Geocaching: Daddy’s new “thing”

So I have been hearing about this thing called “geocaching” for a while and I thought it was just going to a spot and letting people know that you got there via the web. Basically some sort of foursquare for outdoors people. Recently I learned that there are actually little boxes hidden that you can go and discover. Some of them are small and just have a simple log book for you to sign. Others are big enough to place small items in.

The general idea for these items is if you want to take something then make sure that you leave something of equal or greater value. The items are small like toys, pencils, stickers, and sometimes a button or two. There are also these things called “travel bugs” that have a number on them. If you find one you are supposed to take it, go to the website and register that you have it, and then take it to a different box hidden in a different city.

So it is basically like a big treasure hunt. You go to the website, find some of the locations, then go out with the GPS in your phone and find their locations. For Nathan it is the coolest thing in the world, because he loves the little toys that he finds.

So on Monday I was feeling a little bored and decided to check this whole thing out. I took the boys and we went to a little place just off of the main road. When we were there we found our first travel bug and we were all hooked.

We went out again on Tuesday and then today we were in Columbus so we looked for a few more. We found a couple of cool ones as you can see from the pics.

This is the coolest cache we have found. The GPS lead us to this spot, but then we had to search for it. We found it underneath some concrete squares down in this retaining wall.

Noah sort of likes the idea of going treasure hunting, sort of, but he doesn’t get the whole leave something if you want to take something. He wants to take what we brought and all the stuff in the box too. But here he is with a gold coin.

  

This was a cool cache we found up in the woods off of a walking trail. The clue said that it was under an old paint can.

Nathan dug up the leaves under the can and found this little box. See it is full of little kid treasures, toys, play money, and stickers.