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Geocaching opens participants up to all sorts of discoveries

The Appleton Post Crescent (Wisconsin, USA) has publised a Geocaching related story titled Geocaching opens participants up to all sorts of discoveries.

It contains information on geocaching in general including how to get started and to visit www.geocaching.com.

However, the main content is about a beginners geocaching course that is being held at Gordon Bubolz Nature Preserve, located just north of Appleton.  At this course, Gordon says that participants will gain hands on knowledge of how to use a GPS as well as finding different kinds of geocaches that will be hidden in the park.

The course is aimed at 5-6 year olds up to ‘grandparents’.

Click here to read the full story.

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Found Moscow on the Harbor Geocache

We went and found the Moscow on the Harbor geocache today. This geocache is interesting because it is an ‘International Cache’ coming from the USA to New Zealand and packed full of USA goodies. The idea is that finders trade items that are from where they are from with the USA items. Unfortunately, we forgot our item, but since this geocache is only a 10 minute walk from where I work, we will probably visit it one lunchtime this week.

One thing I have found that I really enjoy about geocaching is that it gets you to areas you never knew existed. Moscow on the Harbor is no exception. It is set in a reserve where a path of about 1KM starts on a winding descending bush walk and along a pleasant flat path along the edge of a tidal estuary consisting mostly of mangrove. I drive past it every day to get to work but never considered visiting it.

When we return this week, I shall probably take a Welsh fridge magnet that we have (since I am originally from Wales). There is a picnic table closeby that we shall probably take advantage of.

And I must remember to start taking my camera with me to get some photos of these scenic spots.

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Searching for hidden ‘treasure’ a growing hobby

The Woodstock Independant has a story about the growth of Geocaching as a hobby. They cover areas like hiding and finding a cache, travel bugs, and cache destruction - i.e. when a cache is accidentally discovered by a muggle.

They write,

Geocaching is becoming more and more popular. New members are always being added, and the Web site is struggling to keep up. Caches are being hid at an astonishing rate, and they are being found even faster. As of Jan. 22, the record for the most caches found is 13,104.

Click here for the full story.

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Garmin eTrex - Our first GPS

We got our first GPS last week after finding out about Geocaching on the Closeup TV program here in New Zealand - and coming into a little bit of extra money we weren’t expecting.

We chose the Garmin eTrex GPS primarily because of it’s price and deciding that Garmin appeared to be a reputable GPS manufacturer after a while of online research on the geocaching.com forums.

Other reasons include:

• Waterproof - at least down to 1 metre as long as you fish it out reasonably quickly!
• Bright colour - easy to find when I drop it.
• Compact - Pretty much the same size as my cell phone - and just a little thicker.

Anyway, it has not dissapointed so far and has successfuly guided us to our first geocache.

And another cool thing. When you fire it up, there is an animation that shows the GPS locking on to the satellites - Allthough it looks more like it’s communicating with orbiting TIE Fighters… And who’s to say it isn’t

Find more Garmin GPS units here.

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We found our first geocache

Well we found our first geocache yesterday - and it was very exciting. The geocache was Cling-on-Cafe and is located on Aucklands North Shore in New Zealand. The location is Kauri Park, a native bush reserve that has the most large Kauri trees I ever remember seeing in one place.

We first went to find it on Saturday, but after searching the cache site for about 30 minutes we had to go back to the car as our 1 year old was getting crabby in the backpack after being poked by branches as I foraged in the undergrowth.

So it was back to the cache site, this time just myself and my 3.5 year old son. Again after getting to the cache site we had to search for about 20 minutes. We were about to call it a day again when I noticed something from the clue so decided to check it out. On closer investigation, sure enough, there was the cached half hidden in the grass.

The geocache has got a fridge magnet theme so in went a plunket magnet and out came a chocolate magnet.

We then signed the book and got out of there. Looking forward to the next geocaches.

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