Geocaching

on Monday 1 December 2008

Today I was introduced to a new hobby/game by my colleagues. Its called Geocaching. Its a high tech treasure hunting type of game. Apparently its played all over the world, or at least in the developed countries. It was fun to play this game. We took note of some geo coordinates and clues from the site www.geocaching.com, a GPS unit that shows geo coordinates, a camera and a paper and a pen and we headed out to find the cache.
The first one had a clue of "Fishy". We know about a pond near our office building. So we headed down there while checking the GPS to be sure that we were going in the right direction. We were right, the coordinates were near the pond. When we arrived near the coordinates, all we saw was a tree. What could be hidden there? We had 3 people in our group and we started looking around. After searching for about 5 minutes, we found a camaflogue bottle hidden in the branches of the tree. When we opened it, we found the cache !! We registered our visit in a paper in the cache and took pictures and kept it back at the same place !! Even though it was a worthless treasure, it was really fun to find it !! I'm into geocaching now !!