As I usually do when planning a trip, I turned to geoaching as one source of information. As destinations go, Nassau has a very manageable number of geocaches to find. As I'm writing this, there are less than a dozen in the downtown area. Using the locations of the geocaches as a starting point, layering …
The annual SnowDays festival is underway in Banff National Park. With activities ranging from ice carving to ice climbing, snow sculpting to snow shoeing and lots more, the month-long schedule of activities is designed to encourage everyone to embrace winter. We enjoyed a half day in and around the Banff townsite, searching for 5 geocaches …
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I can't think of a more enjoyable way to spend a beautiful fall afternoon in New York City than wandering through Central Park - watching people, photographing autumn leaves and collecting the information to log some geocaches. We exited the park along Museum Mile, where the cost of leasing a spot for a hotdog stand …
Generally speaking, we're fair-weather hikers. But when Environment Canada's forecast shows nothing but rain, chance of showers and/or risk of thunderstorms for the next seven days, we become a lot more receptive to the idea of a half-day hike where we might encounter some precipitation on the way back down. All of which is a …
It seems no matter where we travel, we see a similar mix of geocache hides - usually lots of micros, mainly in urban areas. The majority are well-placed and well-maintained, but inevitably some have damp log sheets, are hanging in the middle of a prickly bush or are hidden in a very busy area where an extensive …