For those of you who don't know what it is, geocaching is a popular worldwide treasure hunt activity. Hundreds of thousands of people have hidden objects - typically small tupperware bins about 6 inches square - along hiking trails, in the woods, or even hidden in near plain sight on suburban streets. There are about 3 million of these objects hidden worldwide! You can go on a website (or an app) and get the GPS coordinates of one of these hidden items. You then go out to find it! You usually take your phone with you, which guides you close to the GPS settings, and once you get close you need to find the actual object - it's often hidden under a rock or behind a stump off a hiking trail, or on the underside of a utility box, or literally camouflaged in the bark of a tree. If you are able to find it, you typically just sign your name to a log book (leving it behind for others to find as well) and log on your account that you have found it.
Henry has been very active lately. He's found about 30 caches in the past six weeks, to push his "lifetime" total to fifty. Here he is with his fiftieth find - hidden in a small tube which was velcroed to the wood underneath a bridge on a hiking trail not far from our house.
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| We knew the Geocache was somewhere near this bridge, and the hint said it was near the northwest corner of the bridge |
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| Henry found it! Can you see the geocache in this picture? (Hint: it's a black tube under the beam; you can see it's left edge just in front of the vertical silver panel with the bolts in it) |
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| Henry with the geocache |
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