Our Very First Geocaches!

Posted on Monday 20 March 2006 at 8:55 AM in Just For Fun - Post Comment

This past weeked we did our first four Geocaches. If you have never heard of Geocaching, you can find out more about it at http://www.geocaching.com/about/. Basically, it's a big game of hide and seek using satellites. Someone will hide a cache (sometimes with goodies in them), post the coordinates (normally given in longitude and latitude) and people use their GPS, or Global Positioning Systems to find them. It's a great family activity and a good way to get outside in nature.


At the site of our very first Geocache.


This one was really easy. It was a simple film canister with a little log book in it.


Ta da! Our very first Geocache.


The site of our second Geocache.


My turn to find the cashe with Boo.


This one had goodies. Boo picked out a blue keychain and we left an Intel pin.


Ready to find our last two caches.


These two were definately more of a challenge, and a good hike too.


A little schooling along the way.


We're getting close.


Found the first one and it was full of goodies! We left a McDonald's toy and Boo picked a Hot Wheels car.


Found the second one. This one was a two-stage cache. The first part gave you the coordinates to the second part where the cache was. More goodies, Boo picked a compass and we left some more Intel pins.

We can't wait to do more caches, and we're even planning on hiding a couple of our own as homeschool projects.

HOW FUN!

Posted by matsmom97 on Monday 20 March 2006 at 9:31 AM - Link

I have a friend who does alot of that and I REALLY want to, but just haven't for some reason. I'm hoping this spring to get more info from her and get started.

Fun!

Posted by heatherdanner on Monday 20 March 2006 at 2:20 PM - Link

This looks and sounds like so much fun! I had never heard of anything like that before! Thanks for sharing your adventure!

Heather D in Iowa

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Posted by Candy on Thursday 23 March 2006 at 11:05 AM - Link

My daughter does this too. We all join her on occasion. It is great fun to find the goodies! Betsy (my daughter) just went last weekend.