Geocachers in all their glory

We have a Geocache in a small stand of trees in the field behind our house. Along with all the goodies inside for people to take and replace with interesting things of their own, we have a single-use camera for cache finders to take their own pictures with. We just processed the first one. Here's a link to a Quicktime slideshow of those shots.

http://tinyurl.com/5g9kq

What the hell is a geocache?

It's like, random people!

The one in the dark scares me.

I guess he wanted a greater challenge. In a couple of these, you can see our house in the background. Blue one, with a shed in the backyard.

I think it is kind of cool how you go through the seasons with these pics. We placed it in mid-November of last year, and I just took the camera our a couple of weeks ago.

We really enjoy doing this, although we've only found like four caches ourselves, and planted one.

Awesome, Elspode! I love the ones with the cameras!

I'm just waiting for the weather to cool down and the flood waters to receed before I pick up caching, again. I never thought I would find so many hidden parks in my area than I have through hunting for hidden ammo cans by GPS. :D

It *is* a terribly cool hobby, isn't it?

Horribly addictive. For awhile, I was looking forward to roadtrips just so I could haul travel bugs around and take pictures of them before dropping them off in the next cache. Its amazing to see how far those things get carried!

This little bunny has been nearly 8000 miles, having started in Hawaii, visiting Florida where I took him to Cape Canaveral, and then found his way up to Seattle and beyond.

And, yes, those hashbrowns are scattered, smothered, covered, and topped!

Is that you with the headband, Els? :confused:

Yep...I was testing the camera to make sure it still worked. It did. Not a very flattering angle for an old fat man, is it? That's actually an African patterned do-rag on my thinning, greying hair.

The inside of our Rubbermaid container got wet (someone was too lazy to reseal it properly), and the camera got damp. That's why some of the pictures have some interesting, odd patterns on them.

Kitsune wrote:

Horribly addictive. For awhile, I was looking forward to roadtrips just so I could haul travel bugs around and take pictures of them before dropping them off in the next cache. Its amazing to see how far those things get carried!

We just got our first Travel Bug and a GeoCoin in the mail last week. We're just planning a theme for the Bug before we release it in the wild.

(for those who don't know, a Travel Bug or GeoCoin are individually numbered items - the Travel Bug is basically a dogtag with a barcode on it - which you register online, and then track from cache to cache, much like a Where's George dollar. Come to think of it, Where's George dollars are very popular cache contents!)

This is cool! :biggrin: I've found some fellow cellerite-geocachers! I love to geocache! I got hooked ever since I stumbled upon one a mile from my house. Great pictures :thumbsup:

Hell there's even things hidden in my 1 hourse town. 39422 I never would have belived it. Thanks for this thread. BB

It really is a fabulous hobby, and this is the perfect time of the year to get into it. Noxious weeds are beginning to die off, the weather is mild, and GPS's are on sale in preparation for hunting season!

Just thought I'd pass it on that I read an article in the PARADE from this past Sunday's paper about geocaching. Made me wonder if Els would see an upswing in the # of people visiting his... I thought it was a really cool hobby in so many different ways.

I was more into benchmark-hunting, 'till I exhausted most of the local ones (many of which are buried or destroyed).

There's an apparently new benchmark on the Perkiomen Trail (Philadelphia suburbs), though.

Holy cow! I've got 126 Geocaches (geocachi?) within 15 miles. They could have been weapons of mass destruction, and me not even knowing they were there. :worried: