Geocaching

I've recently started geocaching. Check out www.geocaching.com where you can find cache locations and see what is happening to a particular cache. I mostly do it with our youngest son. He and I have found that it is a fun way to spend time outdoors and some of the caches require puzzle solving skills. We've also done it with other members of the family as well...our oldest son also is pretty good at it.

I bought the most inexpensive hand-held GPS I could find the Lowrance iFINDER GO, which works fine for me.

We go to the www.geocaching.com web-site, find a cache near our location, put the coordinates into the GPS and head off to find the cache. Typically we bring something small to place in the cache and in return we take something (if anything grabs my son's fancy). We then log our success (or failure if we can't find the cache) at www.geocaching.com.

Sometimes a cache contains a Travel Bug which is a registered "something" whose movements between caches is tracked at www.geocaching.com.

Apart from the joy of spending time outdoors with family members the other unexpected benefit as been that we've discovered a lot of parks/conservation areas close to us that we never knew even existed.