The journey of geocaching becomes a metaphor for love stories and a vehicle for marriage proposals. See the couples who have fallen in love while treasure hunting and popped the question at a geocache.
Geocaching Love Stories
Geocaching.com introduces you to two such couples, with proposal and wedding snapshots from many more.
Some couples even decide to use geocaching as the theme of their wedding.
Share your geocaching love story in the comments below.
Explore even more adventures of geocachers in the Geocaching.com Lost & Found gallery.
One of the joys of geocaching is what you discover on the way to the geocache.
Geocachers searching for One, If By Land (GC16C0) are challenged to hike along the rugged coast of Maine, U.S.A. They’re rewarded with the skeleton of weathered shipwreck and, according to the cache page, greeted by notorious Maine mosquitoes.
More than 150 geocachers have logged a smiley on this geocache. It was hidden more than nine years ago in August of 2001.
Hardy adventurers have to travel to Sawyer’s Island, Maine. The cache reads, “The mosquitoes hope our cache you’ll seek. Under oak, fir and birch, go take a peek. Near water’s edge you will want to be. Just follow trail in clockwise route, past an ancient wreck, you’ll see.”
The Maine coast on the way to GC16C0
Cache owner BRLT adopted “One, If By Land” in 2006 and tells us that coordinates may soon be readjusted to bring geocachers even closer to the difficulty two, terrain 1.5 cache.
It might be the ideal time of year to search for “One, If By Land.” The leaves in Maine are just beginning to change color as the fall season approaches.
Your exploration doesn’t have to stop here. There are now more than 6000 geocaches in Maine, and nearly 1.2 million geocaches around the world. You can explore all the Geocaches of the Week here.
Wat Prachumrat (GC2D5PM) is one of nearly 500 geocaches in Thailand. This urban Micro Cache takes treasure hunters outside of Bangkok to the district of Lam Kuk Ka. It was published just last month and has only been logged once so far.
Geocachers visiting the cache will discover a Buddhist temple nearby. The three story gold Buddha you see to your left sits inside.
The geocacher who hid this cache, JamieZel, is the owner of 33 geocaches.
He says, “I love how Geocaching helps people explore what is around them. The place you drive past hundreds of times but never take the time to stop and look. Wat Prachumrat is a great place to stop and see a part of Thailand that most just quickly drive by. Yes there are many temples and each one is beautiful but this one had an interesting twist. A huge statue of Buddha. The temple is very peaceful and one that I go past a lot while taking the daughters out to a wake board park.”
A sign you're getting close
He goes on to say, “I hope over the years to draw more locals and tourists out of the suburban jungle to see the beauties that Thailand has to offer and use Geocaching as a tool to do so.”
There are now more nearly 1.2 million geocaches around the world. You can explore all the Geocaches of the Week here.
Winning Caption: "I pledge allegiance to this cache and to the other caches hidden 'round hereand to this gray rock on which I stand,one drunk gnome, holding grog, intoxicated,with stealthiness from muggles and all. <burp></burp>" -Anewlesmiz
This is the twelfth installment of our Geocaching Caption Contest. You might have seen this picture posted to Geocaching.com’s Facebook page. It was too good not to share here on the Latitude 47 blog.
What caption would you write? “Mmmm… that geocache looks tasty.” You can do better.
The winner receives what’s a fairly coveted prize, celebrating the launch of Signal the Frog’s Facebook page. The winning caption receives the Signal antenna ball.
Click here to see the winning captionBarely coveted prize
Good luck! Please include your geocaching username in all entries.
The winner of the twelfth Geocaching Caption Contest will be chosen by an ad hoc committee of Lackeys.
15 Lackeys voted to award the winner of the eleventh Geocaching Caption Contest a barely coveted prize.
Click on the picture to the right to see who won a barely coveted prize.
FBZ A.P.E. 51; Stone of the Lost ValleyNear a FBZ cache
The geocaching spectrum runs from the ease of drive-up light pole caches all the way into the dark world of mind-bending themed Multi-Caches. The geocaches like the “Forbidden Zone Geocaches” (FBZ) around San Diego, California push geocachers to their mental and physical extremes.
It took two years for Jim Epler (SGTF) to create the complex and conspiracy-laden series of seven geocaches.
Seven caches are hidden in and around San Diego. The story line for the FBZ geocaches has players assume the role of an agent investigating a link between extraterrestrials and primates, and possibly uncovering plans for an alien invasion.
FBZ Clue/Prop (No animals were harmed in the making of this cache)
Clues and passwords at each cache advance players through the game. The players must register through the Forbidden Zone Geocache website. The registration is only to keep score. All the geocaches are available through Geocaching.com. The first six geocaches do not have to be found in any particular order to uncover coordinates for the final cache.
When asked why he created such an involved geocache, Jim jokingly says, “because I didn’t know any better!”
But he says creating the Multi-Cache was two years well spent: “For me, the fun was in the creative process, not necessarily the end result. I looked at it as an enjoyable hobby which comprises a number of things I like to do including web site development, photography and graphics design, research, prop building, science fiction, storytelling, urban exploration, and hiking.”
The caches were hidden in 2008. More than a dozen geocachers have attempted the series and many completed all seven caches.
FBZ Clue
Jim hopes that people finish the cache without absorbing too much of the conspiracy. He says, “I hope visitors are able to appreciate the ‘tongue and cheek’ humor which was my foundation for the entire project. I wrote the ‘top secret’ documents from the perspective of a paranoid conspiracy theorist, and all the stuff used to support this ridiculous storyline is just one long outrageous spoof.”
What do you think, would you ever attempt a themed Multi-Cache? Have you encountered other caches like this?
