we have been geocaching for about 8 years its a great hobby, takes you to some really good places

It's quite amazing Sheba.
There are little treasures (or caches) hidden all over the world. You can look up clues for each one, lock in a town ,poast code or area and the caches are listed. They all work differently. One we have done gave you GPS co-ordinates of the first clue. At this spot we searched for the clue which gave us the next co-ordinate. After 3 co-ordinates we were given the ones for the actual cache. It took us about 10 minutes at this spot searching. We found the lunchbox container hidden under the roots of an old tree and covered with bark. The container had a log book to fill in and a few trinkets. We placed 2 in and took 2 out and then replaced the container as we found it. Somebody had found it the day before and in the week before. This particular one was set up in April 2009. It's great to do with a few friends.
Obviously Wombat enjoys it if he has been doing it for 8 years. 

Google it and have a look.

and once you find a cache you go online to http://www.geocaching.com/ and log your find

We have been geocaching for a few years now.

My wife loves walking, I think a long walk is from the bedroom to the bathroom.

I love gadgets, electronics, etc.

My wife thinks they are mens toys.

Her idea, not mine.  Combine the two and you have geocaching fanatics.

We take our gear everywhere we travel, lots of very unusual and interesting places to be found, especially overseas. (Last four trips we have really got into that, taking lots of little Australian knick knacks to leave.)

Makes travelling and walking real fun (Did I really say that?)

Give it a try.

Dusty

A geocache was hidden near here.



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what sort of hand held gps do you think would be best for this,, i have thought of doing this as i know have to walk regularly after my heart attack and thouht this would make it interesting as i know that there are a fair few hidden around here, (noarlunga SA)
tony

Never heard of this before.  Sounds like a great deal of fun.  Rob and I will have to give that one a try.

We have just bought a Garmin nuvi 3760 which we can use in the car or walking. Seems to be doing the job.

We use a Garmin 60CSx

Fabulous unit, can be loaded with road maps and we also have marine charts for all of Australia loaded, use it as a backup with laptop on yacht.

The photo in the previous reply was taken in Singapore botanical gardens.

Your not wrong "Enterprize" The last three years we have been taking some holidays in Asia.

Looking for geocaches and following Chinese signs, while manipulating public transport, taxis and of course in some cases walking from the hotelopens a whole new world of puzzles. Plus the added complication of trying to look casual while foraging in the gardens, statues, monuments, etc. Great fun.

Dusty

Gerty Dancer wrote:

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Would this be possible using a Tom-tom? Its sounds fascinating.

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Hi GD,

it depends on what unit you have, your do need the option to input co-ords to the GPS, what model tom tom do you have?

 

Hi All
I have also just started geocaching and I am having a ball hunting for them around where I live and also have just got back from a holiday in Hastings point where I cached and found there.I have a bottom of the range garmin etrek very basic GPS handheld but still does the job as time goes on I will probably upgrade later.
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Chris

Geocaching is great fun, you would be surprised how many places it take you to that you would not have known about if you did not do geocaching.