traveling cache?

[+Kite and Hawkeye]

So there's something I don't understand...

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=28238

 

It's listed as a traveling cache.. but it's not a cache. It's a stuffed duck. Isn't that, er, a travel bug without tags? It'll never have coordinates of its own, or be hunted on its own, since it will always be inside another cache. I don't understand, then, why it's listed as a 'cache.'

 

Is there a "traveling cache" category? Is this usually what it means? I finally got my head around virtual and locationless caches, but this is a new one for me.

[+Pharmadude]

There is a travelling cache in the Vancouver BC area called "Vancouver Transit" - most recently here:

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=6614

[+Genius Loci]

Here's another one:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=5763

When you find it, you have the option of taking it and stashing it in a new location as long as you post it online soon enough and you keep within a certain area. I believe you can claim it as a 'Find' over and over again if it's been relocated since the last time you visited it. I don't know how successful it's been, and haven't gotten around to hunting for it yet myself. I did notice that several people seem content just to find it and leave it where it is.

 

- Genius Loci ('the guardian spirit of a place')

[+briansnat]

I've heard of travelling caches, but Howie looks like it should be a travel bug to me