As of 31 December 2020, I will no longer upload photos recovered from my travel travel bug logs. However, this site will remain open as a courtesy to those cachers who follow the link in the text of my still-circulating TBs. Future mission statements will not include a request for photos.
I ask for photos in the mission statement of my travel bugs. What follows is a fraction of the image collection that resulted from that request. The album had grown to the point that nobody was going to spend the time to view all of the images. Thus I have pared the displayed images to only the most recent ones and the older ones with interesting stories. However, the complete collection may be accessed through the tabs above, the Photo Locations or Travel Bug List.
Thus there are three ways to get at the photos. The first is to scroll through the limited selection of images from this page. If you are looking for recent additions, you should scroll through the photos in reverse order.
The locations tab leads to a list of travel bugs having a photo from the indexed general locality, the other tab is simply a list of photographed travel bugs arranged in the order of the TB ID number. A history of this project is below the photo array.
Thus there are three ways to get at the photos. The first is to scroll through the limited selection of images from this page. If you are looking for recent additions, you should scroll through the photos in reverse order.
The locations tab leads to a list of travel bugs having a photo from the indexed general locality, the other tab is simply a list of photographed travel bugs arranged in the order of the TB ID number. A history of this project is below the photo array.
About every six weeks I search for photos among the logs of recently-dropped travel bugs. Depending on the interval between drops, it may be many months after a photo was taken before I discover it. Photos are saved into a folder and uploaded in a batches.
I began releasing travel bugs in January of 2010. I started keeping records on them almost immediately, but I didn't make any effort to save the photos uploaded by cachers. That changed in 2012 and started back through the old logs to salvage images. The photos are predominantly from travel bug logs, but there are a few from cache logs as well. All the photos show at least one shellbadger travel bug.
Most of the images are labeled with the TB ID numbers and the general locations where bugs were photographed. The ID numbers were not included with the photos until 2015. In early 2016, I started retroactively adding the numbers to older photos having travel bugs I could identify from the images. If I could not identify a bug with certainty, there is no number in the label. Because I will not review every log entry of my 4000+ TBs, the identifications of some of the bugs in the photos will remain a mystery.
As of early 2018, the gallery had grown to over 1400 images of over 650 travel bugs. It is mind-numbing to view even a few hundred photos (much less all of them), so I added the two navigation tabs above as alternative ways to access them.
I have produced and uploaded some other reports on my travel bug and geocaching activities. The broad topics and links follow.
Travel Bug Losses Over Time here
Travel Bug Travels here
My Travel Bug Capable Caches here
I began releasing travel bugs in January of 2010. I started keeping records on them almost immediately, but I didn't make any effort to save the photos uploaded by cachers. That changed in 2012 and started back through the old logs to salvage images. The photos are predominantly from travel bug logs, but there are a few from cache logs as well. All the photos show at least one shellbadger travel bug.
Most of the images are labeled with the TB ID numbers and the general locations where bugs were photographed. The ID numbers were not included with the photos until 2015. In early 2016, I started retroactively adding the numbers to older photos having travel bugs I could identify from the images. If I could not identify a bug with certainty, there is no number in the label. Because I will not review every log entry of my 4000+ TBs, the identifications of some of the bugs in the photos will remain a mystery.
As of early 2018, the gallery had grown to over 1400 images of over 650 travel bugs. It is mind-numbing to view even a few hundred photos (much less all of them), so I added the two navigation tabs above as alternative ways to access them.
I have produced and uploaded some other reports on my travel bug and geocaching activities. The broad topics and links follow.
Travel Bug Losses Over Time here
Travel Bug Travels here
My Travel Bug Capable Caches here