Our friends Gerrod and Kristy have taken an interest in the sport of Geocaching – which in its simplest form is treasure hunting using high-tech gadgetry like GPS’s and social web sites to help you along your way.
A few months ago they decided to play a game with us, sending a cache (the treasure) on a journey from their home in London to our home in Aspley. Once G&K dropped the cache off in its initial location in London, over time other geocachereres would find it, read the instructions and drop it off in another location a little closer on its way to Aspley.
On Saturday, we finally ventured out to seek our treasure and I can now present it to you in all its geeky glory.
What’s in the cache:
- Log and pen
- 2 scented candles
- Bracelet
- Necklace
- Toy helicopter
- Toy car
- Mini stapler
- Heart key ring
- Heart ring
- Combination lock
- Travel bug
- Geocoin
- Bismuth
Some statistics:
| Distance Travelled: | over 16500 km |
| Journey Time: | 7 Months Dropped – 21-November-2009 Picked up: 13-Jun-2010 |
| Journey Stops: | 4 (UK – Gunnersbury Woodland, UK – London – Bedford Park, Australia – Great Circle Line #3 – Bardon, Australia – Aspley Park) |
Unfortunately, without G&K here to show us how geocaching is supposed to work I’m afraid I do not know exactly what to do now that I picked up the cache. I’m pretty sure I need to log it somehow but I really am clueless with what I should be entering. Gerry/Kristy can you enlighten us.
Errr… you’re only supposed to take the travel bug (dog tag), and the rest should have stayed there in the container.
The cache is the container itself, and they should be static – its only their contents that should change.
The idea is you can take something out of the cache (if you want) and replace it with something of similar value. TB’s are an exception, you can take them without putting something back in their place.
oops!
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that is so funny Bender! How unhelpful of G man to not give you any instructions prior to you setting out on your adventure. I hope you remember where you found the container so you can put it back in the same spot! :)