We have just two new traditional caches to report since our last post:

GCBF3MQ Ynys Môn view by ShadowTheNinjaWolf & kiethchaos Traditional D1.5/T1.5
GCBCJP3 TFTC by Clueless_Goose Traditional D5/T1.5

Treasures

Three new Treasure collections have been introduced: Snow globes, Origami animals and Dog figurines.

The Snow globes collect consists of 7 treasures. To collect find:
Any Traditional, Multi-Cache, or Mystery, any size except Micro, Small, or Virtual
with a minimum of 2 Favourite points

The Origami animals collection consists of 14 treasures. To collect find:
Small sized Traditional caches with a minimum of 4 favourite points.

The Dog figurines collection consists of 9 treasures. To collect find:
Any Micro cache with the Dog friendly attribute.

End of Year Souvenirs

As 2025 comes to a close two new souvenirs will be available, Closing 2025 and Unboxing 2026.
Earn Closing 2025 by finding any geocache, attending any Event, or completing an Adventure Lab® Location between December 24th to 31st, 2025.
Earn Unboxing 2026 by finding any geocache, attending any Event, or completing an Adventure Lab® Location from January 1st to 8th, 2026.

TB Race Update

We have just 7 weeks left in our TB race, here is the current leader board:
1) I Met Signal Tag owner ECOBAKE 43.605.5 km
2) Golden Goose owner Clueless_Goose 32,484.8 km
3) Racing Pirate owner Ann@Birdbrook 22,904.7 km
4) GraPeS The Bear owner Bess’s Friends 22,719 km
5) Lackey Tag owner Mossfamilymacc 21,241.3 km
6) DJ’s Dolphin Adventure owner Cwm DJ 20,426.7 km
7) Leap Year Devon Mega 2017 owner FfiLli 16,113.9 km
8) Incy owner sionyn68 16,040.8 km
9) 2025 New Adventure Racing Hummingbird owner wendy2000 16,000.9 km
10) 9 Ususal Suspects Race 2025 Go For It owner escapefromwork 15,911.9 km
11) Compass Winnie owner Bess’s Friends 14,591.4 km
12) 74jen Signal Race Tag owner 74jen 13,233.6 km
13) BONUSTOWN I’M IN A RACE Tag owner lostnwet 5,985.7 km
14) WanderBug the World Traveler owner naturesbyte 4,939.4 km
15) RACING KINGFISHER owner YnysMonBirders 4,481.2 km
16) Travel Sun Geocoin owner WelshDisneyMum80 1,184.6 km
17) Stitch Lackey owner Geojade2013 1,184.6 km
18) Mardi Gras 2015 owner Mossfamilymacc 583.4 km
19) Piratemania Chorley Chuckle owner jude100 194 km
20) Clogging all over the world owner Team Marzipan 0 Km

The total distance traveled by all TB’s, 273,827.4 km.
30 Countries have been visited: Argentina, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Falkland Islands, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, USA, Uruguay

Event Review

GCBC20Q GIFF 2025, Geocaching International Film Festival by 9 Usual Suspects Event D1/T1

This was the 8th GIFF we have hosted our first being at Witch’s Brew, Pwllheli way back in 2015. For a history of GIFF and to take a look at all previous qualifying films visit Geocaching HQ GIFF.

Watching the GIFF films with geocaching friends was a great way to spend a wet miserable Sunday afternoon. As well as the films we enjoyed popcorn, sweets, flapjack, cake and soft drinks. A big thank you goes to everyone for helping set up, Julie for manning the shop & raffle, Jen for the flapjack and making the tea, Pete for manning the projector and tech, and all who helped clear up at the end of the afternoon.

I think we were all in agreement that the films this year were of a higher standard than we have had in previous years.

To vote in the worldwide GIFF People’s Choice Award, go to Official Voting Survey

Here are the results of our voting:
1st Place
The Bison Buddy 5000 by Skimbosh 171
2nd Place
Hard Work by Harogs team 155
3rd Place
If You Hide It… by Team Vlogger aka geocachingvlogger and Seemyshell 144
Joint 4th Place
David CachinBro – First Lamp Post by DNF Hound 139
Never a Straight Path by Justcarlo 139
5th Place
The Island by Blackcoconut 127
Joint 6th Place
Geocaching is a Journey by Defoz 125
Dogeza by nokos team 125
7th Place
Gadget Cacher by PerGremlin team 121
Joint 8th Place
Tree-m Work by GeoBeeps 114
Here’s My Card by Ptowngirl229 114
Flavors of Stealth by CheekyBrit team 114
9th Place
GIFF Planning by Barucci 112
10th Place
Return of the Cache Napper Trailer by ZippyZipperZoo 111
11th Place
2000 by lpoded 109
12th Place
Super Cacher Maintainer by Team Kuropi 107
13th Place
Little Apple Tree by Rassis on tour 101
14th Place
The Inheritance by Maxagri60 team 100
15th Place
The Best Finds Are Other Geocachers by Owlfly 95
16th Place
Orthoceras by Breizh Geocacheurs team 65

Here are a few pictures from the afternoon: