A geocaching get together to spend lunchtime with like-minded people. Locals and visitors, seasoned cachers and newbies, even muggle plus-ones - everyone is welcome. Come along to discuss all things geocaching, be that the highs and lows of recent caching outings, future plans in the making, stats and challenges you set for yourself, running into dead-ends on elusive puzzles, or anything else on your mind.
We all know how geocaches can take us to little-known and curious places we otherwise might not have come across. I figured events could be used in a similar manner but with a date instead of a place so I like using the event description to point out curious events and stories, various odds and sods, that I came across usually while wandering around in internet rabbit holes, and that I found interesting, weird, funny or intriguing.
On this day
in 1912
Harriet Quimby became the first woman to pilot an aircraft across the English Channel. She took off from Dover, England, en route to Calais, France, and completed the flight in 59 minutes landing about 25 miles (40 km) from Calais on a beach in Équihen-Plage, Pas-de-Calais.
