Snapping Those Webcam Caches

This article was originally published on Cache Up NB. It has been mirrored here for archive purposes only.

Last week it was Earthcaches, this week it’s Webcam caches.

On a recent trip for work, I had the opportunity to snag two more webcam caches and it got me to thinking. These are yet one more cache type that are hard to find these days and are definitely limited in number due to the inability to list them anymore.

For the uninitiated, webcam caches are geocaches that require you to go to a particular location and get your photo taken by a webcam. In many cases, this involves you calling up a friend while you’re standing in front of the camera, and getting your friend to navigate to the webcam’s web page, and save the photo of you on it.

I’ve done around 12 of these caches and for most of them, I’ve used a combination of both my GPS and my smartphone. Since most smartphones have access to the internet, I’ve used the screen capture feature of my phone to capture the image of myself on camera. One of the fun things I have found with these caches is that it’s interesting to try and figure out exactly where the camera is. It’s not just about getting to the spot, but actually finding the camera that’s looking at you.

As far as I know, there’s only one webcam cache left in all of NB.

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When I travel to some place new, I always try and see if I can pick up a webcam cache, if one’s available. Since they are few and far between, it’s a bit of a treat.

Have you found a webcam cache? If so, where and when was it?