Posts in the Past

Geocaching “EVENTS” and Travel Bugs/Coins

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I like my “travelers”.  Sometimes I like them so much that I won’t share them with others by sending them out into the world to move from cache to cache to cache.   Rather I will add them to my personal collection to enjoy. 

For those of you new to the sport/hobby or you simply don’t know travelers – travel bugs, geocoins, pathtags, etc.  are serialized (numbered) items that are placed into a geocache with [...]

Need an Atlantic Puffin Geocoin

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While is was off doing other things I happened to miss Eclectic Penguin’s release of the Atlanting Puffin geocoin. I’ve included an image on the left here of what this coin looks like. 

I have searched a number of places on the Intenet and I have not been able to find anywhere that has this coin available.  If you happen to be one of those collectors that purchased a number of these I would be interested [...]

The Eclectic Penguins Waddled In from England

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You may recall in my earlier post I had been reading about these cute penguin geocoins in a few blog posts and I had to have one.   I tracked down the website where I could actually buy them and placed my order for one copper and one brass finish.

Yesterday (1/15) they waddled through the door… Well I guess technically I must have been doing the waddling because they were nicely packaged in a bubble wrap [...]

Eclectic Penguin Geocoins

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OK… I couldn’t help myself.  I had been reading about this penguin on various blog posts in the blogosphere and well, once I found the correct website to make the purchase I just couldn’t help but buy a pair.  They appear to be elegantly simple and quite charming!

I believe these were actually made by Oakcoins here in the states but the designer and owner is from the UK… His geocaching moniker… Eclectic Penguin of [...]