I first heard about Geocaching from Josh Leo‘s video blog. Ever since, I’ve been looking for an opportunity but GPS units selling in the three digit price range, it wasn’t an option.
I was mentioning geocaching to Derek, a work colleague of mine who got himself a GPS unit. I must have sounded really enthusiastic because unprompted, he lent me his GPS unit.
So during the Easter weekend, Jim and I plotted to find caches around Orange and Parkes. Out of 12 caches, we found 11, not bad for first timers. Two caches in particular had us in tears.
We had to visit it two to three times, searching high and low, trying not to look suspicious to passer-bys and residents. We played with a dinosaur and race car in our first every cache, left a hideous little orange monster in another and took a geocoin for relocation.
I think I’m hooked and I can’t wait to help this coin keep travelling around Australia.
Rantings of Joan 