July 13 by Zoeker Bill
We were up in the area dropping our daughter off at camp and took the opportunity to grab a few caches. A very popular spot on a Sunday afternoon. Great stroll through the woods. Lots of hikers and bikers. Nice series which we thoroughly enjoyed. Found the first one with little trouble. TFTC
July 13 by princess and the monkey
This is the first letterbox cache we’ve found - a new cache type for us! We really enjoyed following the “pirate treasure” type instructions We really liked the tree stamp - it may have inspired us to start our own passport book and get our own stamp!
Joya helped us find this second one of the day after a beautiful walk in the sunshine along the Ivey trail.
TFTC - The Princess and The Monkey with Joya
I was asked recently how to transfer an image to rubber using acetone. I searched the web for a acetone transfer tutorial but couldn’t find a step-by-step tutorial so I made my own video tutorial:
What you need:
image - printed using a laserjet printer (inkjet prints won’t work, there’s something about the toner that won’t transfer); photocopies should also work
acetone - use nail polish remover with acetone or better yet buy acetone at the hardware store
I love Letterboxes. As I’m counting out the strides to the point I hit the final stride and I’m exactly where the author described. (We must have the same length stride). It was just a matter of time. The cache itself was hidden in something we didn’t want to reach into, but keep_on_shinin’ found it. Thanks honey!!
June 21 by Tri_Again
Both keep_on_shinin’ and I enjoy the Letterbox Hybrid caches. We’ll be back to Guelph to do more. This one was a nice one, what an interesting statue of Queen Victoria.
June 16 by vbdcpjw
#87 - We were actually very near here a couple weeks ago, but didn’t have a chance to search for this cache. Glad we found it today - that is another beautiful stamp. Thanks very much!
Fiddleheads had a great idea, she asked me to bring my Ecoscavenger Webbox stamps to the Box ON! Guelph - 2008 event on September 20 2008 (to be held in Riverside Park). I will definitely be taking them and I’ve made up some LTC (letterbox trading cards) as well.
Hopefully those who are attending the event will take some time to do these and get their stamp image/trading card in person. For those who can’t make it to the event but visit the locations and solve the passkey I will mail you a trading card (but you can get them electronically too via Atlas Quest).
I like to leave this note in the letterbox. Most of my letterboxes are also posted on geocaching.com. This note let’s geocachers, who are unfamiliar with letterboxing, know that the stamp remains in the box and is not traded out. It also explains what to do with the stamp. Short and to the point and printed on eye-catching yellow cardstock. Measures approximately 1.5″x2″. I place the cardstock in a small baggie to protect it from moisture and ink damage - could be laminated instead.
Second time lucky …. particularly without the snow! At least I had been in the right spot, but back then things were kinda “frozen in place”….
Our timing could not have been more perfect … all quiet just in the mid-evening, and as we crested the hill there were 4 white-tails staring as us from the path right beside the cache, and 2 more in the woods. They quickly tired of the beagle and casually sauntered deeper into the woods. We followed and watched them across a clearing as they melded into the woods, and a few minutes later two more appeared on the other side of the clearing. After leaving the cache, we also came across a porcupine (very fluffy and bristly) and a young rabbit.
WTL Series
Arboretum Letterbox
July 13 by princess and the monkey
We really liked the tree stamp - it may have inspired us to start our own passport book and get our own stamp!
Batesville
Odonata anisoptera
