Geocaching is hobby that we do as a family. It is kinda like a modern day orienteering but relies on GPS navigation rather then solely on compass work. I discovered the idea it a few years ago and we have found caches in many different places, every time we travel we find some either along the way or near where we are staying. We sometimes spend a whole day during the school holidays finding them in our local area or with my sister's family.It is a world wide hobby ( while we were in Jasper they advertised that they had some around town. but we without a GPS device we couldn't find them) and cost nothing except for the app for your phone (about $10) or if your keen, a hand held GPS device. The kids love it because sometimes there is "swaps" and it is challenging to find them, because they well hidden and often very small. It's amazing where you find them. Lots of the time we can be enjoying a picnic somewhere and there will be one hidden in the park, once one was only 5metres away from us. Other Geocaching teams hide the caches and set the location so they can be found, we love the creative hides even if they are the most frustrating (the one in the train track nail took at least 45 minutes to find!). I must admit I'm pretty sure we look like idiots while wandering around aimlessly looking at our phone, sometimes arguing about the direction we are heading, or bush bashing through scrub without a track obviously, heading in the wrong direction but we are having fun together and that's what life is all about.
Mumma Bear
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