Photo competition May 2014 - Travel/Holiday's

[+CaveBadgerMan]

Firstly thank you to Crochetlady and her daughter for choosing my photo from April's competition.

 

I'm getting to travel around with my new job and also have time to have some fun Geocaching adventures, And really enjoying exploring the areas I go. So this month the challenge is to show us all where caching has taken you while on your Travel's/Holiday's.

 

rules are:

 

1) The photo must be cache related and to do with a specific cache (any type including events), caching series or a cache with stunning views while away from home(Can be the UK or overseas) - please include a link to the cache or the GC code so we can see where the picture relates to.

 

2) Maximum of two photos per caching team or cacher

 

4) The winner each month is decided by the winner from the previous month - the new winner starting the thread for the subsequent month. They may set a theme if they wish.

 

5) Given the theme, the photo can be taken at any point through your caching history.

 

That's it - now it's over to you. Hope to see some lovely place's

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Here's my entry for May. The photos below are from when my muggle father and I climbed Snowdon in celebration of his 70^th birthday.

 

The cache in question is the extremely popular 'Summit or submit', which has had over 1,100 finds since it was published in August 2006. My log for my find on this cache is here.

 

The first photo is of my father at the summit, with Llanberis in the background. We climbed the Miners Track in cloud and light rain, but when we hit the ridge just below the summit, the clouds began to clear and the sun came out. It was so nice that we spent well over an hour at the top, chatting with each other and others who'd made the climb up (on foot or by the train!)..

 

We also saw some good examples of the phenomenon of a 'brocken spectre', which is what the second photo shows. I hadn't seen one for what must have been 15 years.

 

All in all, a good trip and a good way for my father and I to mark his milestone birthday.

 

 

 

 

[+sarahmcmur]

Here are my entries - both taken at Port, Co Donegal, Ireland on 15th March while on a caching weekend . One of the most beautiful locations I've ever been to and all because of a cache!! GC2H0BQ

 

 

[+metal-bijou]

Here's mine as I'm travelling in India this year.

 

1000 year old Yoganandiswara Temple by california-jones | GC12RR0| India

 

[+Ranger Roo]

From Burma GC43BK2

 

[+gazooks]

A friend and I were on our last day of a long weekend caching in The Lake District and decided to mop a few caches up near the B&B before we left for home.

This shot was taken near GCM4BT - George Hodgson looking across Derwent water just as the wind dropped.

 

[+hobgoblinkiteflier]

Our most exotic geocaching location was Majorca, last summer. Whilst most tourists stayed on the beach, we ventured off into the prickly hills for a couple of caches. There was one in an underground bunker (but my pictures of that were rubbish) and this one Buena Vista - na Penyal in a cave over looking the resort:

 

Hobgoblin junior dodging the prickly pears on the way up to the cave.

 

We sat here for ages enjoying the slightly cooler temperatures. We had a punnet of cherries and had fun spitting out the stones at the cacti.

[+ivanidea]

I was in Lisbon early this month (on the Queen Victoria), and managed to find a viewpoint to see the 3 Cunard Queens.

 

I was unable to find the nearest cache GC3J66Y (the heat didn't help), but the next nearest one was found GC442KB.

 

[+CaveBadgerMan]

And the winner is ************** hobgoblinkiteflier *************

 

With this lovely view and Hobgoblin junior looking like she's just been caught grabbing the cache.

 

 

I look forward to seeing what Topic you choose.

 

Thanks to all that entered it was tough to choose some great looking places it was a close call

 

Yorkshire Yellow with his shot of his Dad and Ranger Roo with the photo of Burma are both close second and I have starting planning to visit both of these caches when i finish work later in the year.

 

Thanks All

 

CaveBadgerMan

[+hobgoblinkiteflier]

Wow, thanks CaveBadgerMan! There were some great images in the competiton this month so I feel honoured that you chose mine. I will post the theme for the June competition when I get home from work this evening.

[+kushcomfy]

India's Geocaching Event. This event is to meet Indian geocachers or travelling foreign geocachers, with a purpose to develop Indian Geocaching Community, Share stories / Experiences and discuss how to grow Geocaching in India.

 

http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5Y1QC_indias-geocaching-event

 

If you can attend, and share with geocachers you know.

 

[+Shanghai Joe]

Was a theme set for this month (June 2015) ? I can't find a thread for it on the UK forums.