Saturday, January 31, 2009

Geocache Me!

"We use billion dollar satellites to locate plastic containers on earth. What do you do?"

One thing my bf has always loved was the idea of geocaching! It's a modern day scavenger hunt with the use of a GPS =) The basic idea is- you search for a cache near you online, enter coordinates to GPS, find the location, search high and low to find a container, and upon success take something/ leave something behind for the owner =) Your success and all the visitors to your cache are tracked online.. and you can comment on the caches left behind by others.

So we embarked on our first journey today to High Park- where we successfully found a hidden box containing all sorts of goodies (what they were I will not mention, in case there are any geocachers around lol).

There was so much drama looking for it.. the most common phrases said were ..'are we walking in circles?', 'NO. Let me see it now', 'you're holding it wrong'.. and the most popular 'Look! Over there.. ahhh that's not it'. Haha. It was fun scavenging in the snow too!

Here are some pictures of our first find:


If you click on the title of this post, you will be re-directed to the global geo-cache website.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good job guys!
a frnd of mine is into this thing, i havent tried it. I wouldn't go with my gf tho- you're very brave.

Anonymous said...

OMG! That's sooooo cool! I just might have to join in.