Geocaching: Travel Bugs

Travel bugs add a lot of fun to Geocaching in that you can see where the bug has been, in many cases it's been through many countries during its mission, and you can help it on its way by assisting it in the mission objective.



As you can see in the photo above, a travel bug can be attached to anything (as long as it can fit into an actual cache). The bug itself is the tag with the unique identifier and in the photo above we can see a photo key fob with a photo of a cat called Shadow and one of a rubber fob; Luke from the Professor Layton games!

Shadow was easy to move on, she just wants to see the world and to one day see Wiltshire again. We moved her from the canal in Seend over to the Cherhill Downs.

Luke is a bit more difficult, he wants to move to Geocaches with puzzles or stories. So Luke will be with us for a few weeks while we find a puzzle cache to complete. If you have a login for the Geocaching website, you'll be able to see Luke's journey here.

Travel bugs and Cachekinz, among many other Geocaching goodies are available here.
There are also many amazing Geocoins, which can be trackable just like the travel bugs. Here are some pretty awesome navigation themed travel bugs.