TeamWolfie’s First Trackable

TeamWolfie discovered a Travel Bug while examining the contents of the Creek Shrub cache. A Travel Bug is one of two main types of trackable items used in Geocaching. The other is a Geo Coin.

Travel Bugs look a little like a dog tag, they have a unique tracking number on them, and participants in Geocaching are encouraged to pick up and move these around from site to site – and most importantly, log these movements on the geocaching.com website.

The Travel Bug we took from the cache today was a special Unite for Diabetes bug.

Wolfie holds the Travel Bug, temporarily.

It’s Travel Bug etiquette not to hang onto them for too long – after all, the purpose of a Travel Bug is to travel from location to location – and for the owner of the trackable item to track it’s travels around the world on the Geocaching website. As a general rule – don’t hang onto these things for more than two weeks – or it’s bad luck. Well… maybe not bad luck – I just made that bit up.

The travels of this particular bug is quite fascinating. It started out in Germany back in December 2006.  Since then it traveled to several locations around Germany, then in July 2007 hopped its way to Malaysia where it visited several locations before being collected and brought to NSW Australia where it has been hopping around ever since.

TeamWolfie is planning to place this bug in an interesting new home where it can continue it’s travels. We’ll keep you updated here as soon as that happens.