Cache Movers Geocoin

This is a different type of geocoin that I picked up from the Geoswag wesbite. The idea behind this type of coin is just a different version of the more expensive Travel Bugs. You can hook this coin/tag onto just about anything that will fit into a geocache, and your item can then be tracked as it travels around.

I still haven't decided what to hook this tag onto, but I'll be sure to post pictures when I'm ready to release it. You can see this tag's page and follow it's progress HERE.

DNF Geocoin

I just got this DNF geocoin today. This is the symbol that appears on the geocaching website when you log a cache and say you Did Not Find it. I've logged more than a few of those, so this coin was pretty amusing to me. I'm probably going to have this coin begin it's journey in a pretty difficult cache that has a high number of DNF's, just so it's fitting for the design...

You can see this geocoin's info and follow its progress HERE.

Italian Flag Micro Geocoin

Today in the mail I just got my first geocoin. I've moved several of these between geocaches, but never owned one myself. I found a great website with lots of really cheap geocoins and other swag items. I plan to let this coin loose into the world sometime in the near future. If you want to see it's progress, you can click HERE.

NGS Benchmark AI4373-3945

Just off Airport Circle is NGS Benchmark AI4373-3945. It was originally installed in 1937. It's a small disk set into a concrete base just off the sidewalk.

Who Let The Dogs Out

Gino and I found a second geocache this afternoon, and this one was called Who Let The Dogs Out. It was hidden deep in the woods in a park in Haddonfield. Several hiking trails are spread throughout that park, and the wooded area is large and beautiful.

Gino and I had a good time walking through the woods following the trails, and then we went a few hundred feet off the trail to find the geocache. The container was a small lock-and-lock covered with camo tape and hidden inside a falled tree. Gino and I actually climbed right over the fallen tree while looking, but backtracked and found it inside the rotting wood.

After several minutes of examining the treasures inside, Gino decided to take a few "gold coins" to use for his pirate games (old game tokens).

Gino at the start of the trails, GPS in hand...

Gino on the trail, getting closer.

Dad, are you coming or what?

I think we found it...

Yes, here it is!

What's inside the treasure box?

Pirate coins!

Hangin' With Mr. Hoff

Gino and I went to find the geocache Hangin' With Mr. Hoff. It was in the woods behind a small park in Haddon Heights called Hoff's Playground, named after a long-time and well-respected baseball coach at Haddon Heights High School.

It was actually Gino who found the cache container! The kid was looking in one area while I was in another, and he happened to kick over a little stumpy piece of wood and there it was! Honestly, I never would have thought to look there.

The cache container was amazingly inventive. I've never seen another like this. The person who placed this one had stuck a piece of 4" PVC pipe into the ground, and mounted a little hook onto the bottom of a flat piece of wood where a loop held the lid of the cache container. The container fit perfectly into the PVC pipe and the wood was the perfect camo.

Gino with the GPS set and ready to go!

Gino heading into the woods to find the cache...

Gino found it!

A very inventive hiding place.

The contents of the treasure box! Look at all those goodies!

What Was B4

My coworker and I took another long route home from lunch again today and stopped off to grab this geocahce at Taylors (the old Top Dog), appropriately named What Was B4. It was easy to find and no one was around here in the middle of the afternoon.

New Jersey Avenue Park Cache

This geocache, NJ Avenue Park Cache, was my second find of the day, very quick and easy, and close to the Polish American War Veterans site. I had my coworker, a virgin geocacher, with me and he actually made the find.

Polish-American War Veterans

On a little break from work today, I took my coworker, a virgin geocacher, with me to find this one, called Polish-American War Veterans. On the banks of the Cooper River off North Park Drive is a Polish-American memorial. It's actually a really nice tribute in a beautiful section. The cache was pretty easy to find thanks to the hint provided by the cache owner.