Geocaching

I have heard about geocaching a few time sin the past but never really looked into it.  I kind of knew that you needed a GPS system and I didn't have one so I thought no more.  Then, a couple of weeks ago, I read an article about it in a magazine and was motivated to check out the website - geocaching.com .

I was surprised to see that there were several caches quite close to home and it looked as if I might be able to find them even without a GPS.  So the following weekend the Uncruliar family set out to look for two local caches.  We didn't find either but we did find out that our SatNav has a facility to enter co-ordinates.

A week later I went out again with Uncruliar Junior Number 3 and the SatNav.  I left the other Uncruliars at home as I had the impression that they hadn't been impressed withour previous attempt.  This time we found the cache that we were looking for and UJN 3 was thrilled by the little items of treasure (actually little novelty nicknacks) in the cache.

On our return we told the rest of the family and they couldn't wait to try again.  We have been out again since then and found another cache.  Again there was much excitement about the treasure, especially when we discovered that we had found a geocoin.  Returning to the website we discovered that the geocoin had started its journey in Germany.  Despite being on a mission to Croatia it had actually been to Luxembourg, France and a very rural part of England.  Next week we're going to London so we'll be taking the geocoin with us in the hope that it can get from there back towards it's destination.