Our first cache! 8 Nov 2009
Dec 1st, 2009 by Stace
When Wes and I read about geocaching in February’s Ramblers magazine, we knew we’d love this spicy addition to our regular country walks. However, not having the technology, we put all thoughts of exciting treasure hunting aside. Enter gerrod.com, tech geek extraordinnaire! Reading about G&K’s geocaching adventures on gerrod.com for the past couple of months, we weren’t able to resist the lure of this new activity for any longer.
We still don’t have the GPS tech, but we were able to cheat a little, by starting with a city cache, and memorising the google map location and the hint before we left the house. The only downside is that city caches are usually nanos (tiny caches), so no chance for moving on any trackable items. In fact, the first cache we found was about the size of the middle joint on my pinky (or smaller than a 3D 5p coin, whichever you can picture easier!), it was a magnetic dot stuck on a well in the street. Seriously we were giggling like schoolkids when we eventually found it. This well is part of a series of well caches around Aberdeen (The Wells of Bon-Accord), and we will start to try and find them all.
Who knows, we may even get ourselves a GPS for Christmas, if we can wait that long! And yes it’s cold, maybe 6-8 degrees that day, Wes only took his gloves off to unscrew the tiny cap of the magnetic nano cache.
