Garmin eTrex - Our first GPS

March 6, 2006 | In Garmin, GPS Handsets | No Comments

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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