Hopping along from cache to cache,
Dropping eggs as my sparkly stash,
Pop open the egg
and here’s what you seek
For you have discovered,
This coin to keep.

The Easter Geocoin Bunny

Hello, come on in! I'm glad you could stop by, I was just thinking back a few years on something I did that was fun and special. Would you like to hear about it? You would? Wait one moment and I'll put on some tea.

Ok, where was I? Oh yes, a very special time:

In the winter of 2006 while snuggled up in my den, I thought of the coming season and how few egg hunts were in hopping distance and I so wanted to make children happy everywhere. Contacting many cachers, I laid out my plan to them. I'd send them mystery Easter egg coins to hide in their areas

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  One moment. Here we go. Yes, it does smell delicious, a special blend of clover and hops. Would you care for sugar? Cream? You're quite welcome.

  Now all of the geocachers eagerly accepted and Easter Geocoin Bunny coins were mailed out to each of them in February, each package contained four plastic eggs on a carpet of green grass, with each egg containing one of four kinds of egg geocoin (pink\green, blue\red, lavender\gold and a special edition: light blue\red). Over the next two months 300 glittery Easter egg geocoins were dropped into geocaches around the world.

   Oh do have a scone, I know this lovely bakery that make marvelous scones. I like to go there each Thursday afternoon. Yes, oh, sorry I'll get back on track.

Together with the eggs were Easter Bunny stickers for my helpers to help mark the logbooks of the caches the coins had been dropped into, I specifically wanted them placed in kid friendly caches for young ones to find. A forum thread was started when the first egg appeared in a geocache in South Carolina, found by a darling little girl, Bella, and soon more people found coins and told of the smiles it had brought. People drove 100's of miles to get to the dropped eggs, writing about their experiences of finding one in the forum thread. As the days passed I logged into the caches where the coins had been dropped, so I could look at the smiles on a map. Each coin was a gift to a lucky finder to keep.  Each finder was another smile for me. A few weren't logged or came up empty, but for the most part people had fun. There were many thanks and happy faces in the forum. Here, I've found a few, please take a look.

I took a few years off after that and tried some different work, like designing apps on facebook, (I still like hiding things.) But you never know, I just might be back this spring. It's sure been fun remembering about it.

Say, here's something a friend sent me that might interest you, think he can make it in hip hop?

Now Easter Bunny's been in the game, hiding eggs, that is his fame

Long before the first geocacher, fun to hunt, he was a master

Now he's found a brand new thing, filling caches in the spring

He finds them all with gps, to place an egg, as in a nest

For little girls and boys to find, theirs to keep, he doesn't mind

Twist it open little folk, find inside, the sparkly yolk

A geocoin the Bunny hid, he made you smile, I saw he did

And your smile is all he needs, as he hops off, through the weeds.

But you can thank him anyway! Let him know, it made your day!

It's kind of embarrassing, but it made me laugh too!

Oh, it is getting late I'm afraid, but I'm glad you could stop by this afternoon. Yes, my pleasure and please do come again!

 Hmmmmm hippity hoppity!

Easter's on its way!!

By Easter Geocoin Bunny

Hopping down the Geotrail, hippity hoppity, bunnies on his way!

Comments(5):

1. Thank you!

   The Easter Geocaching Bunny sent me one via a local cacher who hid it and sent me the coordinates, what a cool thing to do! Thanks EGB, that was one that will remain in the lifetime-geocaching-memories file!

   Monday, December 14, 2009 Ed

2. Easter Egg Coin

   Just wanted to say thank you for all the hard work you do with the coins. My daughter and I were lucky enough to grab one of the coins here in Mississippi. We have one of the red and blue coins.

   Monday, December 21, 2009 Lacey

3. Easter Egg Geocoin

   How do i get a hold of 3 to stay in my area?

   Thursday, December 24, 2009 Allison

4. i meant to stash on my area

   Thursday, December 24, 2009 Allison

5. Eggs

   This is such a cool idea! I am a new geocacher, and would love to find one of these eggs or get one to put in a cache. Where do you get the eggs at to begin with?

   Tuesday, April 06, 2010 Jill