My First Geocache

Now I am going to tell you all about this, but I can't tell you were it is! Ha! There are hundreds of "caches" in Richmond alone....and there are thousands and thousands worldwide. Anyway, I searched the website, www.geocaching.com and there were several within a short distance of our house.

Each listing has the coordinates and a dialog about the cache, sometimes the there are a lot of hints and sometimes there aren't. The main idea is to put the lat/long in your GPS and then find the hidden treasure. My first was a "micro" meaning that it is not a traditional cache (a box of items that you take something and then leave something) instead it is very small and usually only has a sign-in log. So, I set off knowing it was something really small....I searched for about 20 min. and found the clue, but stood there without any idea what I was looking for. Now one of the things you have to be aware of are "muggles", the public watching you and the fear is they will get the cache or destroy it....so you do not want the public to figure out what you are doing.

So, I didn't find it...I returned home very deflated....I talked about it and then Carol gave me a suggestion, so I set out the next day and found it! It was a little wooden plug that was in a knot in a tree that had been hollowed out with a little metal capsule inside. It was very, very clever in it's design. I looked at this the first time and thought it was a branch that had been pruned!

So, if you want to get out in the fresh air and go treasure hunting this is a really fun thing to do!