February 5th, 2009 by Rich

This evening we placed our very first geocache! We started geocaching June 2007 and have now found 229 caches but to date have been a little slack at placing any. Well today we placed one, it’s called “Can U” find it? and you can find it on the geocaching site here.

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess that some of you reading this have no idea what geocaching is, so I shall try to explain….

Geocaching is essentially an electronic treasure hunt, a geocache is a container for which you have gps co-ordinates for (although sometimes you have to work out what they are as a puzzle.) You then use your gps unit to find the cache  where you will at minimum a log book to sign but depending on the size of the container, you will also find *stuff* (for the knowledgeable read as geo-tat! ) The idea with that is that if you take something out, you put something in.

To add to the “sport” (really lets face it, it ain’t a sport more of a past-time) you also get trackable items, these can either be in the form of special coins or (geocoins) or dog tags (travelbugs). These have unique tracking codes on them so you can place them in a cache for others to move on and log, this means you can track these items around the world. In our cache we placed today we also deposited two travelbugs which we are competing in a race with! Simplistically the race is to see which travelbug travels the furthest in a given time (I’d tell you the end date but memory failure is happening!).We have a whole blog dedicated to the race, if you are interested check it out here.

If my poorly worded description of geocaching has interested you at all and you want more info then do go and check out the official geocaching website.

On the allotment front, not quite sure what we will get done this coming weekend, the weather is still looking pretty cack and if it is frozen or snowy there will be little we can get on with which will be a bit of a pain to say the least!