August 20th 2022 is International Geocaching Day! There's a souvenir available for your profile for logging a cache today, so please join us for a late-afternoon chat in Herbert Park.
But there's more! By logging this event you'll be taking part in the worldwide effort to break the record for most cachers logging a find. The current record has stood since 2013, so it's overdue for breaking.
Herbert Park was once called the Forty Acres, and used as bleaching grounds for linen produced by the mills on the nearby Dodder. In 1907 it was the site of the Irish International Exhibition, with 2.75 million visitors between May and November of that year. None of the enormous pavilions remain now, but today's duckpond was the splashpool for the Canadian Water Chute (the water's quite chilly, or it was when I fell into it as a small child).
If the weather is inclement, the bandstand is there for shelter. So bring yourself, your caching stories and your trackables - it'll be great to see you, particularly newer cachers and visitors. Oh, and dogs. Last time we had some excellent dogs.