For many of us, 2020 did not look the way we imagined. We each had challenges to overcome this year as our realities changed. Geocaching offered us a way to escape into nature and reset our perspectives. As we opted to spend more time outside, we realized that nature has a unique way to heal us all. When things felt uncertain we could count on venturing outside, feeling the solid ground beneath our shoes, breathing in the fresh air of the great outdoors, and holding our GPS or phone in hand as we headed out to participate in the world’s largest treasure hunt.
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Emily is a Community Volunteer Support Specialist at Geocaching HQ. She's a native Texan raised in the Midwest and enchanted by the Pacific Northwest. You can usually find her lost in a guidebook planning her next adventurous travels.
Between the sky and Skye — Geocache of the Week
- Traditional
- GC6M8MA
- by Elena e Martino
- Location:
- Northern Scotland, United Kingdom
- N 57° 25.600 W 006° 47.077
The world is a big place full of immense adventure, magical destinations, and captivating history. Add in a global treasure hunt and the possibilities are endless. One place that captures this vastness of our world is the Isle of Skye. While it may be famous for its appearance in movies, novels, and a prominent mention in any guidebook to Scotland, geocachers visiting the island find even more reasons to be enthralled by Skye at our Geocache of the Week, Between the sky and Skye (GC6M8MA).
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Golden Prague — Geocache of the Week
One of the things geocachers love best about geocaching is all of the wonderful places you discover and things you learn through your geocaching adventures. What better way is there to explore a new place? Our Geocache of the Week, Golden Prague (GC1XXGG), leads geocachers through the city of Prague on a 27-stage Multi-Cache adventure where they will discover the history of this extraordinary Czech city before they can sign the logbook and earn their smiley.
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New country souvenir, Gibraltar, with Geocache of the Week: St. Michael’s Cave
- EarthCache
- GC1C0B7
- by ajsa & golfinha
- Location:
- Gibraltar
- N 36° 07.575 W 005° 20.731
Today, we released a new country/regional souvenir for Gibraltar. If you have found a geocache in Gibraltar, you automatically receive the souvenir on your profile.
Gibraltar sits at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula where Europe and Africa are separated by the Strait of Gibraltar, one of the busiest shipping routes in the world. The people of Gibraltar speak English, Spanish, and a mix of several languages known as Llanito, often switching languages mid-sentence. Visitors to Gibraltar are delighted by the opportunity to interact with the mischievous Barbary macaque, Europe’s only wild monkey.
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The First in Wales — Geocache of the Week
- Traditional
- GC2BA
- by The Gecko’s
- Location:
- South Wales, United Kingdom
- N 51° 48.265 W 003° 03.285
Do you ever feel like you are searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack? You know the geocache is just right there and yet you have no logbook to show for your efforts. So close to giving up, you make one final search and there it is! The elusive geocache and logbook are found. Our Geocache of the Week, The First in Wales (GC2BA), presents this challenge to cachers who journey to the moorlands of Wales to find this historic cache.
Placed in February of 2001, GC2BA was the very first geocache in Wales and is currently one of the oldest active geocaches in the world. Although the cache was originally placed by Glyndwyr, The Gecko’s have since taken over ownership.
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