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.
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10 responses to “Geocaching”
nerd games.
Geocaching kicks ass. Grabbing coordinates in advance of a road trip breaks things up, and it’s the absolute best way to get to know cool new places. Geocaches in more urban areas are my favourite. I don’t remember which city we were in, but one time we found ourselves at the bottom of a huge hill covered in giant rocks and the GPS said we were close. We spent about an hour bouldering up the rocks to find the cache – and to spot the parking lot where we could have parked had we come at it from another angle. That’s the kind of experience that just can’t be beat with conventional outings.
thats so damn awesome! i want a gps!!! wish i was there with ya
go online already!
Hahahahaha!! Duncan, do you realize how ridiculously extravagant that story sounds?
“Just for a lark we spent an afternoon zooming around on jetskis with GPS’s in hand, picking up trinkets.”
It’s right out of a movie. The only thing missing is a gulfstream flight ‘across the pond’ to Paris for dinner.
It sure sounds like a lot of fun, though. It’s definitely inspiring to hear stuff like that when you know the person doing it!
I’m not sure if that was meant to be insulting or not?…
But thamks for the note!!!
Oops! No offense intended. I was just staring out the window from my cubicle, thinking about things I’d rather be doing than reading boring engineering jargon, and your afternoon of light-hearted geocaching seemed so far from this four-walled dystopia that it was like reading a fairy tale.
Work sucks.
sorry to hear your work sucks
and sorry for making it seem even worse…
:(
Eh, not a big deal. I actually love my job, I was just having a bad day.
Using a GPS seems like cheating to me.
So cool…i can’t wait to do this with you!!!!!!
COME HOME NOW!