Kittiwake30

Hi folks. Just wanted to drop a line to fellow Canadians to post our revised, newly-improved, depth-added, ridiculously-informative geocaching website. It includes comprehensive information for both domestic cachers in Newfoundland and Labrador and visitors who are visiting the northeast coast for some of North America's best geocaching. Included are vital information on our caches, as well as guides to inedible berries, aggressive moose, shipwrecks, calf-burning climbs and much more. You can also download maps, brochures and guides in .pdf format. We are particularly proud of our geocaching bingo - an investment in the sanity of family cachers here for extended, multi-day hunts. Whether you are a cacher in Newfoundland and Labrador or anticipating a trip, we hope you will find it helpful and entertaining. Our sincere apologies for the tireless self-promoting. As a not-for-profit network mandated to promote geocaching, we thank you for your time and interest. See it all at here

I can't seem to access province-only cache listings today. Is this a change in the site or a temporary issue? It's quite a nuisance in a country of this size to cull these listings for the Newfoundland ones.

It took a hell of an effort, but the Kittiwake 30 Coastal Caches are now completed to our satisfaction. Placing them involved some terrible winter weather, some semi-spelunking, over 100 kilometres of hiking and thousands of kilometres of driving, some big arguments, a cache lost to sea ice, scraped knees, 20 cigarette tubs, five sets of batteries, one broken strut, three ferry passes, 60 flybites, two archived caches and so on. Some interesting facts about the Kittiwake 30 set of caches: - they are spread across 1,300 kilometres of coastline - 8 are located on islands - 4 are accessible only be ferry - 1 is accessible only by snowmobile - the lowest is 10 feet above sea level - the highest is 1,565 feet above sea level - 3 caches have "Cove" in their name - 3 caches have "Bay" in their name - 24 of 30 caches are within stone's throw of the ocean - on the Kittiwake Coast, there is 1.2 persons for every square mile We hope these caches will bolster geocaching in the central area. Combining these 30 with excellent work by other caches and the Lewisporte Area Geocaching Association has really positioned central Newfoundland as a premiere geocaching destination. Our next task is to complete our web page revisions, map and cacher's guide, all of which we expect to be done by the end of July. Many thanks for all your support throughout.

I'd really like to see Labrador get a bit of a boost with some more caches. We're pleasantly surpised at how many people's visits to the province involve - or revolve around - caching.

I wonder what is required to grow geocaching in Newfoundland and Labrador. It seems we have more caches than hunters ... and it seems that the caches in "urban" areas (if anything in our fine province is truly urban) get a great deal more traffic. Of the caches we've placed, those in convenient locales i.e. along the Trans Canada Corridor, get the most attention ... I wonder about how to get people involved ... I think this is a deeply personal sport, and I wonder how many people would come to a public event ... any thoughts? We are in the process of finalizing our 30 caches and overhauling our website completely. Three of our caches need some small maintenance, then it's off to the races. We are also producing a low-end map and details of our 30 caches for display at tourist information centres. We are also hoping to undertake a bit of a PR campaign to launch them.

We are not a club as such - we are dedicated to the promotion of geocaching on the Kittiwake Coast. To visit the Kittiwake Geocaching Network, visit www.eberg.ca/geocache