Geocaching
Geocaching has been around since the summer of 2000. As of 2010, there are now more than a million hidden caches worldwide. In early 2010, I signed up with geocaching.com. Since then, only half of all hunts were successful. Still, I don’t want to get discouraged.
Last month, I bought an iPhone 3GS. I quickly installed the Geocaching app from geocaching.com. It is terrific for locating nearby caches. In addition, I installed MotionX GPS for the iPhone which allows me to determine my exact location in a variety of formats and email the information to myself. MotionX GPS does that and much more. I highly recommend it.
With the added help of the iPhone apps, we created our very first geocache today. I have submitted our cache information to the geocaching.com website for approval. It was a lot of fun to assemble the small cache. I can’t wait until the first person finds it!
I remember mocking the idea of geocaching the first time I heard about it. Since that time, I have come around to love it. It is really a lot of fun, and a nice, free way to get out of the house and exercise outdoors. If you have a hand-held GPS, why not give it a try?
The hidden cache was never approved by the geocaching.com website because it was deemed too close to other caches in the area. I have yet to move it somewhere else.