Geocaching

After my car accident and after I found out that I couldn't do a lot of the things that I used to love to do I discovered geocaching. It is a high tech treasure hunt with a GPS. After you get your GPS (I recommend a Garmin Dakota 20...it is made for geocaching), visit www.geocaching.com to find a cache near you. Once you enter the coordinates into your GPS go out into the world to find the cache.

Now I am sure that you are asking me what the heck is a cache. A cache is a container that is hidden by fellow geocachers. Depending on the size of the container it will hold just a log book, or it will hold a log book and some tradeable items (pins, little toys, etc).

The whole world is our game board! It has been said that we (geocachers) are using million dollar satellites to find tubberware containers. LOL!! It is true though!

Over the weekend I went out with my bestie (Heather) and her daughter Miss V to go find some caches. It had been well over a year since I had done any geocaching whatsoever, and I was itching to get out and find some.

Yesterday we found eight caches!! It wasn't close to our record but finding caches on a gorgeous February day is still very awesome!!!

This is one of the micro caches we found. I stood in front of the tree (where the GPS had lead me) and looked at description of the cache on my GPS and it said green metal capsule. "WHAT?? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" I said looking at Heather. She pointed and said "It's right there." We both laughed.
 
Can you see how small the log is rolled up to fit inside the bison tube?



With a cache this small (and if Heather and I are together) one of us holds the pieces and the other one signs the log sheet.

I usually am the one that rolls up the sheet again and puts it back in the tube. Although with this one Heather did the rolling and putting it back together as I decided to take pictures for the blog.

As much as I tease Heather about always loading the micro caches into the GPS I still like finding them!