my first!

I mentioned geocaching a week ago, and today I did a bit more reading on how it works. It's like a big treasure hunt using GPS! I looked up geocaching.com and Geocaching Australia, and discovered there are a few caches hidden not too far away from where I live, and in fact there's one just down the pathway behind our house. I couldn't wait for the husband to work out how to put coordinates into the Navman, and I had a fair idea of where it might be from the description, Google map, and comments on the cache listing, so when the kids arrived home from school we went hunting.

It was pretty easy to find, and it was fun to see that other people had signed the logbook and what they left in the container. The kids thought it was a hoot, and as soon as came home they started gathering small objects that we can take with us next time to swap.

So:

1. It's fun to hunt for 'treasure', especially with the kids
2. It gets us outside for a walk, without it feeling like exercise or 'going for a walk'
3. It will get rid of some of the zillions of small objects the kids seem to accumulate from various sources (although I suspect they will just be replaced with other small objects from the caches. Perhaps when we've got the hang of it, we can set up caches for other people to find, and leave behind a number of things at a time ... I can but hope!)

The husband wants to go to the coast for car parts next week, and the kids have already asked if we can look up cache locations for the day :)