Monthly Review - January 2019

Well...

We came very close....

but did NOT get the big number

we were hoping for...

A quick look at the numbers for
January 2019:

Total Caches found: 97

Traditionals: 33
Multi: 1
Virtual: 1
Mystery/Puzzle: 57
Events: 5

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FTFs in January: None

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Caching Days in January: 9

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Places We Geocached In During January:

Virginia -  97 finds

Caches which received
Favorite Points from us in January: 

1. GC7V4ZH - Icy U in Smithfield - hidden by: Chihuahuak94me - located in Smithfield, Virginia
2. GC81CD9 - Lady in the Park - hidden by: MillerExpeditionCo - located in Portsmouth, Virginia
3. GC80P05 - HD JP Geoart #1 - hidden by FriendsofHDJP - located in Charles City County, Virginia
4. GC81WFY - Bellamy Plantation Park - hidden by Claytonrl1844  - located in Virginia Beach, Virginia
5. GC4Z93K - The Old Men and Boys II - hidden by Cheerdiva - located in Petersburg, Virginia
6. GC6YM6K - Not on Hull Street (HSHS) - hidden by HikeVirginia - located in Richmond, Virginia
7. GC7B656 - The Virginia War Memorial - Virtual Reward - hidden by fishgeek - located in Richmond, Virginia
8. GCXW7F - Faithful (Richmond Landmark Series) - hidden by MissingSomething - located in Richmond, Virginia
9. GC59RED - Artful Adventure - hidden by Indigo-Montoya - located in Richmond, Virginia

January Caches Awarded the

"COVETED" SNAP!!! Cache of the Day Award:

1. GC81CD9 - Lady in the Park - hidden by: MillerExpeditionCo - located in Portsmouth, Virginia
2. GC81WFY - Bellamy Plantation Park - hidden by Claytonrl1844  - located in Virginia Beach, Virginia
3. GCXW7F - Faithful (Richmond Landmark Series) - hidden by MissingSomething - located in Richmond, Virginia

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New Souvenirs Earned during January:

Hello 2019

Other Accomplishments during January

- Finally filled in our Geocaching Finds Calendar

AND...

we completed the HD JP Geoart!!!

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A peek into things ahead.

Nana & I will be archiving some of the SNAP!!! caches in and

around Suffolk to make room for some new caches.

Here is a list of the geocaches that will be archived.

IF you still need to find these - get to them

soon as they are scheduled to disappear!!!

GC2319B - Suffolk History #001

GC2XJ24 - Another P&G

GC6BBVV - Nana thinks Papa Has SNAPPED!!!

GC3XA5J - Lone Star Archery

GC3XA5J - Lone Star Archery

GC3XA3T - Can you see the "Waterfall"

GC3WVMY - Another Lone Star Cache

GC3WVM2 - Lakeview

GC3WVJF - The Hobbit Cache

GC3WVR1 - Lonestar Fir

GC3WVHX - Beauregard's Booty

GC71HW2 - Stuart - Phase I of the Minion Invasion

GC6ZD6N - Dave - Phase I of the Minion Invasion

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Upcoming Events we will be attending!

There are no events "published" in Hampton Roads
area but I understand there will be a 3rd Tuesday
event up on the peninsula in February.
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 That is all for now

Till next time...

Don't forget to visit our favorite Geocaching Store

Space Coast Geo-Store

Stay Safe & Keep Caching!!!

and...

we are exactly 3 finds away from...

Suffolk Nana & Papa

 - - - or just plain ol' - - -

SNAP!!! 

#geocaching

#gogeocaching

#SNAPgeocaching

#geocache

On Twitter at: @SNAPgeocaching

On Instagram at: snap_geocaching

The WINNER is......

So, in our last blog we showed you the 13 finalists for the

2018 "SUPER-COVETED" SNAP!!! 

Cache of the Year Award

If you didn't read that blog - here is a link.

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In 3rd Place...

A really really good puzzle cache!!!

GC6M6JX - Denizens Of The Deep

- hidden by steve-n-kim

- located in Virginia Beach Virginia

The Runner-Up for the 2017 Year:

GC5RMA6 - Mrs. geocat's Trackamobile

- hidden by geocat_

- located in Mongomery County Ohio

After much consideration, and numerous
discussions between Nana & I

The Winner is...

GC8FBF - Stone Faced

- hidden by camp637

- located in Cook County Illinois (downtown Chicago)

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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UPCOMING EVENTS 

 in and around the Hampton Roads area.

 Mark your calendars – hope to see you at some of these events!

GC815VE

Saturday – January 19, 2019 – Norfolk

Chrysler Treasures M & G #7 - The Barry Museum

Located on ODU Campus

1 PM Till 2 PM

GC81Z9B

Sunday – January 20, 2019 – Chesapeake

Super Blood Wolf Lunar Eclipse of January 20, 2019

Located near public boat ramp on the Dismal Swamp Canal

9:30 PM Till ????

GC821NR

Thursday – January 24, 2019 – Chesapeake

AACC #123

Moe’s off of Eden Way

4 PM Till 5:45 PM

 That is all for now

Till next time...

Don't forget to visit our favorite Geocaching Store

Space Coast Geo-Store

Stay Safe & Keep Caching!!!

and...

we are less than 50 finds away from...

Suffolk Nana & Papa

 - - - or just plain ol' - - -

SNAP!!! 

#geocaching

#gogeocaching

#SNAPgeocaching

#geocache

On Twitter at: @SNAPgeocaching

On Instagram at: snap_geocaching

Who will be named the WINNER????

2018 Finalists!!!

First of all, we want to thank all you readers out there:

1)  those that take the time to read our blog

2) those that leave feedback or drop us a note, an e-mail

3) or those that come up to us at a meet n greet just to say Hi!

and everyone else.  

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I guess a brief history lesson would be appropriate here.
In our second year of caching, while traveling back to Suffolk
after a long day of caching, we would talk about the best
geocache of day.  It didn't take long for this to develop into
The "COVETED" SNAP!!! Cache of the Day Award.

The idea of a Cache of the year came to us in 2011.
We took each of the winners of the Cache of the Day and laid them
all out and eventually came down to 3 or 4 best of the year.

This year, just like last year and the years before,

we are having a terrible time figuring out who the winner is.

So far,  and it has been VERY HARD - we have worked on the list and narrowed our choice down a little.

 We will continue to work our list down and name

the winner with the next week!

So, here are the FINAL 13!

Note: they are listed in the order we found them.

Back in February we joined took a trip with visit our grand-daughter Juli who is working and going to school at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, TN.

while there, we of course, geocached around the area!

GCKB6J - "Rose Station"... A lil' Tazewell history....

 - hidden by groundsquirrel & chunky chipmunk

- located in Clairborne County Tennessee

GC3Q3BR - Zodiacache Series - Capricorn the Goat

 - hidden by Ol'Fogie

- located in Clairborne County Tennessee

Alex got to milk at goat near the Capricorn cache!!!

Probably the best puzzle cache we found during the year:

GC6M6JX - Denizens Of The Deep

- hidden by steve-n-kim

- located in Virginia Beach Virginia

In April we took a little trip to Senoia Georgia to

visit "The Walking Dead" area.  Of course, there was geocaching involved...

GC20 - Marooned

- hidden by Jeff Andrews (now cared for by Lakebum)

- located Forsyth County Georgia

On the way to Marooned

GC36BKD - Elvis in...

- hidden by T&Bburnett

- located in Coweta County Georgia

Back home in Tidewater a local cacher hid the area's

first Reverse Wherigo geocache - we were First to Find!!!

GC7N4FE - Smithfield's Reverse Wherigo

- hidden by chihuahuak94me

- located in Isle of Wight County Virginia

In late May and part of June, Nana & I took a 21 day road trip to

to GeoWoodstock and then added geocaching finds in 8 new states!!!

GC9F8 - Pioneer's Honor

- hidden by Ender1701

- located in Hamilton County Ohio

GC5RMA6 - Mrs. geocat's Trackamobile

- hidden by geocat_

- located in Mongomery County Ohio

GC8FBF - Stone Faced

- hidden by camp637

- located in Cook County Illinois (downtown Chicago)

GC4K4QN - There's A Bug On The Bump On The Log

- hidden by ottieolsen

- located in Thomas County Kansas

GCD672 - Schnurbusch Karst Window

- hidden by thehairyhillbilly

- located in Perry County Missouri

GC7B8A0 - Colonial Williamsburg - Virtual Reward

- hidden by Scottish_Calvaryman

- located in WIlliamsburg Virginia

Last but not least, in September we visited the Woodbooger Crew

in Norton Virginia for their annual celebration: 

GC7VAJT - WBGT--Tracking the Woodbooger

- hidden by Woodbooger Crew & GR8CACHERS

- located in Norton Virginia

I met the Woodbooger!

Nana & I will continue our struggle to pare this list down to a final winner.

We will try to make the final announcement within a week!!!

Monthly Review - December 2018

December was quite a month!!!

Nana and I took our second cruise on Carnival Cruise Lines

But the month ended with both of us catching a bad case of the FLU!!!
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December Monthly Review

A quick look at the numbers for December:

Total Caches found: 24

Traditionals: 13
Multi Cache: 1
Events: 4
Earthcaches: 2 

Virtual: 4
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FTFs in December: None

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Caching Days in December: 9

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Places We Geocached In During December:

Virginia -  14 finds

North Carolina - 2 finds

South Carolina - 1 find

Turks and Caicos Islands - 3 finds
Dominican Republic - 3 finds
Bahamas - 1 find 

Caches which received Favorite Points from us in December: 

1. GC80MW2 - Soccer Anyone? - hidden by: J&Leebee - located in Poquoson, Virginia
2. GC80MWY - Poquoson Museum - hidden by: J&Leebee - located in Poquoson, Virginia
3. GC7WNZ3 - LEARN AND DISCOVER - hidden by coquipr78 - located in Poquoson, Virginia
4. GC7T5AY - Geo-buddies - hidden by Kelgorthon - located in Hampton, Virginia
5. GC563E - H.L. Hunley - hidden by Civilwarranger - located in Charleston, South Carolina

December Caches Awarded the

"COVETED" SNAP!!! Cache of the Day Award:

1. GC80MW2 - Soccer Anyone? - hidden by: J&Leebee - located in Poquoson

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New Souvenirs Earned during December:

Oh, and we ended the year with our Total Find Count at 9900!!!

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A peek into things ahead.

Nana & I will be archiving some of the SNAP!!! caches in and

around Suffolk to make room for some new caches.

Here is a list of the geocaches that will be archived.

IF you still need to find these - get to them

soon as they are scheduled to disappear!!!

GC2319B - Suffolk History #001

GC2XJ24 - Another P&G

GC6BBVV - Nana thinks Papa Has SNAPPED!!!

GC3XA5J - Lone Star Archery

GC3XA5J - Lone Star Archery

GC3XA3T - Can you see the "Waterfall"

GC3WVMY - Another Lone Star Cache

GC3WVM2 - Lakeview

GC3WVJF - The Hobbit Cache

GC3WVR1 - Lonestar Fir

GC3WVHX - Beauregard's Booty

GC71HW2 - Stuart - Phase I of the Minion Invasion

GC6ZD6N - Dave - Phase I of the Minion Invasion

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Upcoming Events we will be attending!

GC81NTB

Tuesday – January 15, 2019 – Virginia Beach 

Third Tuesday Burgers & Beer

Rick’s Diner

6 PM Till 8 PM

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GC815VE

Saturday – January 19, 2019 – Norfolk 

Chrysler Treasures M & G #7 - The Barry Museum

Located on ODU Campus

1 PM Till 2 PM

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GC81Z9B

Sunday – January 20, 2019 – Chesapeake 

Super Blood Wolf Lunar Eclipse of January 20, 2019

Located near public boat ramp on the Dismal Swamp Canal

9:30 PM Till ????

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GC821NR

Thursday – January 24, 2019 – Chesapeake 

AACC #123

Moe’s off of Eden Way

4 PM Till 5:45 PM

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Who will be named the WINNER???

of the "Super-Coveted" SNAP!!!

Cache of 2018????

The answer will be posted here in a few days!!!

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 That is all for now

Till next time...

Don't forget to visit our favorite Geocaching Store

Space Coast Geo-Store

Stay Safe & Keep Caching!!!

and...
we are less than 100 finds away from...

Suffolk Nana & Papa

 - - - or just plain ol' - - -

SNAP!!! 

#geocaching

#gogeocaching

#SNAPgeocaching

#geocache

On Twitter at: @SNAPgeocaching

On Instagram at: snap_geocaching