Rebecca, my dad and I did a super fun thing today. We went GeoCaching! Geocaching is basically a high tech / nerd treasure hunt. You go online and get some coordinates from geocaching.com and plug them into your portable GPS. Then you go out with your gps and seek out the cache. The caches are usually some type of box or a tupperware container filled with all kinds of little goodies. You’re supposed to take one item and put one item back. Some caches are book drops. Take one book and drop another…

Once we plugged the GPS coordinates into the handheld GPS device we were ready to go. So we hopped on the seadoos and searched for the right island in the 1000 islands. My dad had some local knowledge so this helped. ;)

Once we found the island we parked our sea doos and went searching. We followed the path for a while until the gps told us to get off the path. We walked down toward the edge of a cliff and stopped. The GPS said we had arrived so we started looking. After about 30 seconds of searching we spotted the cache under some bushes. It was a little rectangular tupperware container. We took a marble out of the and put a little lighthouse christmas tree ornament thing back in it.

I was really impressed that the little gps my dad gave me (he has like 10 gps’) actually worked so well. The actual cache’s position and the coordinates on my GPS we’re only about 3 feet apart. It was some good clean nerd fun!

You can check out the cache we found here on Geocaching.com.