5...4...3...2...1...
Longtime California-based cacher kmfriend retrieved Jacaru's Knockout Ferrari Travel Bug from Ice Cant See the Tide From Here and placed it into this cache 2.06 miles away, from where KF was collected the same day by fellow Californian composter1.
Meanwhile, with 24 hours to go until Elimination Day in The Great Travel Bug Knockout, Happy Humphrey's missing Scary Halloween Monster has barely a ghost of a chance of surviving...
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Monday 28 February 2011
Sunday 27 February 2011
BraveHeart retrieved already, 2 days left for Scary Halloween Monster?
5...4...3...2...1...
Good news for current Knockout leader, Blid435's BraveHeart Travel Bug which has already been retrieved by newbie cachers TheHamiltonsNZ, on their very first day of caching.
Bad news for Happy Humphrey's Scary Halloween Monster TB which is still missing without trace. Possibly it's like a trackable Germelshausen and only reappears every Halloween...
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Good news for current Knockout leader, Blid435's BraveHeart Travel Bug which has already been retrieved by newbie cachers TheHamiltonsNZ, on their very first day of caching.
Bad news for Happy Humphrey's Scary Halloween Monster TB which is still missing without trace. Possibly it's like a trackable Germelshausen and only reappears every Halloween...
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Saturday 26 February 2011
BraveHeart back in a cache, Scary Halloween Monster still AWOL
5...4...3...2...1...
Despite the Christchurch earthquake disaster on New Zealand's South Island, caching has continued on the North Island, with cacher cabhassett placing Blid435's Braveheart Travel Bug into this cache in Taupo township on the northern shore of New Zealand's largest lake, Lake Taupo. As this is the 5th cache that Braveheart has visited whilst in the possession of cabhassett, no distance has been added due to the only the first dip counts rule, despite which BH has still travelled more than twice as far as it's closest competitor in The Great Travel Bug Knockout.
Unfortunately nothing more has been heard from Happy Humphrey's Scary Halloween Monster Travel Bug, meaning that SHM is currently the most likely TB to be kicked out of the Knockout at the March 1st Elimination.
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Despite the Christchurch earthquake disaster on New Zealand's South Island, caching has continued on the North Island, with cacher cabhassett placing Blid435's Braveheart Travel Bug into this cache in Taupo township on the northern shore of New Zealand's largest lake, Lake Taupo. As this is the 5th cache that Braveheart has visited whilst in the possession of cabhassett, no distance has been added due to the only the first dip counts rule, despite which BH has still travelled more than twice as far as it's closest competitor in The Great Travel Bug Knockout.
Unfortunately nothing more has been heard from Happy Humphrey's Scary Halloween Monster Travel Bug, meaning that SHM is currently the most likely TB to be kicked out of the Knockout at the March 1st Elimination.
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Friday 25 February 2011
Is the smile about to be wiped off of Happy Humphrey's face?
5...4...3...2...1...
It's almost Elimination Day again at The Great Travel Bug Knockout and it looks like Happy Humphrey's Scary Halloween Monster Travel Bug, which hasn't been seen for 3 months, will soon be no more than a slightly spooky memory. Still, strange things happen in the world of geocaching trackables, and SHM may yet make a surprise reappearance.
In other Knockout news; Jacaru's Knockout Ferrari TB has made some moves, but I'm not quite sure of the order they were made in. I've contacted the cachers responsible and it seems that, although KF is currently logged in the inventory of American cacher VampireGoldfish, it appears that VampireGoldfish retrieved Knockout Ferrari from The Place to Play In Morro Bay, then placed it into this cache 3.76 miles away. It was retrieved from that cache the following day by cacher think1011 who then later the same day placed it into this cache 0.38 of a mile away, where it was discovered by VampireGoldfish again. Of course, if this proves to be incorrect, I can adjust the distance travelled later.
Somewhat simpler to follow is the latest move by cooper troopers' the noble traveller, which has been placed into this cache in southern Poland, close to the border with The Czech Republic, and 58.62 miles West of the cache that is the present home of lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 TB. This move has added 1241.01 miles to tnt's total distance, sufficient to move it ahead of HoG1 into 4th place overall in The Great Travel Bug Knockout.
Finally, as more than one cacher has now logged that Grizzly Pair's Quatchi TB as missing from the cache that it is logged into, I've marked the friendly Bigfoot as whereabouts unknown.
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It's almost Elimination Day again at The Great Travel Bug Knockout and it looks like Happy Humphrey's Scary Halloween Monster Travel Bug, which hasn't been seen for 3 months, will soon be no more than a slightly spooky memory. Still, strange things happen in the world of geocaching trackables, and SHM may yet make a surprise reappearance.
In other Knockout news; Jacaru's Knockout Ferrari TB has made some moves, but I'm not quite sure of the order they were made in. I've contacted the cachers responsible and it seems that, although KF is currently logged in the inventory of American cacher VampireGoldfish, it appears that VampireGoldfish retrieved Knockout Ferrari from The Place to Play In Morro Bay, then placed it into this cache 3.76 miles away. It was retrieved from that cache the following day by cacher think1011 who then later the same day placed it into this cache 0.38 of a mile away, where it was discovered by VampireGoldfish again. Of course, if this proves to be incorrect, I can adjust the distance travelled later.
Somewhat simpler to follow is the latest move by cooper troopers' the noble traveller, which has been placed into this cache in southern Poland, close to the border with The Czech Republic, and 58.62 miles West of the cache that is the present home of lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 TB. This move has added 1241.01 miles to tnt's total distance, sufficient to move it ahead of HoG1 into 4th place overall in The Great Travel Bug Knockout.
Finally, as more than one cacher has now logged that Grizzly Pair's Quatchi TB as missing from the cache that it is logged into, I've marked the friendly Bigfoot as whereabouts unknown.
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Monday 21 February 2011
The Bus stops, but Love & Peace keeps moving
Cachers Sweeney Toddlers have placed castlegrice's George's Fun Bus 2 Travel Bug into this letterbox hybrid cache in Palacerigg Country Park in North Lanarkshire. As this placement came after Sweeney Toddlers had previously dipped GFB2 several times, no milage has been added to it's official distance travelled in The Great Travel Bug Knockout.
As George's Fun Bus 2 was being placed into a 5½ years old cache in Scotland, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) TB was being retrieved from a 1-day old cache in Canada. The First-to-Find of Y Not #14 turned her nose up at LaP(Maan), but 2nd-to-Find, local cacher sunpeaks, found Hediya's trackable irresistable.
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As George's Fun Bus 2 was being placed into a 5½ years old cache in Scotland, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) TB was being retrieved from a 1-day old cache in Canada. The First-to-Find of Y Not #14 turned her nose up at LaP(Maan), but 2nd-to-Find, local cacher sunpeaks, found Hediya's trackable irresistable.
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Sunday 20 February 2011
Hazards of Geocaching 1 reaches South Pole (land, that is!)
Alright, this should be easy to follow; Spanish cacher andrewini retrieved lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer Travel Bug from a cache in Spain, then 5 days later traded it to Portuguese cacher lipaxana (what for, I don't know), then the following day it was grabbed from lipaxana by her regular caching partner, fellow Portuguese semi-muggle, who then placed it into this cache in a bookshop-cum-café in the historic city of Kraków in Poland, adding 1242.25 miles to HoG 1's distance travelled, propelling the little bovine into 4th place overall in The Great Travel Bug Knockout.
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Y Not add 35.74 miles to Love and Peace (Maan)'s race distance?
Canadian cacher RPayment has placed Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) Travel Bug into the latest of his own Y Not series of caches, adding 35.74 miles to LaP's distance travelled. Love and Peace (Maan) has certainly visited some interesting places in the first few months of The Great Travel Bug Knockout, it's current location being on the edge of the flood-plain community of Pitt Meadows, much of which is built on reclaimed land drained as a result of settlers from The Netherlands constructing a series of dykes in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Scroll down to the bottom of this page for current official Knockout standings
Saturday 19 February 2011
Knockout Ferrari finds a parking spot as The Skylark sets sail
Rejoicing in Carlton this evening as Jacaru's Knockout Ferrari Travel Bug has been placed into this cache in Morro Bay, California, after being in the possession of cacher comstock for the last 3 months. This placement has added 163.99 miles to KF's distance travelled, consolidating it's current 2nd place in The Great Travel Bug Knockout. Not only has Knockout Ferrari been in action today, but Wemnog's The Skylark TB has been retrieved from the cache that it was resting in by Derbyshire-based cachers woodlands7.
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Friday 18 February 2011
Braveheart extends it's lead
New Zealand cacher cabhassett dipped Blid435's Braveheart Travel Bug in this cache in Napier, New Zealand, extending it's lead in The Great Travel Bug Knockout by 61.79 miles. Cabhassett then dipped Braveheart into this cache, this cache and this cache, none of which adds milage for the purposes of The Knockout due to contravention of rule no.3 Only The First Move By A Cacher will Count.
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A very brief stop in Ireland for the noble traveller
I was expecting cooper troopers' the noble traveller to have quite a wait for retrieval from the remote Irish cache that it was placed into yesterday by cachers DdeG, only for the little Travel Bug to have already been picked up by newbie cacher Anulka, who intends to take tnt to Poland (also the current destination of lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 TB).
Here's a souvenir photo of the noble traveller visit to the emerald isle;
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Here's a souvenir photo of the noble traveller visit to the emerald isle;
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The noble traveller materialises in the top 4
Irish cachers DdeG have placed cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB into this remote but beautiful cache in The Irish Republic, between Kilgeever and Louisburgh. This has added 622.56 miles to tnt's distance travelled, enabling the little silver TB to move up to 4th place overall in The Great Travel Bug Knockout. Did the noble traveller pass through the space/time continuum to reach Ireland? Well, no, actually it went by bus;
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and then by aeroplane!
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Thursday 17 February 2011
All of the Top 5 now being held by cachers
The current leader of The Great Travel Bug Knockout, Blid435's Braveheart Travel Bug, has been retrieved from the cache that it was resting in by New Zealand-based cacher cabhassett, and the current third-placed entry, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) TB, has been picked up by Canadian cacher RPayment, which now means that all of the current top 5 are in the possession of cachers.
Another entry that appears to be in someone's hands, but unfortunately not those of a cacher, is Grizzly Pair's Quatchi TB, which has been reported as missing from the Derbyshire cache that it is logged into. If a second cacher reports it as missing I will mark it as whereabouts unknown.
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Another entry that appears to be in someone's hands, but unfortunately not those of a cacher, is Grizzly Pair's Quatchi TB, which has been reported as missing from the Derbyshire cache that it is logged into. If a second cacher reports it as missing I will mark it as whereabouts unknown.
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Tuesday 15 February 2011
Will Karon's Knockout Racer soon be in Pole position?
Lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer Travel Bug has been retrieved from the Spanish cache that it was resting in by local cacher andrewini, who is planning to relocate HoG1 to Poland.
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Monday 14 February 2011
A tale of distance allowed ...and distance disallowed!
Cacher Nottinghamman has placed wemnog's The Skylark Travel Bug into this interesting Derbyshire cache, overlooking Sir Richard Arkwright's historic Masson Mills, adding 6.72 miles to it's distance sailed. It may be moored here for some time as this is quite a tricky cache to find; I logged a DNF myself on it a few weeks ago and a cacher has already logged a DNF since The Skylark was dropped into it.
The Skylark is barely a quarter of a mile ahead of castlegrice's George's Fun Bus 2 TB in the current Great Travel Bug Knockout placings, after the little VW was retrieved from the Glasgow cache that it was (briefly) resting in by Scottish cachers Sweeney Toddlers. The puntastic Toddlers then dipped GFB2 into this cache, adding 7.8 miles to it's distance travelled, and then this one, adding nothing, and then this one, again adding nothing. The reason that the last two dips adding nothing to GFB2's distance is because only the first placement by a cacher counts towards a Travel Bug's total distance.
Speaking of disallowed milage, current Knockout leader, Blid435's Braveheart TB has been placed into this cache, near to the ghost town of Opepe, but as with George's Fun Bus 2's most recent moves, no distance travelled will be added to Braveheart's official Knockout distance.
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The Skylark is barely a quarter of a mile ahead of castlegrice's George's Fun Bus 2 TB in the current Great Travel Bug Knockout placings, after the little VW was retrieved from the Glasgow cache that it was (briefly) resting in by Scottish cachers Sweeney Toddlers. The puntastic Toddlers then dipped GFB2 into this cache, adding 7.8 miles to it's distance travelled, and then this one, adding nothing, and then this one, again adding nothing. The reason that the last two dips adding nothing to GFB2's distance is because only the first placement by a cacher counts towards a Travel Bug's total distance.
Speaking of disallowed milage, current Knockout leader, Blid435's Braveheart TB has been placed into this cache, near to the ghost town of Opepe, but as with George's Fun Bus 2's most recent moves, no distance travelled will be added to Braveheart's official Knockout distance.
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Saturday 12 February 2011
Is George's Fun Bus 2 a museum piece?
Cacher Mr Truffles has placed castlegrice's George's Fun Bus 2 Travel Bug into this interesting cache, just outside Glasgow's new Riverside Museum, a.k.a. The Glasgow Museum of Transport, described by one architecture critic as resembling "a steel tsunami". This placement has added 210.03 miles to GFB2's distance travelled, enabling the little bus to leapfrog up into 11th place overall in The Great Travel Bug Knockout.
In other news, cacher Nottinghamman has retrieved Wemnog's The Skylark TB from the Derbyshire cache that it was (briefly) resting in.
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In other news, cacher Nottinghamman has retrieved Wemnog's The Skylark TB from the Derbyshire cache that it was (briefly) resting in.
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Friday 11 February 2011
the noble traveller travels a little further
French cacher daniel95 yesterday placed cooper troopers' the noble traveller into this cache in the Jardin des Plantes in central Paris, adding 12.02 miles to it's distance travelled. It was immediately retrieved by the next cachers along, DdeG from The Republic of Ireland, who intend to add a few hundred miles to tnt's distance travelled. Will the other entrants in The Great Travel Bug Knockout be green with envy?
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Thursday 10 February 2011
A rare sighting of the elusive Bigfoot
Although Cuckoo's Nook is currently disabled, little-known caching team ginger_bobs retrieved Grizzly Pair's Quatchi - Grizzly's Knockout Racer Travel Bug prior to the cache going missing and have placed it into this cache back in Derbyshire, near Bretby, adding 21¼ miles to it's distance travelled.
The Cache Owner of Quatchi's new temporary home is also the owner of an entry in The Great Travel Bug Knockout; Voodoo Whodo What You Don't Dare Do People (Racer Bug), which reminds me that he has recently changed his caching name from geohunter-x to G-X, so I've updated the leaderboard to match.
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The Cache Owner of Quatchi's new temporary home is also the owner of an entry in The Great Travel Bug Knockout; Voodoo Whodo What You Don't Dare Do People (Racer Bug), which reminds me that he has recently changed his caching name from geohunter-x to G-X, so I've updated the leaderboard to match.
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Wednesday 9 February 2011
Half Hearted still halfway up the leaderboard
Oceanblue07970's Half Hearted Travel Bug has been placed into this cache in the Forest of Longuenée in France, adding 12.99 miles to it's distance travelled, keeping the shiny little bug solidly in the middle of the leaderboard of The Great Travel Bug Knockout.
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Tuesday 8 February 2011
Love and Peace (Maan) edges a little closer
Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) Travel Bug has been placed into it's 9th cache (it's 6th since arriving in Canada), adding 28.64 miles to it's distance travelled. The cache that it is now resting in is this one, within the grounds of the studio of sculptor Kevin Stone, who specialises in large stainless steel works.
Disappointing news for Grizzly Pair, as the cache that their Quatchi TB was logged into has probably been muggled. If this is confirmed, I'll mark Quatchi as whereabouts unknown.
At this rate, it's possible that there won't be any Bugs left in circulation by the end of the 17 months; however one that definitely still is in The Great Travel Bug Knockout is lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1- Karon's Knockout Racer, as proven by this photograph taken by the most recent finder of the cache that it is in;
Disappointing news for Grizzly Pair, as the cache that their Quatchi TB was logged into has probably been muggled. If this is confirmed, I'll mark Quatchi as whereabouts unknown.
At this rate, it's possible that there won't be any Bugs left in circulation by the end of the 17 months; however one that definitely still is in The Great Travel Bug Knockout is lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1- Karon's Knockout Racer, as proven by this photograph taken by the most recent finder of the cache that it is in;
There it is, just to the left of the cigarette lighter!!!
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Monday 7 February 2011
Lift-Off for George's Fun Bus 2
Doncaster's Travel Bug Hotel - *AIRPORT RUN-A-WAY* has indeed proven to be a departure lounge for castlegrice's George's Fun Bus 2 Travel Bug which has been retrieved by experienced Rotherham based cacher (both as finder and placer) Mr Truffles.
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Scroll down to the bottom of this page for official current placings in The Great Travel Bug Knockout
Saturday 5 February 2011
Playing catch-up!
I'm back!
I'm sorry for the lack of updates over the last week, but computer bugs have intervened. Nevermind, The Great Travel Bug Knockout is still in full swing, but not for thejellybabies' My Little Eye TB, whose hopes blinked out on February 1st. Bizarrely enough, someone has sinced logged a retrieval on it, but too late!
Other movers and shakers over the last week have been;
Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) Travel Bug, which has been retrieved by Canadian cachers teammelbert;
cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB, which was placed into this cache in a northern suburb of Paris, adding 164.45 miles to it's distance travelled and moving up one place in the overall Knockout rankings. Only 4 days later tnt was retrieved by French cacher daniel95. Mention of the noble traveller gives me a good excuse to use this picture;
of tnt before being placed in it's starting cache. Always nice to add an extra photo to the blog!
Another Bug to add to it's distance travelled was Wemnog's The Skylark which was placed into this popular TB hotel, adding 110.83 miles to it's distance travelled. Local East Midlands cacher plantsman soon retrieved the little dinghy and moved it along to this well-researched Derbyshire cache, adding a further 17.28 miles, giving The Skylark an official Knockout distance travelled of 242.99 miles.
Finally, what could be described as a negative move rather than a positive one, as Happy Humphrey's Scary Halloween Monster has been marked missing and I've therefore marked the frightening little TB as current whereabouts unknown. This is especially relevant as SHM is in 15th and last place of the surviving entries in The Great Travel Bug Knockout.
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I'm sorry for the lack of updates over the last week, but computer bugs have intervened. Nevermind, The Great Travel Bug Knockout is still in full swing, but not for thejellybabies' My Little Eye TB, whose hopes blinked out on February 1st. Bizarrely enough, someone has sinced logged a retrieval on it, but too late!
Other movers and shakers over the last week have been;
Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) Travel Bug, which has been retrieved by Canadian cachers teammelbert;
cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB, which was placed into this cache in a northern suburb of Paris, adding 164.45 miles to it's distance travelled and moving up one place in the overall Knockout rankings. Only 4 days later tnt was retrieved by French cacher daniel95. Mention of the noble traveller gives me a good excuse to use this picture;
of tnt before being placed in it's starting cache. Always nice to add an extra photo to the blog!
Another Bug to add to it's distance travelled was Wemnog's The Skylark which was placed into this popular TB hotel, adding 110.83 miles to it's distance travelled. Local East Midlands cacher plantsman soon retrieved the little dinghy and moved it along to this well-researched Derbyshire cache, adding a further 17.28 miles, giving The Skylark an official Knockout distance travelled of 242.99 miles.
Finally, what could be described as a negative move rather than a positive one, as Happy Humphrey's Scary Halloween Monster has been marked missing and I've therefore marked the frightening little TB as current whereabouts unknown. This is especially relevant as SHM is in 15th and last place of the surviving entries in The Great Travel Bug Knockout.
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