Geocaching How many members are doing it?

Not me

Geocaching is on a par with Confluencing. Just silly little games people play out in the bush.....hahahahaha

Sure, if you have nothing better to do, then it might occupy your mind for a short while, but is there any point to it????



Cheers

Mal and Di

yes I have been doing it for a few years now (GeoKiwi) and have had a great time . As you say it is a great way to find places that you might not discover/know of etc.

If I am going to an area that I havent been to before I will d/l the cache details as waypoint directly into my Garmin. That way if I drive near to one it shows up.

I do alot of trail riding down here and its amazing where we find geocaching stashes around the state.We have a look at whats in them(some strange stuff there) and leave them as we find em.
We must be just eagle eyed as we just seem to find them time and time again.

I sort of know what it is, but... For those of us (prolly only me) that aren't up with it, can you explain what and how???

Thats a personal question Mal but here goes, lambchops is in Canberra right now she hopefully when she gets back we will be going it again LOL

Hi Mal & Di,
we just started geocaching in the last year. Whenever we go camping or on a trip somewhere, we try and find as many as we can without diverting off too far.
Our 4 kids love it!! To them it's like a giant treasure hunt and we all know..if it keeps the kids happy...the parents are happy!
Just found a few near our house on Saturday and will be going down south soon and will try and find a few there.
All good fun!
Michelle

What is it!

Hairy,
for want of a better explanation this is cut and pasted from Wikepedia:

"Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called "geocaches" or "caches") anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook and "treasure," usually toys or trinkets of little value. Today, well over 800,000 geocaches are registered on various websites devoted to the pastime. Geocaches are currently placed in over 100 countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica."

Anyone with a GPS can find them. Ususally there is a small note pad also where you use your registered geocache "name" to say when you found the cache, what you took out and what you put back in.

Michelle

To all those heading of to Innaminka all the best and I hope you don't freeze your butts off. Maybe as a bit of a warm up you can hold Willem by the hand and take him to these Coord's nearby and show him what it is all about.
S 27° 45.232 E 140° 35.985 S 27° 45.054 E 140° 44.163
S 27° 46.495 E 140° 40.719
Have a good trip.
M.

Hi Mal & Di,
Yes we Geocache as well. Mainly when on a camping trip as a way of keeping the kids happy and finding interesting places. It is fun & good excercise. It is also good to hide a few yourself and see who visits your spot.
from Marty (Marty&Karen).

Always said i wouldnt start this as i didnt have time for another time waster, BUT one sunday morning i couldnt sleep and was in here surfing, and opened up this geocaching site link that was on a post here, and bugga me if there wasnt one about 150 metres from where i live.
So when daylight struck, i went for a walk, and wasted half a day trying to work it out, but couldnt find it, so i was right it is a time waster, so havent tried it since, even though i am still registered and get updates each week.

Cheers Pesty