The mail needed to get through, so three Westies (rustynz, rebel98 and gorbygorbachov) wandered off into the forest to find an elusive letterbox cache.
We had already cycled 42km, drove 28km, walked 1km, and followed the hoof prints to GZ, so that we might find another one of the 8 types of geocaches, and earn an elusive Geocaching virtual Souvenir (Wheel of Challenges 2023).
THE GEOCACHE TYPES ARE:
Traditional Cache
Adventure Lab
Event Cache
Virtual Cache
EarthCache
Multi-Cache
Mystery Cache
Letterbox Hybrid
It took a bit of searching, but eventually we found the cache, and a smiley was earned.
But we had come prepared with our own container, and after a bit of a discussion, a few areas searched, a new letterbox cache was hidden.
So what better way to honour International Geocaching Day 2023 (third Saturday of each August).
Not only a day of celebration and smileys, but also a time to acknowledge the past and the future, with the hiding of a new cache!
SO WHAT IS A LETTERBOX CACHE?
It is based on Letterboxing which started in England in 1854, long before the GPS was invented.
Finders follow written instructions/clues to discover the container or the modern way is to use the posted coordinates on the geocaching cache page.
Each letterbox contains a logbook, and a rubber stamp.
When "letterboxers" find the container, they stamp the logbook with their personal stamp, and also stamp their own notebook with the stamp from the letterbox as a souvenir of their visit.
Please remember to leave this caches stamp and logbook in the container for the next finder.