Décollage pour l'espace!

Lift-off!
Our Space event in Limoges was a huge success. We hoped to meet a few local cachers but didn't expect so many attendees. A great evening was had by all.

Geocaching Limousin 2013

We met at the bowling club near Limoges. The evening kicked off at 18.00 after we had sneakily hidden a new cache nearby especially for this event (GC4QQ2J). We had a natter with local geocachers - some we had met before and a lot were new faces. The group photo was taken at around 20.00 by MACH87. Then we dished out the papers for John's space quiz which would lead to the discovery of coordinates for the new cache. Little by little the contestants returned the correct answers and went in search of the cache. The winner was Baldix who was awarded a space shuttle trackable (TB5Q3QM) for FTF. After a brief 'apertif' in the car park (it was a bit nippy) some had to leave and the rest of us retired to the restaurant for a superb evening meal. We hope to do it all again soon!

Changes

It's been a long time since I last posted here (over a year) and a lot has happened during that time. Some changes for us (jobs, schools, outlooks) but we have still been very busy Gecaching here in France. We've gone from 2000 finds to 3000 and beyond. It's not about the numbers for us but we really do like to get out there and look for quality caches so, little by little, we naturally "rack them up". Our latest find as I write this is "La Pierre des Sages" by Terra-aventura. Not an official Geocache on the site but a cache by the local tourist board which has been much fun for the scouts (and scoutette) all the same.

Terra-aventura Season 3

We've been working our way around France from our base in the Haute-Vienne and trying to visit as many departments as possible. We took a trip to Euro-Disney last summer and went on to find the oldest cache in Europe, in Belgium for a milestone. We also went back to England earlier this year to do a few virtuals and we got out furthest west find at Land's End. We've been to three Mega events to date and a host of other great events this year. A huge thanks to the organisers of those.

Geoscouts 3000 - Le Tresor de Santiago (Limoges)

So what now? Well next year we hope to return to Italy which we (John and I) visited in 2004 and do some exciting caches there. We'd also like to put Portugal on the map and maybe a few other countries. In the mean time we hope to find a few more near here in order to get our annual New Year's Day Milestone at around the 4000 mark. Let's see what happens.

Quelle aventure


An Earthcache, 2 boat caches, 2 confluences and a big milestone!
We started the day at the beach. It was a fair walk across the sand dune to the Earthcache but the sun was already blazing down on us and the cool sea water was refreshing. We got within 90 meters of the reference point in order to log the cache. After this we had to prepare the boat. The next two caches were on a lake but neither were reachable on foot. We had some fun sailing around the shore to the first one then we had to set sail for an island to log the second. We were still trying to get the numbers up for our next big milestone so while heading East we picked up a cache at N45, W1. This was the first confluence visit of the day for us. After logging a few more caches at Jalles we made our way to the Winery to log our 2000th find. We had spent the last two days setting this one up, with 39 Châteaux and 3 bonus caches to find in order to get the clues for this, the final of the series "Les Specialists". So we logged our find at around 18.00 making 2000 finds for team Geoscouts! Later we called at N45, E0 to log our second confluence of the day.

Earthcache

Geoscouts' first Earthcache is now live

If you find yourself in the South of France, maybe on your way down to Spain you can make a bit of a detour and discover our Earthcache. The mountain is well known by some for it's strange dis-ordered strata. Visiting the related webpage will explain all about this mysterious peak and the enigmas attached to it.

Could this be the place to be when the world ends in December?

Our very first Event cache

Geoscouts are hosting a camping event at the Camping Municipal in Huriel, Allier, France. More info HERE

We will be at the campsite from Wednesday 25th April 2012 so please feel free to turn up earlier and make a short holiday of it.

Thursday we will be out finding caches in the area ~ all welcome to join us.

Friday there will be some new caches hidden for the event including, maybe a night-multi.

Saturday we will be onsite ready for the main event by zephyrsailor which kicks off here.

We look forward to meeting some fellow Geocachers from the Allier.

See you there!

Munzee Madness

New on the scene this year is an add-on to Geocaching for smart phone users. Munzees are QR codes that when scanned take you to the official Munzee site: www.munzee.com where you can earn points for scanning and hiding them. The Geoscouts are in the process of adding these to each of our Geocaches since we found our first one in a cache near Brive. Not all are hidden in caches either. You can find them on all sorts of different locations so check out the map on the official website to see if there are any near you. Happy hunting!

The Geoscouts have been taking some time out in the garden recently. We hope to be back on the caching scene very soon but until then we're admiring this summer's Jerusalem Artichokes ...