights begin to glow softly.The Sun Salutation makes a great dance floor.
All this, and of course there’s a geocache nearby to find. GC322MF is a popular meeting point for visiting geocachers who host events. The cache has 136 favorite points, and while the cache itself might be your run-of-the-mill hide, the things you’ll find when you reach it are truly incredible.
The cache.An energetic moment captured on camera by geocacher cdem62.
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Required for finding this Geocache of the Week: a tolerance for tight, pitch-black spaces.
The cache was built by these two guys, Joem and Andreas, collectively known as die 2 Schachtmeister. They’ve poured their souls, sweat, and earnings into creating this terrifyingly convincing haunted house-style geocache.
The COs of the Müssmannhaus.
Solve the puzzle from the cache page and you’ll find yourself “trapped” inside the Müssmannhaus having been kidnapped… or so the story goes. The goal is simple: escape the house by finding the geocache.
A popular photo opportunity near the entrance to the Müssmannhaus.
How it Works
The Müssmannhaus is actually several huge shipping containers owned by the cache owners. They’re stacked together and are connected by a series of secret hallways, tiny tunnels, and hidden rooms inside. Any team of geocachers who enter the house (at least 3 people are required) will face difficult puzzles and eerie, dark places in their quest to make it through.
“In you go!”The outside of the Müssmannhaus.
But it won’t be easy.
For one, things get really, really tight. The cache owners have actually written a warning for those attempting to find the cache:
In order to complete the adventure, you cannot have any — and we mean any — fear of tight, dark spaces. You’ll need to be able to fit your entire body through openings that are no bigger than 40 x 40 cm.
You also need to generally be okay with grisly things (fake grisly, of course), and be able to think under pressure.
Spoiler photos are regularly cleaned from the cache page, so you’ll need to pay a visit to the cache in person in order to find out what it’s really like.
But if you can’t make it out to Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany anytime soon, watch these videos (in German) about the cache to catch glimpses of what happens inside the Müssmannhaus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4glG_fWHIms
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zhuws9IjK7Q
The cache has garnered quite a fan club. On the one year anniversary of the Müssmannhaus’s publication, a celebration was held in the vicinity of the structure. There was even a replica cake!
Das Müssmannhaus
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Geocachers Hope and a Prayer are a husband and wife team, whose love of creatively recycled yard art may only be surpassed by their love of cartoon characters.
According to Mr. Hope and a Prayer, the allocation of the team name is ambiguous. “We have never figured out who is Hope and who is Prayer. Although, I need lots of prayer.”
One of several art pieces in Hope and a Prayer’s yard.
Back in the late 1970’s, Mr. Hope and a Prayer was an aviation electronic technician — or ‘AT’ — and a radioman navigator on the HU-16E Grumman Albatross. “We were called Tweets because we tweaked the black boxes on the plane to keep them in good running order.”
Mrs. Hope and a Prayer collects old 1960’s cartoon characters figurines, and has a particular affinity for Tweety Bird. Plus, says Mr. Hope and a Prayer, “It is by coincidence or providence that my wife and I live on Tweedt St.”
‘Tweety Bird’ cache is hidden on Tweedt Street
It’s no surprise, therefore, that Tweety Bird became the theme for GC2VA7J, their highest-favorited geocache.
The cache is a multi hidden at their house. At Stage 1, geocachers meet Tweety Bird.
A young geocacher finds Stage 1
At stage 2, one finds a small wooden barn decorated with copper leaves and flowers. Mr. Hope and a Prayer built the barn out of spare cedar fencing.
Hope and a Prayer made this cache out of old, spare cedar fencing.
The door of the barn opens, and something amazing rolls out on four wheels…recycled from a pair of in-line rollerblades.
Like a train car, the cache rolls out of the barn.
The cache was intended to surprise and delight young geocachers, but even the most seasoned geocaching veteran will agree — this cache is cute.
“We wanted something really fun for children to find. Something really large with lots of toys. We collected over time old fast food restaurant toys by the box full at yards sales. We thought what fun it would be for children digging thought toys, picking out their favorite and putting a large smile on their face. It would be like Christmas thought out the year.”
Rifling through the contents of GC2VA7J is a delightful way to go geocaching.
The cache is hidden in a safe spot (good for trackables!) with the permission of their neighbors.
Photo credit: Maggie Pietila
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