Here are a few of the more interesting hides I have found recently. In order to avoid creating any spoilers, I have not identified any of them. The only thing they have in common is that they are all located in Greater Victoria! Cache owners, leave a comment if you recognize your caches here!
EDIT October 2021: I have removed one cache from this gallery. There was a film canister cache on the Lagoon that blended in really well despite having no camouflage whatsoever, but it was screwed on to a tree branch which is against guidelines. Since this article was originally published on the old blog, that cache was archived by a reviewer for that infraction.
This first one is one of the cleverest I have seen. Those re-bar rods don’t usually come out at all, let alone bring a stainless steel nano with them!
The final of a local challenge is located next to a very busy street, and is in a tree full of real cones! It was more than a bit tough.
This one isn’t exactly stealthy, as this stump is not where you’d likely find a bullfrog, and since he’s pretty obviously not real anyway. But still fairly muggle resistant as I had to go off trail a bit to find him! 10/10 for cuteness.
A very tricky hide tucked under a fern in a local park by a hider well-known for tricky disguises! If you’ve read earlier in this blog, you will discern a clue in the picture as to which cache this is.
Saw, drill, drill, screw, insert, load with bison and drop in a pile of similar sticks = sadistic hide! Too bad this one’s hurting a bit now. Part of a popular and challenging series in the West Shore area.
This cache is hidden under what looks, from the top, like a large round rock partly embedded in the ground! But what you see is really all there is with this one. Another part of an aptly-named series in the West Shore area.
This brass nano wouldn’t seem like it would blend in well anywhere that wasn’t a music store! But next to chipped-away bark, it’s nearly invisible from more than a few feet away!
Someone actually poured cement into a mould with a match container embedded in it, to place between a pair of Jersey barriers!
