Geocaching.......

During spring break this year we decided to try something new. My sisters have been geocaching before and I wanted to try it. What is geocaching?

Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world.
A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook where the geocacher enters the date they found it and signs it with their established code name. After signing the log, the cache must be placed back exactly where the person found it. Larger containers such as plastic storage containers (Tupperware or similar) or ammunition boxes can also contain items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little financial value, although sometimes they are sentimental. Geocaching shares many aspects with benchmarking, trigpointing, orienteering, treasure-hunting, letterboxing, and waymarking.

I just downloaded an app on my phone and then looked up some geocaching right in my own back yard. Its so fun to try and find them. It was pretty rugged terrain when we went and I don't think we were quite prepared but it was fun nonetheless! We had 3 we wanted to try and find. We found the first one pretty easily. Its nice because the app on your phone will guide you right to it and then say "you have arrived." And it should be pretty close. The 2nd one we searched and searched for but never found it.

 The first geocache....we picked out a toy and left one behind.

 The last geocache we found was entitled something like "mullet madness." We had to do a little searching for this one too. It was in an ammo box surrounded by a bunch of trash. I found it first and opened it up. We all had fun taking pictures with the mullet wig on :)