Cache Containers, GPSs and Signature Items

(Updated: 2 September 2007)

We've been "caching" since the end of June 2005, and we've created or placed a few unique cache containers. We've also started creating our own "Signature Items". So far, the people that have found our Signature Items seem to enjoy them and have picked them up. They're invited to keep them, pass them on or use them on their TB (Traveling Bugs).

Anyhow, I thought I would share these pictures with you. I hope this helps you to get your "creative juices" flowing! *s*

Also, if you would like to send me a picture of one of YOUR creations, and you want to have it posted it here, it would be my pleasure!

This is our first hidden cache. We used a plastic, empty "Baby Wipe" container, not painted (in the background of the pic). We've since replaced this cache container with a "camo'd" (camouflaged) plastic tobacco can.

Here is a picture of one of our "camo'd" tobacco cans. Le Tigre washes them out, dries them and spray paints one coat of brown and, once dry, spray paints spots (here and there) with green. Or vice-versa.

As we find more caches, we learn. When we found our first "amo" (ammunition) cache container that we found, le Tigre was quite impressed. We had never heard of anything like it!  So, one rainy Saturday, we headed off to "Roy's Army Surplus" store and picked up our own amo can.

Le Tigre went and cleaned off all the dirt and rust, and gave it a few shots of brown spray paint. This amo cache has since been placed in the woods, as one of his caches.

 

On Ebay, le Tigre purchased an old Magellan Trailblazer GPS.

(See pic, on the right). The seller warned buyers that this GPS would not keep it's power. Le Tigre worked on it quite a bit till finally it "kept" it's power but had difficulty getting the satellite signals. He then decided to give it away (in his amo cache), as a FTF (first-to-find) prize. "LongReacher" now has it in his possession. *s*

The Etrex on the left is my "modern" GPS.

 

 Next, I got the bright idea of buying empty ice cream containers, to hide DEEP in the woods! We went to our local "Pumpkin Patch" - a place that sells fruits, vegetables and ice cream (during the summer). We got 3 containers for 1 buck!

BOY OH BOY!!!  You sure can put a lot of BIG things, in one of those containers! LOL

Le Tigre drilled a LOT of holes in one of these buckets, spray painted it green and then we took plastic (wired) branches and covered the top and sides with plastic branches and big green (plastic) leaves, attached with "tye-wraps" inside this bucket. Now, there's holes in the bucket, right?

We had to then place the REAL cache container INSIDE this bucket.

UPDATE: (21 Nov. 2005)

I have since gotten a picture of

our camo'd container

(see below)

 

 

This is a picture of a plastic ice cream container, now camo'd.

 

Special thanks to my Mom & Dad, who live fairly close to this cache location.

They went out today and took a few pictures, of our "creation". (I had somehow lost all my pictures of this cache container).

As you can tell, under the "right" kind of tree, it could be difficult to find. LOL

 

(21 Nov. 2005)

 

     

From ultra "big", to ultra "small". This is one of our caches that very few cachers have found, so far. Both pictures are not very clear (on purpose), so as not to divulge what the container is. But it is pretty small! LOL

We came across some cache containers that were taped with "camo" tape. So off we went to Canadian Tire and bought a roll of "Camouflage Tape", for a very reasonable price. Here, on the left, you have an empty "Pringles" chips container - the plastic ones.

On the right, is an empty vitamin pill bottle.

Le tigre painted the covers, once again.

 

I purchased a fake rock, on Ebay. I had a hard time finding just the "right" spot to hide this one, but I think I've succeeded. But unfortunately, I had to put quite a few hints on my cache page, otherwise it would still be there, for future generations of Geocachers, waiting to be found! LOL

Le Tigre cut up some pieces of wood, into squares. I then drew the Geo Log on these pieces of wood and painted them. Le Tigre then pierced a hole in each piece and added a "bead chain", with clasp. We put our personal stamps and put our names, on the back of each one. These, we call our "Signature Items" - We drop them off in caches, that we find and let the next person that picks it up, decide what they want to do with it. *s*

Here are a few of our Signature Items, that are completed or almost completed. 

"Team Tkd" won this amo container (full of goodies) from the "Nova Scotia GeoCaching Cachemas Party Event", held in Nova Scotia, November 12th, 2005. He has informed me that he plans on placing this amo container in a VERY SPECIAL PLACE. LOL

"Tucats" painted this beautiful container, and both have graciously allowed me to post it, on my page!

(20 November 2005)

I finally buckled down and finished the four (4) "Signal the Frog" Signature Items, today. As these Signature Items took a bit longer, I decided to only make 4.

Call them "Limited Edition" if you wish. LOL

(20 November 2005)

 I got the bright idea of making "Mini GPSs, as signature items. They are approx. 1" X 2" and 1/4" thick.

 

 Le Tigre is painting his in blue, as his "etrex" is blue and

mine are yellow, like MY "etrex". *s*

 

A close-up picture will be added, once they are finalized. Right now, there's an awful lot of details to paint, on them.

We hope to paint a total of 20 "Mini GPSs"...

 

And hope that they will be well appreciated by

whomever manages to "nab" one!

(5 April 2006)

 

Here's a picture of our "Finished" product.

I don't think we'll be making any more, as these take a rather long time to paint (lots of details).

(4 June 2006)

Le Tigre and I made these, this spring (2007). We still have quite a few, as we didn't get a chance to do much caching, this summer. Hope to drop some off, here and there, this fall/winter.

(2 September 2007)

 

Made 11 of these "GeoDolls", just recently. Most of them have either a "Log Book", or a "Pencil". We've written our names, on the back of each doll.

They're about 4" high. We should be dropping them off in caches, here and there, soon.

 (2 September 2007)

 

 

 

Other Neat Geocaching (container) Sites

 

Hiding your First Cache

(Geocaching Web Site)

Elements of Style in Geocaching

(GU - Geocacher University)

How to Create a Cache Container

(CGA - Georgia Geocachers Association)

Preparing a Geocache Container

(Allen Lacy)

Creating a Geocache

(Annette Lamb & Larry Johnson)

The Perfect Geocache Container

(Kingsley-Hughes.Com)

 

 

What To Do When You Find a Geocache

(Dummies.Com)

 

CT Cachers First Tutorial

(How to create a fake "rock")

 

 

 

 

 
   

 

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(Updated: 2 September 2007)