Geocaching – Technological Rambling

Geocaching is a relatively new hobby/sport enjoyed by people across the globe. You wont have to go far from your front door to start enjoying it.
Let me explain more…….
A geocache is hidden treasure (over 600,000 are hidden around the world). It could take form as a Tupperware box filled with non-degradable goodies and a log book or just a small capsule containing a log book. It is the geocacher’s aim to find these. The whereabouts of these can be found on the official web site www.geocaching.com.

On this site you create your own username and then the search begins. It is a completely free site/hobby. It was born out of the GPS age. Most people use a GPS unit to pinpoint the Caches but it is not essential. Our Caching team called “The Bob Squad” do not use one as yet. You can find quite a lot just by a print out of a “Google map” available on the site.

The idea is to find the cache write in the log and you may take some of the treasure, it is good form to deposit other treasure in the cache. Treasure could constitute a keyring, toy car but not anything edible (Wild animals are good treasure hunters!) You then replace the cache in its original hiding place. When you get home you then log the find on www.geocaching.com.

An added interest is a little thing called a “Travel Bug”. These are found in caches and are moved from cache to cache and logged on the site www.geocaching.com. This enables the Travel Bug’s original owner to track where the bug has been. “The Bob Squad” recently helped “King of the road” on his round the world trip.

World Traveller

So, who hides these? Fellow Geocachers do! You can hide them, log on to the site and register them and wait and see how many ‘Cachers find your treasure!

This hobby is for young and old, it adds excitement to a walk and after you find your first cache you will be hooked!

~ by benignintervention on September 12, 2008.