WWFM 2007 - Atlantic Canada Style
Last Updated on Saturday, 01 December 2007 03:50 Saturday, 24 November 2007 11:06
Locally, there were six events in all four Atlantic provinces with 254 geocachers participating.
Prince Edward Island hosted by RavenGuider
They're happily working on their first 100 finds. Hopefully they were able to pick up some tips from the veteran cachers in attendance. Muggles in the area didn't pay much attention until we broke out the sandwhich tray.... I'm sure that looked weird.
2toSail were the winners of our ready-to-hide-cache doorprize. Logbooks, pencils and FTF pins were also drawn for as secondary prizes.
After TB swapping and story time, we took our group pic. Then it was time to sound the horn again and disperse.
An improptu gathering at Timmies to warm up and continue chatting took place on the other side of the parking lot soon after.
Labrador hosted by ArcticNomad & Avalanche
St. John's hosted by piglet1
I prepared bags to hand out containing log sheets, a participation card, a pencil, a hersheys hug and kiss. and an info sheet on the ACGA for 30 people, but was pleasantly surprised when I ran out of bags to hand out as I had 48 people attend the event.
As luck has it I had extra log sheets with me. It was indeed an awesome day. I had 2 people come 290km just for the event. They drove thru pouring rain the day before just to make the event saying they wouldn't have missed it for anything.
Everything went on schedule. I also had 3 t-shirts, 2 hats, 4 micro cache containers and of course the first to find prize which was an unactivated coin.
I received nothing but favourable comments later and everyone wanting to know when the next event would be. All in all it was a fabulous 15 min.
I would like to thank the ACGA for a t-shirt and the Grand Concourse for 2 t-shirts and 2 hats.
As well a thanks goes to Flipup and GeoJoe for their help in making the event run smoothly.
A grrrrrrrrrreattttttttttt day was had by all.
South Eastern New Brunswick hosted by paulandstacey
Sydney hosted by Stagunner
But, at the appropriate time the whistle was blown , and the event started. Log sheets were handed out and gathered up just a quickly.
The grand sum of Cape Breton Cachers was 16 in attendance. Not to bad for a good bunch on a cold day. The list of things happening during the event were just too numerous to list. We had a few onlookers wondering what we were doing, a very curious security guard and probably a few from the farmers market and the weekly flea market.
The prize for the event was a large ammo can, complete with unregistered TB, a log book, and some swag. VE1BVD accepted this prize happily. so we can expect a new cache appearring in the cache pages soon.
As with all events some cachers waited to mark a milestone. Caperbirder, Hershey1 and Mapper2 joined the 1K elite club. Congratulations to all of them.
Time was running out, the feast was past around. The laughs started as each cacher gladly munched on some left over Halloween candy. After all I think chocolate seemed to be the theme meal for the WWFM events.
:14 Pm the event wound down, a little chilly on the water front, some nice fiddle music playing in the background and we all made our way to our cache buggies and another meeting place for a warm beverage.
The WWFM event was fun and we can't wait until May 2008 so we can gather at another location and enjoy the company of fellow geocachers.
Halifax hosted by Pushing Tin
125 geocachers from many parts of mainland Nova Scotia gathered at the base of Citadel Hill at Grand Parade.
A CTV news crew was on hand to take some video away and show it on that evening supper newscast.
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