Fundy National Park

May 21-25, 2010

may 23, 2010: fundy national park

Fundy National Park Event kick-off

Summary of the event (written afterwards):

"Five new geocaches were published and the eager geocachers hit the trails. The reward this year was a special 60th anniversary of Fundy National Park, a non-trackable geocoin.

The theme for the geocaches this year was "water", each cache brought geocachers to selected areas of the park which hilighted this theme. One example was the geocache "Fishy Facebook" where the nearby lake was the site of a new fishway which will allow the fish to travel between the lake & river system. Or "What's Up Doc?" where geocachers were guided down to the site of the many waterfalls that are located within the park.

105 geocachers started their day at 10am, but during the next few hours, another 61 had logged in. Many decided to take advantage of the weekend to book camping site and do the challenge over two days. Over twenty participants were able to log all five geocaches during the event duration. However, it was hard work as many returned with red faces and that look of exhaustion which turned into joy once they redeemed their passport for the geocoin."

we arrive.

the parking lot was full of geo-cars...

geocaching bumper stickers

trackable items

personalized plates, etc..

although the kick-off was to be at 10:00am... some people already got the cache information and were on their way when we arrived at 9:50am.

the sign in table

people punching in the cache information into their GPs

a parks canada spokesperson says a few words.

and there was yummy cookies and coffee.

the aunts meet up with us in the parking lot... and sam shows off her level 3 button.

everyone is proud of her accomplishment.

florence showing off the shirt the aunts got for christopher.

everyone is "excited" to go for a hike?!

sam get a cool "magic shirt" from the aunts.
it starts off black & white, but then when exposed to the sun,
i t turns into a brightly coloured shirt and reveals a treasure map.