GeoCaching

Marky · 2 May 2011 at 12:51

Sounds like fun

Going to grab the app for my iPhone now

Vampire · 2 May 2011 at 12:56

Me and little'un got into doing this a few months back. She found it pretty exciting to start with, but quickly got miffed as the caches are often very well hidden. She gets angry if I find it before her, so I'm forever pretending not to find it and saying "hmm how about over there by the tree, no down the bottom, look under those leaves" etc.

We haven't been for a while, we found most of the ones within about 10 miles of where we live so we'll need to go further afield now.

Edit: The iPhone app (the paid one) is brilliant btw, that's what we use. Yes it cost around £5 but it's provided loads of entertainment and got us out on some nice walks.

vicisthebest · 2 May 2011 at 14:48

A woman at work does it a lot, really enjoys it. When you find one are you supposed to hide it again or leave it where it is and look for another one?

Vampire · 2 May 2011 at 14:56

vicisthebest said:
A woman at work does it a lot, really enjoys it. When you find one are you supposed to hide it again or leave it where it is and look for another one?

Hide it back where it was, so more Geocachers can find it - but not yoofs.

topgun06 · 2 May 2011 at 14:59

Yeah, hide it where you found it so others can find.

Edrof · 2 May 2011 at 15:21

First I've heard of this, sounds great! What kinds of things do you find?

Magic_x_uk · 2 May 2011 at 15:34

can i do this using a blackbery (8900)?

Begbie · 2 May 2011 at 15:40

I've done it before, cheated as managed to guess the last few co-ordinates and headed to the pub.

topgun06 · 2 May 2011 at 15:43

Magic_x_uk said:
can i do this using a blackbery (8900)?

If there's a blackberry app for it then I'm sure you could. Or just tap the co-ordinates into the GPS and follow it.

arknor · 2 May 2011 at 16:13

Biohazard said:
What's in the caches?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booby_trap

Vampire · 2 May 2011 at 16:30

The missus told me off for wanting to put a primed mousetrap in one. :mad:

marin · 2 May 2011 at 17:10

Found a GeoCach a while ago that had a small can inside it, I opened it and one of those joke snakes jumped out, almost jumped out of my skin!

Streeteh · 2 May 2011 at 17:11

Sounds like fun, will give it a go when i'm next in the mood for a walk.

ShaolinDreams · 2 May 2011 at 17:15

My dog geocached something in your garden

Thrash · 2 May 2011 at 17:15

Funnily enough found one yesterday, great excuse for a walk and quite often there's some historical significance to the cache.

Stretch · 2 May 2011 at 17:28

Apparently there's one just beyond the end of my garden.

craptakular · 2 May 2011 at 17:31

Are there any caches in majorca?

topgun06 · 2 May 2011 at 18:06

Probably.

Edit: Just had a quick search by entering the co-ordinates of central Majorca. It's come back with 284 results.