What else is a better match for Christmas than Geocaching?

Christmas is a great time of year to get out and geocache. You often are travelling and visiting family – so you can find geocaches in new places. You can share it with family and friends and introduce them to this treasure hunting fun. And you can work off a bit of the festive food through walking, hiking, or biking to find the geocache.

Last year I saw a geocache pop up on my local area pocket query called “Christmas Card Lane” and it was only available for ~3 weeks around Christmas. By the time I got around to go and find it, it was no longer available. Darn! Santa has other work to do during the year, so I understand he can’t commit to keeping this up all year.

So I’ve been waiting all year for this geocache to pop up again. It came at the same time a neighbour told us about a local street that decorates their neighborhood and all the locals go and walk or drive through the area. I searched my geocache query and found the geocache I’d been waiting for within this neighborhood. It was meant to be!

Did you see who hid the geocache? It was Santa and His Elves! How exciting that he maintains a residence here in San Diego, California.

We drove down the street and admired the neighborhood, the locals have put a giant “Christmas Card” on each front garden with a different theme. Some have Harry Potter or Winnie the Pooh or The geocache was located in a bush in front of Wallace & Gromit….that’s me in front of Santa’s geocache.

I didn’t see Santa at the house – he was probably very busy delivering gifts to people across the world. Merry Christmas to All!

Love to showcase some of the common geocache hides that are used by geocachers but that a geocache muggle would never think that there is a secret treasure to be found.

This is called a fence pole hide…

On a hike and often those fence poles have a cap that twists off. If you do it, you might just find a geocache hide there….

If you want to read about some unusual or unique geocache hides, you might be interested in the Saguaro Cactus or the Lamp Post or the Tucson Rock.

I eventually tried it out with one a few months ago and it seems to have had a good response.

Well, we were off to Palm Springs for a couple of days and whilst driving in the dessert we saw there there was long area that had no geocaches. It is not often that you see this happen – so we took the opportunity and decided to place a series called “Dessert in the Desert”

Any geocache we place we like to keep a British theme to celebrate our British heritage – so this theme was based on desserts from England – a bit about their history and why they are so yummy. Perhaps inspire a few people to make a British dessert….

Here’s the bookmark for the series if you are interested….Dessert in the Desert