Sim and Graeme introduced us to one of their new interests...geocaching, which is basically a high-tech treasure hunt in which you use your smart phone as a compass as well as the clues that are given to track down little boxes full of trinkets and things. The pleasure is in locating the cache and entering your details of when you found the cache and by whom in the little notebook that is always in the box when you found it. You also upload this info through your smartphone or computer. Anyway, unbeknownst to me there is a hugely number of people worldwide who go out looking for these caches on a regular basis. Sim and Graeme have found 42 and have hidden three of their own. So, on our drive yesterday to Border Ranges National Park, we took the opportunity to search for a cache that was hidden at Hanging Rock waterhole, about 10 minutes from our place. Simeon's phone is showing how many metres we are away from the cache and which direction it is located.
Of course, each of us thought they knew exactly where it was. We had to walk along a rather overgrown track down to Hanging Rock Creek - all part of the fun. Once we got to within a few metres of it then the search was really on. This particular cache had quite good clues but nevertheless...
we got fooled by a decoy! This stubby looked like it could have held a cache but was filled with nothing but water. Some further searching revealed the true cache, however
which was cleverly hidden under a flat rock at the base of a big tree. Once found, we entered our details and took one of the items which had a name I can't remember - but it's meant to be removed and placed in another cache - so that it moves around the world. Lots of fun....www.geocaching.com.au if you are interested. We also found another at Kyogle, so the boys thought a two cache day was pretty good.
Sim and Graeme introduced us to one of their new interests...geocaching, which is basically a high-tech treasure hunt in which you use your smart phone as a compass as well as the clues that are given to track down little boxes full of trinkets and things. The pleasure is in locating the cache and entering your details of when you found the cache and by whom in the little notebook that is always in the box when you found it. You also upload this info through your smartphone or computer. Anyway, unbeknownst to me there is a hugely number of people worldwide who go out looking for these caches on a regular basis. Sim and Graeme have found 42 and have hidden three of their own. So, on our drive yesterday to Border Ranges National Park, we took the opportunity to search for a cache that was hidden at Hanging Rock waterhole, about 10 minutes from our place. Simeon's phone is showing how many metres we are away from the cache and which direction it is located.
Of course, each of us thought they knew exactly where it was. We had to walk along a rather overgrown track down to Hanging Rock Creek - all part of the fun. Once we got to within a few metres of it then the search was really on. This particular cache had quite good clues but nevertheless...
we got fooled by a decoy! This stubby looked like it could have held a cache but was filled with nothing but water. Some further searching revealed the true cache, however
which was cleverly hidden under a flat rock at the base of a big tree. Once found, we entered our details and took one of the items which had a name I can't remember - but it's meant to be removed and placed in another cache - so that it moves around the world. Lots of fun....www.geocaching.com.au if you are interested. We also found another at Kyogle, so the boys thought a two cache day was pretty good.
2 comments:
Fun post! That looks like a fun thing to do. I'd heard of geocaching but not seen it in action.
yeah was pretty fun, L....
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