geocaching

Firewalker is visiting for the weekend. We grabbed the GPS unit and headed the next cache on the list. We were momentarily befuddled, but quickly remembered the unit’s quirks and after a bit of looking in the wrong places spotted the first cache. Booyah!

The second cache seemed impossible to find. We finally trekked back home. Upon pulling the Geocaching listing up we discovered that the cache location is a starting point, and that we needed to draw clues from the cache listing to find the cache itself. Maybe tomorrow.

The Little Black Beast and I found 2. We would have hit a third one, but the beast decided to take off on his own, so we returned home. Naughty Doggie!!!

It was a fun experience. The first one we found I’ve looked for in the past without using a GPS. The GPS unit I have didn’t get me any closer, but it left me more confident that I was in the right area. The clue for this site is “red”. I don’t know what that’s about. You can see all the red in the photo came with me. Unless it was this:

I’ve got my GPS unit (a Garmin GPSMap 60Cx Handheld GPS Navigator) and a copy of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Geocaching (The Complete Idiot’s Guide). There are several caches nearby … tomorrow I hope to find a few!