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Geocaching

Saturday, 5 September 2009

It's quite possible that I've been extremely slow to jump on board with geocaching (everyone seems to know about it!), but I've only just discovered it! Geocaching is a a worldwide treasure hunt of sorts. Best done with a GPS, but it's certainly not required, people have hidden 'geocaches' all over the world - there are 50 or so in my local council area alone... and I was surprised to find some in Nepal, Iraq and Afghanistan as well!

You can access the coordinates via the website, www.geocaching.com, and take a look on google maps to get a rough idea of where you'll be heading. Decrypt the clues (or in some cases solve puzzles!) to get more details.

Ganesh, Grace and I headed to the 'Merri Creek by the Freeway' cache today... it was actually well hidden, spray painted black, under a pile of rocks at the base of a tree in the middle of a bush - but in a completely public area. It had been placed in 2005 and the log book was full of geocachers who had visited and swapped items in the box or just found it and put it back. It was quite a fun adventure because we discovered the Pipeworks Trash & Treasure market - also well worth a visit!

Labels: bike, geocaching

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