Good stuff! I'll make sure to keep my eyes open for when you rehide

A Day at the Beach http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?gEventId=2362 We hope you can join us.

See ya
Big Blue Team

Preparations are nearly completed for "A Day at the Beach" in beautiful Port Stanley, Ontario. The Little Blue Team (our grandsons) have been busy carving a series of stamps which they will be planting themselves (with supervision of course) and it sounds like the clues will be kind of tricky. The boys had a great time at the Box ON event at Rockwood last year and want to use some of the ciphers they learned there in their clues. Grandpa and I have also been busy. We hope you will enjoy the locale and some of the surprises we have in store for you.

I doubt if it will be warm enough to swim, but you just never know, I could be wrong. There are tons of amazing things to do in this picturesque little village . . . AND we will be planting letterboxes near many of these wonderful sites.

The clues to all our boxes will go "live" at midnight on June 16th. To pick up a copy of the clues and a goodie bag full of local information and maps, meet up with us at our surprise secret location between 8 - 10 am. Clues to find our secret location will be posted a week before the event to give you a chance to figure it out. Don't worry, it will be easy and fun. The event stamp will be at this secret location.

We WILL NOT be having a potluck lunch. Bring a picnic basket if you wish but we recommend Mackie's on the Beach for fabulous fast food and world-famous Orangeade (which is still a family secret to this day) and homemade fry sauce . The condiments at Mackie's are so delicious you could put them on cardboard and eat them . . . but the hamburgs and hot dogs are fabulous too!! The Big Blue Team will be there for lunch at 1 pm and hope to get a group photo at that time.

We will be doing personal exchanges a little bit differently this year. Each participant will be given a little pin to wear on their shirt. Watch for these pins as you wander through the village searching for letterboxes and swap stamped images as you meet.

If you are planning to stay for the weekend why not purchase tickets to the Port Stanley Festival Theatre. And don't forget all the boxes planted in London, St. Thomas and Elgin County. If you need help with accommodation suggestions please give us a shout.

Hope to see you at the beach,
Big Blue Team

Just a quick little question completely unrelated to letterboxing..... Is there a metric system equivalent to "calories" that you use? I know you use kilometers, and I think you use kilograms, but what about calories? Are calories still calories in Canada, or are they something else like joules or something? =)

-- Ryan

Are calories still calories in Canada, or are they something else like joules or something?

Canadians measure Nutritional Energy in terms of a unit called the "B.E.". This stands for "Bacon Equivalent". 1 BE == 1 slice cured thick-cut bacon

Example:
"That there Big Mac is about 7 BEs, but if you add a couple slices of Bacon to it, it goes up to about 9 BEs."

Yes, calories are calories, and 1000 calories are a Calorie (with the capital C) or kilocalorie, just as in the US. But the BE unit is becoming more widespread...

Canadians measure Nutritional Energy in terms of a unit called the "B.E.". This stands for "Bacon Equivalent". 1 BE == 1 slice cured thick-cut bacon

Hah, hah, hah, hah!!! Yes, we still injest calories and many/most of us still measure our weight in pounds. (Although some things are measured in grams and kilograms..... like my cereal box is 550g of weight. (What is that??)

Yes, calories are calories, and 1000 calories are a Calorie (with the capital C) or kilocalorie, just as in the US.

In the US, we're pretty lazy. You'll almost never hear people talk about a kilocalorie, but that's almost always what people are referring to. =)

Because, you know, are units of measurement are too easy for foreigners to figure out, we have to confuse them further by misusing the labels too. *nodding*

-- Ryan

Who was it that clicked educational?!?

Who was it that clicked educational?!?

I bet it was that u_attamassaw fellow. He's a real troublemaker....

-- Ryan

http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?gEventId=2710

Hope you can join us Saturday, May 18th.

Hal, Pam, Austin, Taylor & Cameron
The Big Blue Team

Okay, long story short . . . I planted a letterbox on May 25th but lost my notes. Just found my notes but can't remember any details . . .

So if you find my letterbox will you please let me know where it is??

http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?gBoxId=221087

Wishing all our Canadian letterboxers a Happy Thanksgiving!! Special hugs to my buddy pilgrimsinthisland!!

Thank you! :-)

Just wanted to leave a post for our letterboxing friends to our north--and send condolences for the recent and tragic losses by these extremists! You are in our thoughts and prayers. Extra hugs to pilgrimsinthisland!!

Thank you.

Jiggs (As proud a Canadian as there is).

Canada Boxers !

Hi folks . . . Pam and Hal of the Big Blue Team here. We've been quiet for a while as family chaos kept us from our favourite hobby for far too long. The last straw, as they say, was when Hal suffered a heart attack the end of November. He is working hard on his recovery with the amazing cardiac care team at St. Joseph's Hospital in London.

We had a couple of firsts today. Today is the first day Hal has driven more than a 1/2 hour from home. Today is the first day we have been letterboxing since Box ON last year. And today we found our 500th box!!!

Hope to run into you on the trail!

Woohoo! Happy 500th, and congratulations. 😊

Congratulations on 500 and best wishes for complete healing.

Congratulations on your 500th find! Best wishes to you and your support team as you recover and heal from a rough time - may returning to letterboxing be just what the doctor ordered!

Pam! Great to hear from you. I'm glad Hal is on the mend, but that must have been scary.

And 500 boxes!! Congratulations! It's almost easy boxing season again...ten more weeks, right? :)

Woohoo! 500 seems a long way off for me. Congrats & hope he heals quickly.

We are headed that way (Canada) this summer so maybe we will bump into on a trail. Happy boxing!

Happy Victoria Day
and
Happy National Patriots' Day
neighbors

Nice tuque, eh?

You know I have to say, “eh?”, right?

The proper greeting for a boxer from the Great White North.

I performed one time in Canada. A teenager told me Americans say "be".

??

She then told me Canadians say "eh" (a) and Mexicans say "si" (c) and Americans are between the two countries, so we say "be" (b)!

KuKu

We don't really have an official greeting for Victoria Day. We kinda stopped celebrating the dead, colonialist monarch and we just call it May 2-4 instead. May 24 was her birthday, but more fittingly it's also the number of beers in the first case of the first weekend of summer!

I found a camo pouch buried beneath another box.
Camo pouch, logbook and stamp.

"All the Way From Canada"

I can't find it here or on LbNA.
Doesn't seem to be a HH.