Geocaching

Hi Everyone in this post i would like to talk about geocaching. you might ask what is geocaching. geocaching is technology based treasure hunt you find these little containers/caches with GPS coordinates witch you can use on your phone or GPS. Geocaches can be as big as a 2 feet or they can be as tiny as a a little pebble. also there are all different kinds of caches. a traditional geocache is just a regular geocache. a puzzle cache you have to solve a puzzle to find the cache. and there are many other types of caches. each geocache has a number and a cache page that cache page will have the name of the cache a description of the cache a hint sometimes or even photos. the cache page will also have the digital logs of the people who have found it. there is also a physical log inside the actual geocache witch you sign and put the date that you found it . some geocaches also might have stuff like money little knick nacks that sort of thing. sometimes you might find a travel bug or a geocoin. travel bugs and geocoins are trackable items witch have QR or barcodes that people scan with there phone. each travel bug has a owner. the owner sets the goal for the travel bug or geocoin. for example this travel bug wants to go to Switzerland. so the owner places the travel bug or geocoin in the a geocache. a geocacher finds it he scans it and leaves a little note.  that note will be sent to the owner. the geocacher will move the travel bug to another geocache and the travel bug or geocoin will be on it’s way. the history of geocaching. geocacheing started shortly after the removal of selective ability . dave ulmer hid the first geocache in Beavercreek, Oregon on may 3rd 2000 and posted the coordinates online. on may 6th 2 people had already found the cache and thats how geocaching got started. but it wasn’t until groundspeak corp launched geocaching.com the number of geocachers and geocaches sky rocketed. now there are over 2 million geocaches all around the world from new york to japan. Geocaching originated from letter boxing a 150 year old treasure hunt that originates back to england. but i will talk more about letter boxing in a different post. i my self just heard about geocaching last september. i found my first geocache in Atlanta Georgia on a road trip i was on. we found several more geocaches on that trip. and then when i got back to Chicago i was even more interested and i started finding chicago caches with my smartphone. if you do have a smart phone you can buy the geocaching app theres a free one and a 10 dollar one. so i really encourage you to go out and find some geocaches cause it’s a great activity for all ages and you have a reason to go on a adventure get outside and have some fun.

Links to Geocaching websites

http://www.geocaching.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterboxing_(hobby)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_Bug

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocoin

http://www.letterboxing.org