We've found a new family activity. It's called Geocaching. What is geocaching you ask?
From the Geocaching website: Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache.
If you've read the Harry Potter books and/or seen the movie you know that muggles are non-practitoners or people who don't know what you're talking about. When you search for a cache...most of them say "Beware of Muggles" if the cache is located in a public place so non-geocachers don't disturb the cache and others can enjoy it and play along. We were muggles before because we didn't even know they existed....and boy are they everywhere. They are even hidden in Clovis, NM and Slaton, Tx.
We've found geocachers signature items that they want to track. We log that we have it and where we are going to move it to. We've found a travel bug...again a trackable item. Chuck is taking a toy Thunderbird airplane to the Thunderbirds squadron while he is in Las Vegas and getting a picture made with it and a real Thunderbird airplane. This is someone travel bug and they wanted it to go to the "Thunderbird base".
If your interested in geocaching, all you need is a GPS and signup at www.geocaching.com.
We just started...these first two pictures are of the kids looking for a location around Sahuarita Lake, finding it and then opening it.
We found this cache.....
Hiding like this.....
At the base of this giant saguaro.
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