Wow! It is been a fairly busy month, both on the personal front and the geocaching front. We were able to find 39 caches this month which is amazing! I have been so busy with work and family that there was little time for caching. Work, however, brought me to beautiful and historic Quebec City for five days to get some needed training. While there, I found 22 caches. Because of how beautiful Quebec City is, my three stars this month come from there.
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Château en vue (Castle view)
The Chateau Frontenac as seen from the cache.
One of the many sights that I planned to visit as soon as I found out I was going to Quebec City was the famous Chateau Frontenac. Lucky for me,
LesMarcheurs.com placed a cache very near the Chateau! The cache was aptly called
Château en vue (Castle view) (GC46BZ4).. It was located in a very busy spot filled with shops, restaurants and MUGGLES!!! It was easy to find the cache but took awhile to retrieve and even longer to replace. I managed to leave a couple of travel bugs in the cache and then sat and enjoyed both the view and the atmosphere. This cache, by far, was my favorite of the month!
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Oeuvres d’art de la St-Charles
The Wherigo cache takes you around this beautiful trail!
In my couple years of caching, I have found many types of caches. I have found traditional, multi, puzzle, virtual, earth, letterbox and event caches. There have been a few, however, that still manage to elude me. I haven’t been able to attend any mega-events and I haven’t been able to participate in any Wherigo caches…until now! What is a Wherigo cache, you ask. Well, it is sort of a multicache with one main difference. With a multicache, you must find a stage and then input the coordinates contained in that stage in order to find the next stage. With a Wherigo cache, you download a cartridge to your Garmin Oregon or Montana GPSr, or your smartphone, and everything you need is there. You must navigate to each of the stages and, as you near each one, the cache is automatically tick off as completed. As soon as you find the last point, you are given the coordinates to the final cache. As soon as I noticed this cache on the map of Quebec City, I had to try it. I had to use my Android smartphone with the WhereYouGo app installed in order to complete it. Finding all of the stages took me on a 4km hike around a river in the Victoria Park area of Quebec City. The cache is called
Oeuvres d’art de la St-Charles (GC38RZA) and was placed by
Zubulus. It was a great change of pace and allowed me to find yet another cache type. It was also fun to do! For that reason, it earns the Second Star for the month. Stay tuned as I am now in the process of creating one of these Wherigo caches near downtown St. John’s!
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Sous le manteau
The hint is written in the chair!
Our third star goes to another Quebec City cache that had a neat way of giving us the clue. The cache was placed by
rigue and was called
Sous le manteau (GC35PPN). The phrase “Sous le manteau” translates to “Under the cloak.” Therefore, when I arrived near ground zero, I immediately noticed a metal sculpture that resembled a cloak of some kind. I spent awhile looking for the cache there but the actual ground zero to me into the center of a bunch of stainless steel chairs, approximately 30 chairs. I looked at the hint again and began to wonder. Each chair had an inscription written on them that was a famous quote by a famous person. As I started reading them, I was very intrigued! It took me reading fifteen chairs before I seen a chair that started with the words “Sous le manteau.” It was a famous quote by Gilles Villaneuve, who was a famous Canadian Formula One race car driver who died in a car crash many years ago. I quickly found the cache after using a bit of stealth. I really enjoyed finding this cache and stayed for awhile and read all of the chairs.
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Caching Heaven 