Geo Caching!

What do you get when you mix hiking, hide and seek and a gps? Geo Caching! Can I just say I love this somewhat frustrating activity. We've had a hand held gps for awhile but haven't used it much. We have a old etrex and it isn't great for Geo Caching but still fun to get outthere and see what we can find. Our first find was at First Landing State Park and Virginia Beach, the Long Creek trail Cache. Well hidden I might add. We even met the creator of this cache while we were on the trail(He tried to give us tips but the women He was with wouldn't let him!) It was in a camouflage tupperware container next to a tree and covered with pine needles and leaf, so not hard to find at all!! We added our contribution to the cache( a pouch of foreign coins). If you find this Cache we want you to keep the coins traveling and I enclosed my email so you can let us know were they are traveling too. We took our dogs and had a fun day on the trails and happy to have actually found a cache.

Cache #2 is only about 1.5 miles from our house here in Ocean View. The first night we walked to it we looked for about 20 minutes and couldn't find it. We finally figured it had been moved or something. Then today we were at Bass Pro Shops looking at handheld gps to see what the newer models have to offer when we met a super nice couple(the Caching crew) as they

are known gave us some tips and told us some caches will be mini's or micros and some are only the size of your finger tips. Armed with this knowledge we decided to go have another look. Nate found it about 5 minutes after looking. I can't believe how small it was! Take a look....So don't get discouraged if at first you cant find the cache you're looking for. We we're pretty proud of ourselves for this find especially with the gps we're using!

So if you like hiking and want the excitement of a grown up game of hide and seek you need to at least try geo caching and see how addicting it can be!