Geocaching Australia

So been caching for about a month now, I was never really an accident prone person but since starting geocaching ive sustained more injuries in the last month than I had in the last year lol all all apart of the adventure though I suppose, so I hoped I was not a minority and there were plenty of other people to share war stories wiso since the first of jan, ive slipped on my ass, resulting in a huge bruise on my butt, a bruise on my wrist, my elbow, a huge graze down my leg, scratches up my arm, and a few grazes on the front of my leg. Lol so im a little scared to see what the rest of the year will bring.
Im hoping im not the only clumbsy one

You need the GCA locationless cache "Casualty Ward" http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga1005.

Its all part of geocaching ....

You haven't had fun unless you come home with a bit of blood leaking somewhere

Tis true. It hasnt been a fun day geocaching unless you have a cut/bruise/scrape/open wound/sprain/strain that you never had before.


The things we do for small plastic containers, hey?

(Says the one who wore a pair of thongs and a skirt....and walked through a blackberry bush today...bright move, me)

I think my brightest geocaching injury would have been..
So, i was on crutches (for something caused not by geocaching?!?), and had just gotten off them. A sensible person would have stuck to simple driveby, or terrain 1 caches, until their ankle was feeling completely better.
It was almost a driveby, ok? There was just a barbed wire fence i had to jump...really, it was like 200m away from the road! Honest!

After DNF'ing the cache, almost getting attacked by the resident possum (reason for the DNF..), i had to jump back over the fence.
Long story short, i ended up back on crutches...

I can relate - i have a long scratch scar up my arm from an encounter with a broken branch, still recovering from Woodlands 100 blisters, not to mention the mental trauma of too many close encounters with large spider webs strategicly placed between you and the cache... I was pleased to find that Casualty Ward cache - nice to get an extra smilie to make up for it all

quiet1_au wrote: not to mention the mental trauma of too many close encounters with large spider webs strategicly placed between you and the cache... )

Oh yeah...that's the worst injury of them all. Mental trauma is worse than physical trauma

Well...so far the list of injuries for me includes...

- torn medial knee ligament
- wooden spike through foot (which punctured through my shoe as well)
- Countless amount of blackberry thorns in hands, shins etc
- Sprained ankle
- Stick through back when I fell 2m off a rock onto a bush
- Split head open a couple of times (once on an MBO windmill when the blades suddenly turned and came down on my head)
- Multiple cuts and bruises (this almost goes without saying)

But...at the end of the day...I wouldn't change any of it! It's all part of the great adventure of geocaching!

My Casualty Ward Log was for a dislocated shoulder

I was very proud of Zhaomin who managed a spectacular bruise on her knee, turning the whole thing black, on a 4/4 cache here in Ireland last week. Got some photos that dont do it justice. She will log this week hehehe

Cracked my sternum slipping forward onto a pointy rock, throwing arms wide to catch myself and chest taking full impact!
Everything else has been rather minor next to that one.

When I think about the dark hiding spots I've shoved my hand into though...

Friday's injuries: Grazed left thigh and knee, grazed and bruised right knee, grazed palms ( superman dive) and an almost broken GPS lucky the garmin is bomb proof.

tronador wrote:Friday's injuries: Grazed left thigh and knee, grazed and bruised right knee, grazed palms ( superman dive) and an almost broken GPS lucky the garmin is bomb proof.

You encountered a bomb??

SamCarter wrote:

tronador wrote:Friday's injuries: Grazed left thigh and knee, grazed and bruised right knee, grazed palms ( superman dive) and an almost broken GPS lucky the garmin is bomb proof.

You encountered a bomb??

A bomb would have made the injuries more worthy, instead of not looking where I was going, with my nose glued to the Gps and tripping on a rock, on a flat track.

I picked up four ticks on a cache run the other evening. I'm STILL itchy!

Just dont let your injuries slow you down

Caching in the Coorong with a broken leg (Spiral fracture with 3 breaks)