Geocaching. Do you play ?

[oldbandnerd]

So, yesterday after the big turkey meal we were all stting aroung fat and happy and talking . My nephew started to tell me about this game he plays called Geocaching. https://www.geocaching.com/default.aspx . You located small,hidden contaiers using map coordiantes put into GPS or a smart phone with a GPS and you go hunting. It's like a world wide interent treasure hunt.
When I got home I created an account for myself and then my daughter and I wnet out at 10:00 to find 4 that were in less than 3/4 of a mile of our house. We foudd 3 out of 4 . We are going back out today to find more .

[TubaTinker]

For several years... I had a geocache placed in my 'back forty' by a brother-in-law of my wife. He was really into it. Tom made up some cock-N-bull story that was nautical in theme. The 'cache' was under the bow of an old fiberglass runabout that some jokesters dumped in my yard about 25 years ago. I filled it with dirt and use it for an elevated flower bed/garden.

It was interesting to see folks out there poking around with their gadgets.

[Curmudgeon]

That where I left that boat! I looked everywhere for it! Dang it all...

[TubaTinker]

That where I left that boat! I looked everywhere for it! Dang it all...

If you can identify it... you can have it. (pssst... it's a fiberglass 17 foot Magnolia run-about. Dingy red and white with a broken windshield.)

[Curmudgeon]

Arrrrrr, Maties, we've run aground! In Indiana!?!

[Carroll]

My kids and I geocache exstensively. Whenever we travel, we try to use fuel/food/potty stops to move around a bit and find a "cache". There are geocaches hidden on every single exit on I-40 from coast to coast. We have found 20 on the local college campus. My little boy can often sniff them out, now, even without the GPS!

It's like a treasure hunt with no treasure or a scavenger hunt where the hunt is the prize.

Have fun!

[Bob Kolada]

No need, I already drink.

[oldbandnerd]

This is turning out to be a lot of fun and keeps my fat ass off the couch and moving around. I don't have a GPS or a smart phone with GPS on it so I have been searching within a 5 mile radius using Google Earth. I just plug in the coordiantes it flys me to an overhead view. Then I hop in the car to go to the location and start searching.
I suppose I'll eventually have to step up to GPS of some sort. Any thoughts what is the best one for the money ? I've been looking at them and they ain't cheap. I don't see me getting one until way into the next year . $200 to $500 and up is bit much to put out for one of these right now.

[oldbandnerd]

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We spent the week camping at Northbend Campground on Kerr Lake in Virginia. We did some Geocaching while there . This is my wife and daughter looking in the cache container at the "Tugboat Dan" hide. It was an ammo box hidden under a rotten tree.

[Carroll]

So what kind of device did you end up with (assuming you did not "pre-scout" your campsite)?

[oldbandnerd]

My wife bought me a Garmin eTrex for Christmas that year. It's a basic GPS but good enough for caching.

eTrex - http://www.brookstone.com/garmin-etrex- ... ndheld-gps