I am into a new hobby.... I just LOVE it

Geo-caching. Has anyone tried it? It really is so much fun. It is a treasure hunt and you would never believe these things are right under all of our noses! There will be atleast one, if not more, in just about ever state park out there. And not just in parks either! Most of them are on public land but there was one in my town that was even on private property (owner of course gave permission) What these treasure hunts are is simply people hiding waterproof containers around with little goodies in it. Mostly little trinkets, keychains, small toys things like that.
If your lucky, you will find one with a geo-coin or travel bug in it. These are so cool!  Each having their own code so they can be tracked. You take one out and then put it in someone elses "cache" So they actually travel all around. Even internationally! They have their own website so you can see where and how many miles they have traveled. My husband took one from our town and he is going to find a cache in Florida to drop it off. Some are very very small which only hold a log (you log your visit so the owner of the cache knows who stopped by) to one in our neighborhood was inside a regular garbage can! I have seen some on the web that are very tricky, like a pine cone was hallowed out and the log inserted then hung on a tree! It is nice that each geo cache is rated by how hard they are to find to even how bad the terrain is. So if your handicapped or maybe just don't feel like working hard for one, you can choose easier ones to find.
I have to say, it has been a great new hobby that my whole family LOVES doing together. And it is free!
Can't say that too much anymore about anything..LOL
I'll post some pictures!
Have a great day and I hope you give geo caching a try!!
Kathy
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The one above is the one inside the garbage can
The one below here is my son getting the cache out of a fence pole!
I personally would never of even tried to look there..haha

 

Here the kids and their friend are there with the cache. This was a cool one. The owner of the cache even included a camera so you could take a pic of yourself and then they posts it online under their cache information.

 
It sure is alot of fun!