Wow, this is really the first geocaching free weekend due to having a fairly busy schedule. Today was out due to snowboarding and the Rugby World Cup, yesterday we were staying with friends, swimming a lot!
We are going to have to make up for it next weekend!
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Christmas in September
Tears of joy roll down my face as I quickly checked the geocaching site this morning, and yet another new cache has been place! It's just fantastic, and finally we are getting some new caches to go for! Thanks go out to those placing new caches out here, since sadly so many have been archived in recent weeks, due to all the construction that is ongoing in Dubai and the other emirates.
Thanks Camel Master and Jamesdxb for putting a new cache out there this month! Keep it up everyone!
Thanks Camel Master and Jamesdxb for putting a new cache out there this month! Keep it up everyone!
Saturday, September 15, 2007
What a nice day
Well, this day started off so pleasantly! Woke up to check the site, and whoa!! There is a new cache, and its in Sharjah!!! So we started packing our stuff, and prepared to hit the road!
Conveniently, the newly published "Sharjah's Jungle" was really close to one of the other remaining to be discovered caches, "Animal Instincts". So we decided to bundle these two together, and scratch a few more off the list!
Both were extremely fun, and very educational. Ok, so "Animal Instincts" wins the educational award, hands down, but SJ was very rewarding in its own right. It never ceases to amaze me at how things can grow in one of the worlds most inhospitable environments! Even in the UAE several people die every year in these deserts, usually tourists, totally underestimating the devastating effects of the extreme desert heat!
So we found the two caches, within about 10 km of each other, and yet taking about 6 hours to complete... man, time just gets away from me these days!
We also went venturing for a new cache location, and we came across UAE's version of Area 51. It was weird, and oddly out of place. It would make a nice UFO landing spot :)
We ended up hiding my fairer half's "UAE Cache" around this location. Check it out, and tell me it isn't strange.
I will sort through some photos and add em to the blog in the next day or so.
"Sharjah's Jungle"
Sunset near "Animal Instincts"
Happy Caching!
Conveniently, the newly published "Sharjah's Jungle" was really close to one of the other remaining to be discovered caches, "Animal Instincts". So we decided to bundle these two together, and scratch a few more off the list!
Both were extremely fun, and very educational. Ok, so "Animal Instincts" wins the educational award, hands down, but SJ was very rewarding in its own right. It never ceases to amaze me at how things can grow in one of the worlds most inhospitable environments! Even in the UAE several people die every year in these deserts, usually tourists, totally underestimating the devastating effects of the extreme desert heat!
So we found the two caches, within about 10 km of each other, and yet taking about 6 hours to complete... man, time just gets away from me these days!
We also went venturing for a new cache location, and we came across UAE's version of Area 51. It was weird, and oddly out of place. It would make a nice UFO landing spot :)
We ended up hiding my fairer half's "UAE Cache" around this location. Check it out, and tell me it isn't strange.
I will sort through some photos and add em to the blog in the next day or so.
"Sharjah's Jungle"
Sunset near "Animal Instincts"Happy Caching!
Thursday, September 13, 2007
How to get more caches going?
I'm a little frustrated, and itching to find new caches. At the moment, I have already found most of the caches in the UAE, and started venturing into Oman to pick up the very view that are hidden there.
I am dying to go cache hunting, but unless we can get the active cachers to start hiding stuff as well, sigh, this sport is rapidly going to end here. I have set a goal of hiding one cache for every 5 that I find. I am actually going to go ballistic and hide a whole bunch over the next two weeks, hoping to inspire you all to do the same. Phoenixdxb, my better half, has been the most active cache-hider in recent months, and I would like this trend to rub off on all cachers!
We have a small caching community that grows a little every week, please encourage all to do their bit to hide a cache every now a then. I mean, really, a country like the UAE... Dubai, with their 3 millions expats, could really do much better that the 69 caches (4-5 of which are archived) currently present.
Sigh, help a brother out, hide a cache!
I am dying to go cache hunting, but unless we can get the active cachers to start hiding stuff as well, sigh, this sport is rapidly going to end here. I have set a goal of hiding one cache for every 5 that I find. I am actually going to go ballistic and hide a whole bunch over the next two weeks, hoping to inspire you all to do the same. Phoenixdxb, my better half, has been the most active cache-hider in recent months, and I would like this trend to rub off on all cachers!
We have a small caching community that grows a little every week, please encourage all to do their bit to hide a cache every now a then. I mean, really, a country like the UAE... Dubai, with their 3 millions expats, could really do much better that the 69 caches (4-5 of which are archived) currently present.
Sigh, help a brother out, hide a cache!
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Tired
Being super exhausted and working and traveling a lot, I have been a little lax on updating this blog. I did stay faithful to the cause and do some geocaching last weekend, but they were all maintenance visits, and helping my best friend (TheToadNet) get to some of the more out of the way caches, he hadn't visited yet.
I am just so tired, I actually thought about doing nothing this coming weekend. Yeah right!! I am just too hooked, and I need to move a TB or two along, plus I want to spend a day hiding caches. I currently have 39 finds, and I have set some goals for myself and for the community here in the UAE.
Myself, I would like to find my 100th cache before the end of the year. This feat should easily be accomplished with a visit to my mom in Holland in November (actually going to watch Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band in Arhem and the bonus is spending some time with mom). Since there are some 11000 caches in a 100 mile radius of my moms home, I think I should easily be able to reach the 100 cache mark this year, if not way more. I look at our local cache approver, Eric, and I wonder how on earth he got to 2000 cache finds since the sport only started in 2001.
That gets me to the local UAE community goal. I would like our community to grow to the point where we are adding at least 10 new caches a month. At the very least, I would like our community to be in the position of having 100 active caches by the end of the year, and that means in the UAE.
There are many difficulties in having and maintaining caches here in the UAE. Particularly, the ever changing landscape, areas that have been clear for years are now being leveled for development, and development is happening everywhere!!
I am also on a mission to put more caches in the other emirates. While most of us live in Dubai or Abu Dhabi, there are no caches in Sharjah, Ajman, and only recently in RAK. And some of the caches out there require a considerable distance travelled before encountering a cache. I would like to rectify that, placing more caches on the routes to the major cache spot in this region.
Well, that is all for now, stay posted for a whole bunch of additional caches coming soon.
I am just so tired, I actually thought about doing nothing this coming weekend. Yeah right!! I am just too hooked, and I need to move a TB or two along, plus I want to spend a day hiding caches. I currently have 39 finds, and I have set some goals for myself and for the community here in the UAE.
Myself, I would like to find my 100th cache before the end of the year. This feat should easily be accomplished with a visit to my mom in Holland in November (actually going to watch Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band in Arhem and the bonus is spending some time with mom). Since there are some 11000 caches in a 100 mile radius of my moms home, I think I should easily be able to reach the 100 cache mark this year, if not way more. I look at our local cache approver, Eric, and I wonder how on earth he got to 2000 cache finds since the sport only started in 2001.
That gets me to the local UAE community goal. I would like our community to grow to the point where we are adding at least 10 new caches a month. At the very least, I would like our community to be in the position of having 100 active caches by the end of the year, and that means in the UAE.
There are many difficulties in having and maintaining caches here in the UAE. Particularly, the ever changing landscape, areas that have been clear for years are now being leveled for development, and development is happening everywhere!!
I am also on a mission to put more caches in the other emirates. While most of us live in Dubai or Abu Dhabi, there are no caches in Sharjah, Ajman, and only recently in RAK. And some of the caches out there require a considerable distance travelled before encountering a cache. I would like to rectify that, placing more caches on the routes to the major cache spot in this region.
Well, that is all for now, stay posted for a whole bunch of additional caches coming soon.
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