Geocaching

In a previous blog I mentioned that there was a cache hidden near my home, after the failed attempt early today I was determined to find this one, even in the dark.

And yes the eagle has landed! A quick dog walk to the location, a 5 minute torch lit hunt around and hey presto I found it. It was like being 10 years old again

Caches contain small trinkets for people to find so I left a little red monster finger puppet and took a model airplane that I will forever ...

In my Geocaching Genesis blog I mentioned that there was a cache within a few hundred metres of my house. As it is so close to hime this seems like the perfect and most obvious first cache hunt. However the location is unlit and I am at work during daylight hours, so trying to find the cache in the dark will probably result in a fruitless search.

So after doing a quick search of geocaching.com I found details of a cache hidden close to where I work. Perfect! Well almost perfect, ...

I recently came to the conclusion that I seem to do the same thing day in day out. Wake up, travel to work, work, go home, mess around on the internet, watch some TV, walk the dog, play with the kids. So I decided to find a new hobby, something I have never done before, something new, something to expand my horizons.

I wanted to find something relatively inexpensive, fairly simple to get started with and if possible something the entire family could enjoy. Out of this came this ...