On the weekend we attempted our second try at "Geocaching".
What is Geocaching I hear you ask, its an outdoor treasure hunting game using a GPS enabled device. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at the location.
What is Geocaching I hear you ask, its an outdoor treasure hunting game using a GPS enabled device. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at the location.
Our first attempt failed at a different location because due to road works as we had taken the wrong road and we where unable to reach the desired coordinates.
This time we where determined to succeed on our second attempt. Our friends Tracy and David decided to come along to try their hand at their first ever turn at geocaching. Ben chose a location in the Terelj National Park from the website www.geocaching.com This time there where no road works so we got to the location ok and then had to walk abut 500 meters and try and find the container from the clues we are given for the location on the web site.
After doing some climbing it was Tracy who spotted the geocach and it was Paige who had the honor of opening the container to see what treasures we would find.
Ben wrote our details in the note book and we replaced the container back for the next people to find. We found business cards, a small rubber ball, pins and band-aids. It was wonderful to succeed and having Tracy and David enjoying the adventure with us was really fun not to mention the extra sets of eyes was really helpful.
After all the excitement we decided to go horse riding and find a spot to have our picnic. The weather was just perfect and its hard to believe winter will be here soon.
After doing some climbing it was Tracy who spotted the geocach and it was Paige who had the honor of opening the container to see what treasures we would find.
Ben wrote our details in the note book and we replaced the container back for the next people to find. We found business cards, a small rubber ball, pins and band-aids. It was wonderful to succeed and having Tracy and David enjoying the adventure with us was really fun not to mention the extra sets of eyes was really helpful.
After all the excitement we decided to go horse riding and find a spot to have our picnic. The weather was just perfect and its hard to believe winter will be here soon.
David, Paige and Ben heading towards the gps location
Up the rocks they go
Ben giving Paige a hand
Paige reaching for the container
Paige opening the container
Ben and David look on while Paige sees whats in the container
Ben recording our success in the note book
The view
Ben, Paige, Tracy and David celebrating success
Tracy, David and Paige head off horse riding
Happy trails to Paige, David and Ben
Paige enjoying horse riding
Bernadette horse riding
Picnic spot near the river
The river views
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