August started off with a busy weekend at the UK Mega in Essex (check out my blog post all about it here) and quietened down a bit after that. The big news was that I reached 365 days in my geocaching streak! I still can’t believe I managed to do it. It wasn’t easy – some… Read More Take me back to Achill | The Geocaching Junkie
26th July – 3rd August was UK Mega week and this year, the honours went to Essex as the venue. It was an easy decision for me to attend this mega – it’s not too far from where njcbailey & Walden Eleanor live in Essex, so when they said they were going, The_Mother and I… Read More Essex 2015 – A MEGA weekend! | The Geocaching Junkie
I will always remember July 2015 as the month I finished my DT Matrix and I met James Bond! Fizzy Challenge I had been working on finishing the DT grid for quite a while and the last few combinations needed were really proving difficult to achieve, partly because of lack of time to commit to going for… Read More What’s 007 plus 81? James Bond and my Fizzy Grid | The Geocaching Junkie
When I attended my first event in November 2013, one of the first questions I was asked was ‘how many caches have you found?’ At the time, I had found less than 100 and definitely felt like the quintessential newbie in a see of experienced geocaching demi-Gods. I know better now of course! If you enter the world… Read More Is It All About The Numbers? An Interview with Ireland’s Top Geocache Finder | The Geocaching Junkie
Do you have a favourite cache type? According to the Groundspeak website, there are 17 geocache types to find – that’s right, SEVENTEEN*!! Although some are much more rare than others, of course, and some are not even listed on the geocaching website (read: waymarks) but they are listed under geocache types there. To date, I have… Read More What’s your favourite cache type? | The Geocaching Junkie
On 3rd June 2000, exactly one month after the first ever geocache was hidden in Beavercreek, Oregon by Dave Ulmer, Europe’s First (GC43) was hidden on Bray Head, in county Wicklow, Ireland. I’m very lucky to live just a stone’s throw from this historic piece of geocaching heritage and it was among my first 20 finds. I didn’t really understand the importance of… Read More Celebrating 15 years of Geocaching | The Geocaching Junkie
I went on two weekend trips in May, and although the sole purpose of neither trip was geocaching, I naturally managed to fit a few good caches in there 🙂 The first trip was to the Giant’s Causeway on the North Antrim Coast in Northern Ireland. This was my second ever visit to the area and it’s still as impressive as… Read More A Giant Weekend & a Wander around Walden | The Geocaching Junkie
I have noticed a recent influx of ‘found it’ logs on my caches from ‘newbie’ geocachers. In fact, some of my caches have been the first geocache some newbies have ever found – another reason why cache maintenance is so important! You don’t want a potential new geocacher to find a broken container, a soggy… Read More 15 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Geocaching…. | The Geocaching Junkie
April has been a relatively quiet month for me on the caching front. Of course, I have still been finding a minimum of one cache per day (April 30th is the 262nd day of my streak!), but I haven’t had time to go on any major geocaching adventures. The highlight of the month by far… Read More CITO 2015 and a birthday FTF adventure in the woods! | The Geocaching Junkie
My uncle is studying at the university in Leuven, Belgium for a year so I decided to book a weekend trip for me and The_Mother as her Christmas present. I hadn’t done too much preparation for the trip up until a few weeks ago and then the planning really started. The three most important things I… Read More 5 countries in a day, GC40 and geocaching in Belgium | The Geocaching Junkie
