I first got involved in Geocaching in 2001, and was an fairly active member of the community – even if I didn’t actually do any ‘caching! I even got interviewed for a a newspaper (either The Guardian or The Independent) article about.
Fast forward to 2005. I read with envy about davee’s (a fellow #lugradio dweller) first find. I was almost inspired anough to get off my backside and go and seek one myself.
Fast forward again to the present day. A friend has lent their Bluetooth GPS so I can testdrive some satellite navigation software before our planned trip to France later this year. Suddenly the lightbulb goes off above my head. I can finally go Geocaching! So yesterday I bundle the kids into the car and off we go to my chosen destination which was Solway View 2 as it is practically on my doorstep (you can see my house from it – in fact you can see most of North-West Cumbria and South-West Scotland!). The satnav – iGO in this case – took me almost directly to it (as I discovered after I’d found it), and then I switched over to GPSDash for the final leg. After a bit of hunting high & low (you’ll understand if you ever go there) I spotted it in a place I’m sure I’d already checked. The kids were over the moon about finding it and getting to take something. This particular cache was quite small, and I didn’t have anything suitable so I returned earlier today to put some items in.
I thoroughly enjoyed it (because I got to play with geek toys), and the kids enjoyed the “treasure hunt” aspect so this is definitely something we’ll be doing again. In fact I’ve got a few lined up for one of my rare visits to the office tomorrow…
Interested to see you’ve got interested in this again … we have family outings to do this, presented as "Treasure Hunts" to the kids