Welcome to our Community Celebration Event
held in the beautiful area of Sea Caves in Cyprus
This event, with its special icon, have been awarded to
cachers worldwide to celebrate 20 years of geocaching.
This event will be held at The Oniro by the Sea, Glikou Nerou 05, Peyia 8560, Cyprus
We will be meeting outside from 6pm to 8pm on Thursday 9th September 2021
Food will be available on the day from the menu.
Please indicate whether you intend to come along by noting your attendance on the event so we can give a rough idea of numbers for the tables.
20 Years of Geocaching
Geocaching was originally similar to the 160-year-old game letterboxing, which uses clues and references to landmarks embedded in stories. Geocaching was conceived shortly after the removal of Selective Availability from the Global Positioning System on May 2, 2000, because the improved accuracy of the system allowed for a small container to be specifically placed and located. The first documented placement of a GPS-located cache took place on May 3, 2000, by Dave Ulmer of Beavercreek, Oregon. Geocaching was born.
20 years on there are now over 3 million caches hidden worldwide
This event is not only celebrating 20 years of Geocaching - but will also be celebrating Geocaching in Cyprus
There are currently (at time of going to press - July 2021) around 1480 active caches on Cyprus with some of the early caches placed still active.
The first cache on the Island was a virtual, a series of 4 virtuals in fact, placed by The Hornet back in April 2002.
The first 'physical' cache placed was a traditional - aptly called 'The first traditional cache in Cyprus' this too is still active and found up near the Olympus mountains.
The oldest active Multi cache is by Brandi Sour called Ca(t)che of the day placed back in 2005
The oldest active Unknown cache is also by Brandi Sour called Natural Bridge placed in 2006
There are currently 7 icons that can be found on the Island and if you are lucky this can increase to 8 or 9 if you are able to get to events or even this special event
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Also - as this is a celebration event - our little take on this and our link to the country is that on 8th Sept 2010 we got married here. We marked this with an earthcache at Sea Caves (GC2FMBC)
We had hoped to come over last year to celebrate our 10th Anniversary - but that got put on hold. A year on and fingers crossed we'll be here.
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From HQ
Community Celebration Events - 2020
This Event is part of a limited release of Community Celebration Events to celebrate 20 years of geocaching. Geocachers hosted events between May 2, 2020 and December 31, 2021. Learn more about Community Celebration Events on the Geocaching Blog.